[PATCH] Introduce two command-line flags for the instrumentation pass to control whether the labels of pointers should be ignored in load and store instructions

Peter Collingbourne peter at pcc.me.uk
Fri Nov 15 16:08:51 PST 2013



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Comment at: lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp:522
@@ -507,2 +521,3 @@
   if (Function *F = dyn_cast<Function>(DFSanUnionLoadFn)) {
+    F->addAttribute(AttributeSet::FunctionIndex, Attribute::ReadNone);
     F->addAttribute(AttributeSet::ReturnIndex, Attribute::ZExt);
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This isn't correct.  __dfsan_union_load reads from shadow memory.  Maybe you meant "readonly"?

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Comment at: lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp:102
@@ +101,3 @@
+static cl::opt<bool> ClIgnorePointerLabelOnLoad(
+    "dfsan-ignore-pointer-label-on-load",
+    cl::desc("Ignore the label of the pointer when loading data from memory."),
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I'd rather these options not involve a double negative if we want to enable label combining.  How about calling them -dfsan-combine-pointer-labels-on-* ?


http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2187



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