[LLVMdev] Debug Info and DFSan

Peter Collingbourne peter at pcc.me.uk
Tue Oct 7 14:51:38 PDT 2014


Looks good, thanks!

Can you write the test case, please? You probably have more experience
writing debug info tests than I do.

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 02:35:49PM -0700, David Blaikie wrote:
> Here's a basic patch which would solve it in sort of the same way as the
> other optimizations I was fixing (just special case the debug info & fix it
> up). I can work up a test case for this as well, or you can, if you
> like/this seems reasonable.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 12:20:55PM -0700, David Blaikie wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:18 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:10 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk
> > >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:04:30AM -0700, David Blaikie wrote:
> > > >>> > Hi Peter,
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > After discovering several bugs in ArgumentPromotion and
> > > >>> > DeadArgumentElimination where llvm::Functions were replaced with
> > > >>> similar
> > > >>> > functions (with the same name) to transform their type in some
> > way, I
> > > >>> > started looking at all calls to llvm::Function::takeName to see if
> > > >>> there
> > > >>> > were any other debug info quality bugs in similar callers.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > One such caller is the DataFlowSanitizer, and I don't see any debug
> > > >>> info
> > > >>> > tests for this so I'm wondering what /should/ happen here.
> > > >>> >
> > > >>> > Is DFSan+DebugInfo something that matters? I assume so.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> It may be important in the future, but at the moment the dfsan
> > runtime
> > > >>> library
> > > >>> does not make use of debug info. The debug info could still be
> > useful for
> > > >>> regular debugging tasks though.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yeah - that'd be the baseline. I assume some people probably care
> > about
> > > >> being able to debug a dfsan binary. Not sure if your users have
> > > >> specifically highlighted this situation or come across the bugs I'm
> > > >> speculating about.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> > It looks like DFSan is creating wrappers (in/around
> > > >>> > DataFlowSanitizer.cpp:680-700) - when it does this, should it
> > update
> > > >>> the
> > > >>> > debug info for these functions? Or are these internal
> > instrumentation
> > > >>> > functions & nothing to do with the code the user wrote? I can't
> > quite
> > > >>> tell
> > > >>> > from the code.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The functions created by that part of the code replace the original
> > > >>> functions,
> > > >>> so they should inherit the debug info for those functions.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yep, that won't happen for free - we have to stitch it back into the
> > > >> debug info.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> But the code below that can also create wrapper functions which do
> > not
> > > >>> need
> > > >>> debug info (lines 712-746). Wrappers normally show up for
> > uninstrumented
> > > >>> functions (e.g. main and many libc functions).
> > > >>>
> > > >>> > Could you provide any C/C++ source examples whis part of DFSan
> > fires
> > > >>> > reliably, so I could experiment with some examples and see how the
> > > >>> debug
> > > >>> > info looks?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> This is an example of a program that exercises the replacement
> > function
> > > >>> and
> > > >>> wrapper features.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>> #include <stddef.h>
> > > >>> #include <string.h>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> size_t len(size_t (*strlen_ptr)(const char *), const char *str) {
> > > >>>   return strlen_ptr(str);
> > > >>> }
> > > >>>
> > > >>> int main(void) {
> > > >>>   return len(strlen, "foo");
> > > >>> }
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >>>
> > > >>> In this example, 'len' is rewritten to 'dfs$len', 'main' keeps its
> > > >>> original
> > > >>> name (the pass treats it as an uninstrumented function), and
> > wrappers are
> > > >>> created for 'main' and 'strlen' (the wrapper for 'main' is unused as
> > the
> > > >>> C runtime calls the regular 'main' function directly).
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> OK, so when you say wrappers are created - where does the name go?
> > "main"
> > > >> keeps the name? (it's important which way this transformation is done
> > - if
> > > >> the guts of main are moved to a new function and the name moved as
> > well,
> > > >> that's not the same as keeping the same function as far as debug info
> > > >> metadata is concerned)
> >
> > In this case the function keeps its original name and the wrapper is
> > created
> > separately.
> >
> > > >>> I compile this with '-O0 -g'. A 'break main'/'run'/'break
> > strlen'/'cont'
> > > >>> gives a relevant stack trace:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> #0  __strlen_sse2_pminub () at
> > > >>> ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strlen-sse2-pminub.S:33
> > > >>> #1  0x00005555555587ff in __dfsw_strlen (s=0x55555556fe17 "foo",
> > > >>> s_label=<optimized out>, ret_label=0x7fffffffddee)
> > > >>>     at llvm/projects/compiler-rt/lib/dfsan/dfsan_custom.cc:203
> > > >>> #2  0x000055555556bbdc in dfsw$strlen ()
> > > >>> #3  0x000055555556bb51 in len (strlen_ptr=0x55555556bbc0
> > <dfsw$strlen>,
> > > >>> str=0x55555556fe17 "foo") at strlen.c:5
> > > >>> #4  0x000055555556bb96 in main ()
> > > >>>
> > > >>> In this stack trace, #2 is the compiler-generated wrapper function
> > for
> > > >>> strlen.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> It looks like the debug info for 'len' is preserved correctly, but I
> > > >>> don't
> > > >>> know why the debug info for 'main' is missing.
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Yeah - not quite sure either. I'll poke around with it for a little
> > bit.
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > DataFlowSanitizer.cpp:719: F.replaceAllUsesWith(WrappedFnCst);
> > > >
> > > > replaces the debug info metadata's pointer to main with a pointer to
> > > > dfsw$main (this issue doesn't come up with DAE or ArgPromo because they
> > > > both don
> > > >
> > >
> > > ... they both don't use RAUW because they have to visit each call site to
> > > do special stuff anyway. (they're replacing one function with another of
> > a
> > > different type, RAUW isn't suitable)
> > >
> > > I /guess/ we never end up codegen'ing dfsw$main? (I haven't looked) and
> > > thus the debug info doesn't describe any function at all. It's possible
> > > that there's some other reason we don't end up describing any function at
> > > all...
> > >
> > > In any case if we did have "main" in the debug info describe a function,
> > at
> > > this point, it would be describing the dfsw$main, not main main. So we'd
> > > need to handle remapping the debug info back to the original
> > uninstrumented
> > > function anyway, I assume? (that's the expected behavior? That the
> > > uninstrumented function is the one described by debug info, not the
> > > instrumented wrapper?)
> >
> > Yes, the debug info describes 'main', not 'dfsw$main'. So I agree that
> > the references in the debug info would need to refer to 'main' instead of
> > 'dfsw$main'. Not sure if there is a good way to do that. Perhaps we could
> > manually RAUW and skip metadata, but I'm not sure if that would work if the
> > debug metadata is not a direct user.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Peter
> >

> diff --git lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
> index 446bcf7..cb84fd6 100644
> --- lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
> +++ lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
> @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
>  #include "llvm/ADT/StringExtras.h"
>  #include "llvm/Analysis/ValueTracking.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/Dominators.h"
> +#include "llvm/IR/DebugInfo.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/InlineAsm.h"
>  #include "llvm/IR/InstVisitor.h"
> @@ -243,6 +244,7 @@ class DataFlowSanitizer : public ModulePass {
>    DFSanABIList ABIList;
>    DenseMap<Value *, Function *> UnwrappedFnMap;
>    AttributeSet ReadOnlyNoneAttrs;
> +  DenseMap<const Function *, DISubprogram> FunctionDIs;
>  
>    Value *getShadowAddress(Value *Addr, Instruction *Pos);
>    bool isInstrumented(const Function *F);
> @@ -573,6 +575,8 @@ bool DataFlowSanitizer::runOnModule(Module &M) {
>    if (ABIList.isIn(M, "skip"))
>      return false;
>  
> +  FunctionDIs = makeSubprogramMap(M);
> +
>    if (!GetArgTLSPtr) {
>      Type *ArgTLSTy = ArrayType::get(ShadowTy, 64);
>      ArgTLS = Mod->getOrInsertGlobal("__dfsan_arg_tls", ArgTLSTy);
> @@ -725,6 +729,12 @@ bool DataFlowSanitizer::runOnModule(Module &M) {
>        Value *WrappedFnCst =
>            ConstantExpr::getBitCast(NewF, PointerType::getUnqual(FT));
>        F.replaceAllUsesWith(WrappedFnCst);
> +
> +      // Patch the pointer to LLVM function in debug info descriptor.
> +      auto DI = FunctionDIs.find(&F);
> +      if (DI != FunctionDIs.end())
> +        DI->second.replaceFunction(&F);
> +
>        UnwrappedFnMap[WrappedFnCst] = &F;
>        *i = NewF;
>  


-- 
Peter



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