Unfortunately, up until now, the fact that certain checkers depended on one
another was known, but how these actually unfolded was hidden deep within the
implementation. For example, many checkers (like RetainCount, Malloc or CString)
modelled a certain functionality, and exposed certain reportable bug types to
the user. For example, while MallocChecker models many many different types of
memory handling, the actual "unix.MallocChecker" checker the user was exposed to
was merely and option to this modeling part.
Other than this being an ugly mess, this issue made resolving the checker naming
issue almost impossible. (The checker naming issue being that if a checker
registered more than one checker within its registry function, both checker
object recieved the same name) Also, if the user explicitly disabled a checker
that was a dependency of another that _was_ explicitly enabled, it implicitly,
without "telling" the user, reenabled it.
Clearly, changing this to a well structured, declarative form, where the
handling of dependencies are done on a higher level is very much preferred.
This patch, among the detailed things later, makes checkers declare their
dependencies within the TableGen file Checkers.td, and exposes the same
functionality to plugins and statically linked non-generated checkers through
CheckerRegistry::addDependency. CheckerRegistry now resolves these dependencies,
makes sure that checkers are added to CheckerManager in the correct order,
and makes sure that if a dependency is disabled, so will be every checker that
depends on it.
In detail:
* Add a new field to the Checker class in CheckerBase.td called Dependencies,
which is a list of Checkers.
* Move unix checkers before cplusplus, as there is no forward declaration in
tblgen :/
* Add the following new checkers:
- StackAddrEscapeBase
- StackAddrEscapeBase
- CStringModeling
- DynamicMemoryModeling (base of the MallocChecker family)
- IteratorModeling (base of the IteratorChecker family)
- ValistBase
- SecuritySyntaxChecker (base of bcmp, bcopy, etc...)
- NSOrCFErrorDerefChecker (base of NSErrorChecker and CFErrorChecker)
- IvarInvalidationModeling (base of IvarInvalidation checker family)
- RetainCountBase (base of RetainCount and OSObjectRetainCount)
* Clear up and registry functions in MallocChecker, happily remove old FIXMEs.
* Add a new addDependency function to CheckerRegistry.
* Neatly format RUN lines in files I looked at while debugging.
Big thanks to Artem Degrachev for all the guidance through this project!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54438
llvm-svn: 352287
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
For InnerPointerChecker to function properly, both the checker itself
and parts of MallocChecker that handle relevant use-after-free problems
need to be turned on. So far, the latter part has been developed within
MallocChecker's NewDelete sub-checker, often causing warnings to appear
under that name. This patch defines a new CheckKind within MallocChecker
for the inner pointer checking functionality, so that the correct name
is displayed in warnings and in the ExplodedGraph.
Tested on clang-tidy.
Differential Review: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50211
llvm-svn: 339067
it aware of CString APIs that return the input parameter.
Malloc Checker needs to know how the 'strcpy' function is
evaluated. Introduce the dependency on CStringChecker for that.
CStringChecker knows all about these APIs.
Addresses radar://10864450
llvm-svn: 150846
Kristof Umann