Summary:
This diff lifts the `PulseAbductiveDomain.t` in `PulseExecutionState` by tracking whether the program continues the analysis normally or exits unusually (e.g. by calling `exit` or `throw`):
```
type exec_state =
| ContinueProgram of PulseAbductiveDomain.t (** represents the state at the program point *)
| ExitProgram of PulseAbductiveDomain.t
(** represents the state originating at exit/divergence. *)
```
Now, Pulse's actual domain is tracked by `PulseExecutionState` and as soon as we try to analyze an instruction at `ExitProgram`, we simply return its state.
The aim is to recover the state at the time of the exit, rather than simply ignoring them (i.e. returning empty disjuncts). This allows us to get rid of some FNs that we were not able to detect before. Moreover, it also allows the impurity analysis to be more precise since we will know how the state changed up to exit.
TODO:
- Impurity analysis needs to be improved to consider functions that simply exit as impure.
- The next goal is to handle error state similarly so that when pulse finds an error, we recover the state at the error location (and potentially continue to analyze?).
Disclaimer: currently, we handle throw statements like exit (as was the case before). However, this is not correct. Ideally, control flow from throw nodes follows catch nodes rather than exiting the program entirely.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D20791747
fbshipit-source-id: df9e5445a
Summary:
- Model `System.exit()` as early_exit and add a test
- Tweak message of methods that are impure due to having no pulse summary (and add a test)
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D20668979
fbshipit-source-id: 6b5589aae
Summary:
As exemplified by added tests, pulse computes an empty summary (with 0 disjuncts) whenever it discovers a contradiction which might be caused by:
- discovering aliasing in memory
- widening limited number of times in loops and concluding that loop exit conditions are never taken
However, AFAIU, it is not possible to have a function with 0 disjunct apart from such anomalities. Even a function which does nothing like `void foo(){}` has 1 disjuncts:
```
Pulse: 1 pre/post(s)
#0: PRE:
{ roots={ };
mem ={ };
attrs={ };}
POST:
{ roots={ };
mem ={ };
attrs={ };}
SKIPPED_CALLS: { }
```
The aim of this diff is to consider functions with 0 disjuncts as **impure** because most often such cases are impure, rather than actually pure.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D20619504
fbshipit-source-id: 3a8502c90
Summary:
Previously, at each function call, we added a `WrittenTo` attribute for applying the address of the actuals. However, this results in mistakenly considering each function application that inspects its argument as impure. Instead, we should only propagate `WrittenTo` if the actuals have already `WrittenTo` attributes.
For instance, for the following functions
```
public static boolean is_null(Byte a) {
return a == null;
}
public static boolean call_is_null(Byte a) {
return is_null(a);
}
```
We used to get the following pulse summary for `call_is_null` (showing only one of the disjuncts):
```
#0: PRE:
{ roots={ &a=v1 };
mem ={ v1 -> { * -> v2 } };
attrs={ v1 -> { MustBeValid },
v2 -> { Arith =null, BoItv ([max(0, v2), min(0, v2)]) } };}
POST:
{ roots={ &a=v1, &return=v8 };
mem ={ v1 -> { * -> v2 }, v8 -> { * -> v4 } };
attrs={ v2 -> { Arith =null,
BoItv ([max(0, v2), min(0, v2)]),
WrittenTo-----------WRONG },
v4 -> { Arith =1,
BoItv (1),
Invalid ConstantDereference(is the constant 1),
WrittenTo-----------WRONG },
v8 -> { WrittenTo } };}
SKIPPED_CALLS: { }
```
where we mistakenly recorded a `WrittenTo` for `v2` (what `a` points to). As a result, we considered `call_is_null` as impure :( This diff fixes that since the callee `is_null` doesn't have any `WrittenTo` attributes for its parameter `a`. So, we don't propagate `WrittenTo` and get the following summary
```
#0: PRE:
{ roots={ &a=v1 };
mem ={ v1 -> { * -> v2 } };
attrs={ v1 -> { MustBeValid },
v2 -> { Arith =null, BoItv ([max(0, v2), min(0, v2)]) } };}
POST:
{ roots={ &a=v1, &return=v8 };
mem ={ v1 -> { * -> v2 }, v8 -> { * -> v4 } };
attrs={ v2 -> { Arith =null, BoItv ([max(0, v2), min(0, v2)]) },
v4 -> { Arith =1,
BoItv (1),
Invalid ConstantDereference(is the constant 1) },
v8 -> { WrittenTo } };}
SKIPPED_CALLS: { }
```
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D20490102
fbshipit-source-id: 253d8ef64
Summary:
Impurity domain was tracking all changes to variables (with a list of traces that containing all write/invalid accesses). This results in having long traces with multiple access events for the same variable. For instance,
```
void swap_impure(int[] array, int i, int j) {
int tmp = array[i];
array[i] = array[j]; \\ included in the trace
array[j] = tmp; \\ included in the trace
}
```
here we recorded both array accesses.
This diff changes the domain to include accesses so that we only keep track of a single trace per access. Array accesses are only recorded once.
Note that we want to record all unique accesses, not just the first one, because impurity will be used for hoisting/cost where we will invalidate impure arguments and consider all the rest as not changing.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D20385745
fbshipit-source-id: d3647dad3
Summary:
D20362149 missed
- to pass the optional argument `include_value_history` to the recursive call in `PulseTrace.add_to_errlog`.
- to set `include_value_history=false` for skipped calls.
This diff fixes these issues.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D20385604
fbshipit-source-id: 176e4d010
Summary: Impurity traces are quite big due to recording values histories. Let's simplify the traces by removing pulse's value histories.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D20362149
fbshipit-source-id: 8a2a6115e
Summary:
Currently, impurity analysis is oblivious to skipped functions which might e.g. return a non-deterministic value, write to memory or have some other side-effect. This diff fixes that by relying on Pulse's skipped functions to determine impurity. Any unknown function which is not modeled to be pure is assumed to be impure.
This is a heuristic. We could have assumed them to be pure by default as well.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D19428514
fbshipit-source-id: 82efe04f9
Summary:
This gets rid of false positives when something invalid (eg null) is
passed by reference to an initialisation function. Havoc'ing what the
contents of the pointer to results in being optimistic about said
contents in the future.
Also surprisingly gets rid of some FNs (which means it can also
introduce FPs) in the `std::atomic` tests because a path condition
becomes feasible with havoc'ing.
There's a slight refinement possible where we don't havoc pointers to
const but that's more involved and left as future work.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D18726203
fbshipit-source-id: 264b5daeb
Summary:
Previously, we considered a function which modifies its parameters to be impure even though it might not be modifying the underlying value. This resulted in FPs like the following program in Java:
```
void fresh_pure(int[] a) {
a = new int[1];
}
```
Similarly, in C++, we considered the following program as impure because it was writing to `s`:
```
Simple* reassign_pure(Simple* s) {
s = new Simple{2};
return s;
}
```
This diff fixes that issue by starting the check for address equivalnce in pre-post not directly from the addresses of the stack variables, but from the addresses pointed to by these stack variables. That means, we only consider things to be impure if the actual values pointed by the parameters change.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D18113846
fbshipit-source-id: 3d7c712f3
Summary:
bigmacro_bender
There are 3 ways pulse tracks history. This is at least one too many. So
far, we have:
1. "histories": a humble list of "events" like "assigned here", "returned from call", ...
2. "interproc actions": a structured nesting of calls with a final "action", eg "f calls g calls h which does blah"
3. "traces", which combine one history with one interproc action
This diff gets rid of interproc actions and makes histories include
"nested" callee histories too. This allows pulse to track and display
how a value got assigned across function calls.
Traces are now more powerful and interleave histories and interproc
actions. This allows pulse to track how a value is fed into an action,
for instance performed in callee, which itself creates some more
(potentially now interprocedural) history before going to the next step
of the action (either another call or the action itself).
This gives much better traces, and some examples are added to showcase
this.
There are a lot of changes when applying summaries to keep track of
histories more accurately than was done before, but also a few
simplifications that give additional evidence that this is the right
concept.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D17908942
fbshipit-source-id: 3b62eaf78
Summary:
Instead of a string argument named `~str` pass `Formal | Global` and let
`add_to_errlog` figure out how to print it.
Reviewed By: ezgicicek
Differential Revision: D17907657
fbshipit-source-id: ed09aab72
Summary: If we have no pulse summary (most likely caused by pulse finding a legit issue with the code), let's consider the function as impure.
Reviewed By: jvillard
Differential Revision: D17906016
fbshipit-source-id: 671d3e0ba
Summary:
Unfortunately it is very hard to predict when
`Typ.Procname.describe` will add `()` after the function name, so we
cannot make sure it is always there.
Right now we report clowny stuff like "error while calling `foo()()`",
which this change fixes.
Reviewed By: ezgicicek
Differential Revision: D17665470
fbshipit-source-id: ef290d9c0
Summary:
Introduce a new experimental checker (`--impurity`) that detects
impurity information, tracking which parameters and global variables
of a function are modified. The checker relies on Pulse to detect how
the state changes: it traverses the pre and post pairs starting from
the parameter/global variable and finds where the pre and post heaps
diverge. At diversion points, we expect to see WrittenTo/Invalid attributes
containing a trace of how the address was modified. We use these to
construct the trace of impurity.
This checker is a complement to the purity checker that exists mainly
for Java (and used for cost and loop-hoisting analyses). The aim of
this new experimental checker is to rely on Pulse's precise
memory treatment and come up with a more precise im(purity)
analysis. To distinguish the two checkers, we introduce a new issue
type `IMPURE_FUNCTION` that reports when a function is impure, rather
than when it is pure (as in the purity checker).
TODO:
- improve the analysis to rely on impurity information of external
library calls. Currently, all library calls are assumed to be nops,
hence pure.
- de-entangle Pulse reporting from analysis.
Reviewed By: skcho
Differential Revision: D17051567
fbshipit-source-id: 5e10afb4f
Ezgi Çiçek
Jules Villard