In the current implementation, we run visitors until the fixed point is
reached.
That is, if a visitor adds another visitor, the currently processed path
is destroyed, all diagnostics is discarded, and it is regenerated again,
until it's no longer modified.
This pattern has a few negative implications:
- This loop does not even guarantee to terminate.
E.g. just imagine two visitors bouncing a diagnostics around.
- Performance-wise, e.g. for sqlite3 all visitors are being re-run at
least 10 times for some bugs.
We have already seen a few reports where it leads to timeouts.
- If we want to add more computationally intense visitors, this will
become worse.
- From architectural standpoint, the current layout requires copying
visitors, which is conceptually wrong, and can be annoying (e.g. no
unique_ptr on visitors allowed).
The proposed change is a much simpler architecture: the outer loop
processes nodes upwards, and whenever the visitor is added it only
processes current nodes and above, thus guaranteeing termination.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47856
llvm-svn: 335666
Pointer arithmetic on null or undefined pointers results in null or undefined
pointers. This is obvious for undefined pointers; for null pointers it follows
from our incorrect-but-somehow-working approach that declares that 0 (Loc)
doesn't necessarily represent a pointer of numeric address value 0, but instead
it represents any pointer that will cause a valid "null pointer dereference"
issue when dereferenced.
For now we've been seeing through pointer arithmetic at the original dereference
expression, i.e. in bugreporter::getDerefExpr(), but not during further
investigation of the value's origins in bugreporter::trackNullOrUndefValue().
The patch fixes it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45071
llvm-svn: 328896
This function can now track null pointer through simple pointer arithmetic,
such as '*&*(p + 2)' => 'p' and so on, displaying intermediate diagnostic pieces
for the user to understand where the null pointer is coming from.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37025
llvm-svn: 314290
This API is used by checkers (and other entities) in order to track where does
a value originate from, by jumping from an expression value of which is equal
to that value to the expression from which this value has "appeared". For
example, it may be an lvalue from which the rvalue was loaded, or a function
call from which the dereferenced pointer was returned.
The function now avoids incorrectly unwrapping implicit lvalue-to-rvalue casts,
which caused crashes and incorrect intermediate diagnostic pieces. It also no
longer relies on how the expression is written when guessing what it means.
Fixes pr34373 and pr34731.
rdar://problem/33594502
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37023
llvm-svn: 314287
George Karpenkov