<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Robinson, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.robinson@sony.com" target="_blank">paul.robinson@sony.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">It might be a wider problem than libfuzzer. I did want to raise the problem asap and libfuzzer is something we know has the problem.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If it came across as "libfuzzer is evil" that was not my intent, sorry!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div>No, no, I did not mean you implied that :) </div><div>Just wanted to make sure everyone understand that this is not libFuzzer-specific. </div><div><br></div><div>Looking at lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/SanitizerCoverage.cpp:</div><div><div> DebugLoc EntryLoc;</div><div> if (IsEntryBB) {</div><div> if (auto SP = F.getSubprogram())</div><div> EntryLoc = DebugLoc::get(SP->getScopeLine(), 0, SP);</div><div>...</div><div> } else {<br></div><div> EntryLoc = IP->getDebugLoc();</div><div> }</div></div><div><div> IRBuilder<> IRB(&*IP);</div><div> IRB.SetCurrentDebugLocation(EntryLoc);</div></div><div><br></div><div>So, using this I assumed that the newly generated instructions have proper debug info, </div><div>and so far it worked. </div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if you can re-commit your changes under a flag, off-by default, so that everyone interested can play with it? </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-3330181366314494229WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="m_-3330181366314494229__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">--paulr<u></u><u></u></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"> Kostya Serebryany [mailto:<a href="mailto:kcc@google.com" target="_blank">kcc@google.com</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] Libfuzzer depending on uninitialized debug info<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Robinson, Paul via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" target="_blank">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TL;DR: LibFuzzer appears to depend on debug-info source locations for<br>
whatever IR instrumentation it uses; however, that instrumentation does<br>
not have proper source locations attached to it, leading to potentially<br>
incorrect reporting. The short-term fix is to make sure the debug info<br>
it needs is actually set up; the long-term fix is not to rely on debug<br>
info, because some optimizations will (correctly) erase it.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">tests that required debug info. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any tool that needs debug info will suffer from the same problem. No? <u></u><u></u></p>
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The long version:<br>
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When Clang generates IR with debug info, one thing it does is attach a<br>
source location to most IR instructions. This source location (at least<br>
in principle) is carried through optimizations, SelectionDAG, MachineIR,<br>
assembler source, and ultimately ends up in the "line table" in the<br>
object file. The line table describes a mapping from the virtual<br>
addresses of instructions to source locations, which is very useful to<br>
debuggers and other tools.<br>
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Not all IR instructions have a source location attached to them. When<br>
that happens, no specific line-table record is emitted for any machine<br>
instruction produced from that IR instruction. In DWARF, that means you<br>
assume the instruction belongs to the same source location as the<br>
instruction that precedes it in memory.<br>
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This is a problem when the first instruction in a machine-basic-block has<br>
no explicit source location, because it implicitly inherits the source<br>
location of the last instruction of the basic block that precedes it in<br>
memory. That means, the source location is entirely at the mercy of<br>
block layout and other optimizations.<br>
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In effect, the source location for that instruction is UNINITIALIZED.<br>
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In r288283, I committed a patch that explicitly initialized the line<br>
number for some instructions to line 0. The DWARF spec says that line 0<br>
means there is no specific source location for the instruction. Debuggers<br>
and other tools generally respond to this looking *forward* in the<br>
instruction stream to find the *next* instruction with an explicit non-0<br>
location, rather than backward to the *previous* instruction with an<br>
explicit location.<br>
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This caused a libFuzzer test to fail, because it depended on seeing a<br>
real source location for something, and got line 0 instead. This tells<br>
me libFuzzer is depending on an uninitialized source location. Kostya<br>
backed out that patch for me, but we really want to have it for improved<br>
debugger single-stepping behavior.<br>
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I am unclear on what instrumentation the fuzzer is using, although the<br>
instructions for building it suggest it's ASAN instrumentation. Whatever<br>
it is, either the instrumentation should use its own source-location<br>
information scheme, or it should initialize the debug info that it is<br>
depending on.<br>
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Note that debug info is not necessarily reliable in the face of<br>
optimization. If two blocks with different source locations get merged,<br>
most likely the source location will be zeroed (and that's not my patch,<br>
that's optimization-specific behavior). Therefore, I would recommend<br>
that fuzzer/asan/whoever stop relying on debug info for source locations,<br>
if we want all that to work on optimized code.<br>
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In the short term it's probably easier to find places where the<br>
instrumentation is missing debug info, and add it. But that's not going<br>
to be reliable for optimized code.<br>
--paulr<br>
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