[llvm-branch-commits] [clang] [AllocToken, Clang] Implement TypeHashPointerSplit mode (PR #156840)

Hans Wennborg via llvm-branch-commits llvm-branch-commits at lists.llvm.org
Tue Sep 23 06:37:53 PDT 2025


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@@ -1272,18 +1272,84 @@ void CodeGenFunction::EmitBoundsCheckImpl(const Expr *E, llvm::Value *Bound,
   EmitCheck(std::make_pair(Check, CheckKind), CheckHandler, StaticData, Index);
 }
 
+static bool
+typeContainsPointer(QualType T,
+                    llvm::SmallPtrSet<const RecordDecl *, 4> &VisitedRD,
+                    bool &IncompleteType) {
+  QualType CanonicalType = T.getCanonicalType();
+  if (CanonicalType->isPointerType())
+    return true; // base case
+
+  // Look through typedef chain to check for special types.
+  for (QualType CurrentT = T; const auto *TT = CurrentT->getAs<TypedefType>();
+       CurrentT = TT->getDecl()->getUnderlyingType()) {
+    const IdentifierInfo *II = TT->getDecl()->getIdentifier();
+    if (!II)
+      continue;
+    // Special Case: Syntactically uintptr_t is not a pointer; semantically,
+    // however, very likely used as such. Therefore, classify uintptr_t as a
+    // pointer, too.
+    if (II->isStr("uintptr_t"))
+      return true;
+  }
+
+  // The type is an array; check the element type.
+  if (const ArrayType *AT = dyn_cast<ArrayType>(CanonicalType))
+    return typeContainsPointer(AT->getElementType(), VisitedRD, IncompleteType);
+  // The type is a struct, class, or union.
+  if (const RecordDecl *RD = CanonicalType->getAsRecordDecl()) {
+    if (!RD->isCompleteDefinition()) {
+      IncompleteType = true;
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (!VisitedRD.insert(RD).second)
+      return false; // already visited
+    // Check all fields.
+    for (const FieldDecl *Field : RD->fields()) {
+      if (typeContainsPointer(Field->getType(), VisitedRD, IncompleteType))
+        return true;
+    }
+    // For C++ classes, also check base classes.
+    if (const CXXRecordDecl *CXXRD = dyn_cast<CXXRecordDecl>(RD)) {
+      // Polymorphic types require a vptr.
+      if (CXXRD->isPolymorphic())
+        return true;
+      for (const CXXBaseSpecifier &Base : CXXRD->bases()) {
+        if (typeContainsPointer(Base.getType(), VisitedRD, IncompleteType))
+          return true;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
 void CodeGenFunction::EmitAllocToken(llvm::CallBase *CB, QualType AllocType) {
   assert(SanOpts.has(SanitizerKind::AllocToken) &&
          "Only needed with -fsanitize=alloc-token");
 
+  llvm::MDBuilder MDB(getLLVMContext());
+
+  // Get unique type name.
   PrintingPolicy Policy(CGM.getContext().getLangOpts());
   Policy.SuppressTagKeyword = true;
   Policy.FullyQualifiedName = true;
   std::string TypeName = AllocType.getCanonicalType().getAsString(Policy);
-  auto *TypeMDS = llvm::MDString::get(CGM.getLLVMContext(), TypeName);
+  auto *TypeNameMD = MDB.createString(TypeName);
+
+  // Check if QualType contains a pointer. Implements a simple DFS to
+  // recursively check if a type contains a pointer type.
+  llvm::SmallPtrSet<const RecordDecl *, 4> VisitedRD;
+  bool IncompleteType = false;
+  const bool ContainsPtr =
+      typeContainsPointer(AllocType, VisitedRD, IncompleteType);
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zmodem wrote:

This seems potentially slow, as we might walk a lot of big types many times. Have you seen any indication of this when testing? Should we be caching? Could it be represented directly in the AST?

I'd be curious to hear @ojhunt 's thoughts since it sounds like they have something like this already.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/156840


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