[LLVMdev] Unifying TSan blacklist and no_sanitize_thread

[Alexey Samsonov]

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Evgeniy Stepanov <eugeni.stepanov at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Alexey Samsonov <vonosmas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I consider reducing the usage of blacklist in sanitizer instrumentation
> > passes and doing the necessary work in frontend (Clang) instead.
> >
> > Some of it is already implemented: e.g. Clang will attach an attribute
> > "sanitize_address" to function definition only if this function is not
> > blacklisted. In this case we won't instrument the memory accesses in this
> > function in ASan instrumentation pass, so there's no need to looking at
> > blacklist once again.
> >
> > TSan pass does the following:
> >
> > 1) instruments plain memory accesses
> > 2) instruments atomic accesses
> > 3) instruments memory intrinsics calls.
> > 4) adds function entry/exit callbacks.
> >
> > If a function doesn't have sanitize_thread attribute (e.g. it was
> annotated
> > with __attribute__((no_sanitize_thread)) ), then it still does (2), (3)
> and
> > (4). If a function is blacklisted,
> > TSan pass does nothing. Shouldn't the behavior be the same? I think, we
> must
> > always do (4) to get
> > good stack traces, and probably do (2) (we may report races on atomics in
> > this case, but otherwise
> > we may miss synchronization). Thoughts?
>
> I don't think we should do (2).
>
> Sounds like your plan would let us drop blacklist from *SanitizerPass
> arguments, right? That's great.
>

Yes. We can already do that for TSan and MSan - sanitize_memory and
sanitize_thread
attrs are not added to functions by Clang if the functions are blacklisted.
There's still some
stuff to do in ASan w.r.t. global variables.

BTW, are we still interested in having "-mllvm -msan-blacklist" and "-mllvm
-tsan-blacklist",
or we may kill these flags as well, and rely only on a frontend Clang
compiler flag?


>
>
> >
> > --
> > Alexey Samsonov
> > vonosmas at gmail.com
>



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Alexey Samsonov
vonosmas at gmail.com
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