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[PATCH 08/10] test-lib: have the "check" mode for SANITIZE=leak consider leak logs

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2022, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID
<patch-08.10-afbb7e19195-20220719T205710Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<cover-00.10-00000000000-20220719T205710Z-avarab@gmail.com>

As noted in previous on-list discussions[1] we have various tests that will falsely report being leak-free because we're missing the relevant exit code from LSAN as summarized below.

We should fix those issues, but in the meantime and as an additional sanity check we can and should consider our own ASAN logs before reporting that a test is leak-free.

Before this compiling with SANITIZE=leak and running:
    ./t4058-diff-duplicates.sh

Will exit successfully, now we'll get an error and an informative message on:

    GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true ./t4058-diff-duplicates.sh

And even more useful, we'll now either error or exit successfully on this command, depending on whether or not the test has labeled itself leak-free with TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true or not.

    GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check ./t4058-diff-duplicates.sh

Why do we miss these leaks in the first place? As initially noted in [1] (and discussed downthread) the reasons are:

 * Our tests will (mostly) catch segfaults and abort(), but if we
   invoke a command that invokes another command it needs to ferry the
   exit code up to us.
   Notably a command that e.g. might invoke "git pack-objects" might
   itself exit with status 128 if that "pack-objects" segfaults or
   abort()'s. If the test invoking the parent command(s) is using
   "test_must_fail" we'll consider it an expected "ok" failure.
 * run-command.c notably does not do that, so for e.g. "git push"
   tests where we expect a failure and an underlying "git" command
   fails we won't ferry up the segfault or abort exit code.
 * We have gitweb.perl and some other perl code ignoring return values
   from close(), i.e. ignoring exit codes from "git rev-parse" et al.
 * We have in-tree shellscripts like "git-merge-one-file.sh" invoking
   git commands, and if they fail returning "1", not ferrying up the
   segfault or abort() exit code, or simply ignoring the exit codes(s)
   entirely, e.g. these invocations in git-merge-one-file.sh leak, but
   aren't reflected in the "git merge" exit code:
	src1=$(git unpack-file $2)
	src2=$(git unpack-file $3)
   That case would be easily "fixed" by adding a line like this after
   each assignment:
	test $? -ne 0 && exit $?
   But we'd then in e.g. "t6407-merge-binary.sh" run into
   write_tree_trivial() in "builtin/merge.c" calling die() instead of
   ferrying up the relevant exit code.

Let's remove "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" from the one test we were falsely marking as leak-free, marked as such in my 9081a421a6d (checkout: fix "branch info" memory leaks, 2021-11-16). I'd previously removed other bad "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" opt-ins in the series merged in ea05fd5fbf7 (Merge branch 'ab/keep-git-exit-codes-in-tests', 2022-03-16).

1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-00.15-00000000000-20220302T171755Z-avarab@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 t/README                | 10 ++++++
 t/t6407-merge-binary.sh |  1 -
 t/test-lib.sh           | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/t/README b/t/README
index 7b7082386ae..fa16822cde9 100644
--- a/t/README
+++ b/t/README
@@ -381,12 +381,22 @@ without errors a failure (by providing "--invert-exit-code"). Thus the
 there's a 1=1 mapping between "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" and
 those tests that pass under "SANITIZE=leak".
 
+The "check" mode is especially useful if combined with
+GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true.
+
 GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true will log memory leaks to
 "test-results/$TEST_NAME.leak/trace.*" files. Useful in combination
 with "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK" to check if we're falsely
 reporting a test as "passing" with SANITIZE=leak due to ignored exit
 codes.
 
+When GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true is set we'll look at the
+"test-results/$TEST_NAME.leak/trace.*" files at the end of the test
+run in combination with the "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK" and
+GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check setting to see if we'll fail a
+test leaked, but which the test run itself didn't catch due to ignored
+or missed exit codes.
+
 GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=<n>, when set, makes 'protocol.version'
 default to n.
 
diff --git a/t/t6407-merge-binary.sh b/t/t6407-merge-binary.sh
index 0753fc95f45..e8a28717cec 100755
--- a/t/t6407-merge-binary.sh
+++ b/t/t6407-merge-binary.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ test_description='ask merge-recursive to merge binary files'
 GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME=main
 export GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
 
-TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_expect_success setup '
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index 747bf6c50e5..a670c8808b1 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE_PFX=trace
 TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR_SFX=leak
 TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE=
 TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR="$TEST_RESULTS_DIR/$TEST_NAME.$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR_SFX"
+TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR_NR_LEAKS_STARTUP=
 TRASH_DIRECTORY="trash directory.$TEST_NAME$TEST_STRESS_JOB_SFX"
 test -n "$root" && TRASH_DIRECTORY="$root/$TRASH_DIRECTORY"
 case "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" in
@@ -316,6 +317,16 @@ case "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" in
  *) TRASH_DIRECTORY="$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY/$TRASH_DIRECTORY" ;;
 esac
 
+# Utility functions using $TEST_RESULTS_* variables
+nr_san_dir_leaks_ () {
+	# stderr piped to /dev/null because the directory may have
+	# been "rmdir"'d already.
+	find "$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR" \
+		-type f \
+		-name "$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE_PFX.*" 2>/dev/null |
+	wc -l
+}
+
 # If --stress was passed, run this test repeatedly in several parallel loops.
 if test "$GIT_TEST_STRESS_STARTED" = "done"
 then
@@ -1191,6 +1202,58 @@ test_atexit_handler () {
 	teardown_malloc_check
 }
 
+sanitize_leak_log_message_ () {
+	local new="$1" &&
+	local old="$2" &&
+	local file="$3" &&
+
+	printf "With SANITIZE=leak at exit we have %d leak logs, but started with %d
+
+This means that we have a blindspot where git is leaking but we're
+losing the exit code somewhere, or not propagating it appropriately
+upwards!
+
+See the logs at \"%s.*\"" \
+	       "$new" "$old" "$file"
+}
+
+check_test_results_san_file_ () {
+	if test -z "$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE"
+	then
+		return
+	fi
+	local old="$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR_NR_LEAKS_STARTUP" &&
+	local new="$(nr_san_dir_leaks_)" &&
+
+	if test $new -le $old
+	then
+		return
+	fi
+	local out="$(sanitize_leak_log_message_ "$new" "$old" "$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE")" &&
+	say_color error "$out" &&
+
+	if test -n "$passes_sanitize_leak" && test "$test_failure" = 0
+	then
+		say "As TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true and our logs show we're leaking, exit non-zero!"
+		invert_exit_code=t
+	elif test -n "$passes_sanitize_leak"
+	then
+		say "As TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true and our logs show we're leaking, and we're failing for other reasons too..."
+		invert_exit_code=
+	elif test -n "$sanitize_leak_check" && test "$test_failure" = 0
+	then
+		say "As TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true isn't set the above leak is 'ok' with GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check"
+		invert_exit_code=
+	elif test -n "$sanitize_leak_check"
+	then
+		say "As TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true isn't set the above leak is 'ok' with GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check"
+		invert_exit_code=t
+	else
+		say "With GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true our logs revealed a memory leak, exit non-zero!"
+		invert_exit_code=t
+	fi
+}
+
 test_done () {
 	# Run the atexit commands _before_ the trash directory is
 	# removed, so the commands can access pidfiles and socket files.
@@ -1266,6 +1329,8 @@ test_done () {
 			error "Tests passed but test cleanup failed; aborting"
 		fi
 
+		check_test_results_san_file_ "$test_failure"
+
 		if test -z "$skip_all" && test -n "$invert_exit_code"
 		then
 			say_color warn "# faking up non-zero exit with --invert-exit-code"
@@ -1279,6 +1344,8 @@ test_done () {
 		exit 0 ;;
 
 	*)
+		check_test_results_san_file_ "$test_failure"
+
 		if test $test_external_has_tap -eq 0
 		then
 			say_color error "# failed $test_failure among $msg"
@@ -1460,6 +1527,7 @@ then
 
 	if test "$GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK" = "check"
 	then
+		sanitize_leak_check=t
 		if test -n "$invert_exit_code"
 		then
 			BAIL_OUT "cannot use --invert-exit-code under GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check"
@@ -1485,6 +1553,10 @@ then
 		fi &&
 		TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE="$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR/$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_FILE_PFX"
 
+		# In case "test-results" is left over from a previous
+		# run: Only report if new leaks show up.
+		TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR_NR_LEAKS_STARTUP=$(nr_san_dir_leaks_)
+
 		# Don't litter *.leak dirs if there was nothing to report
 		test_atexit "rmdir \"$TEST_RESULTS_SAN_DIR\" 2>/dev/null || :"
 

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  1. 00/10 leak test: add "check" test mode, mark leak-free testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  2. 01/10 test-lib.sh: use $1, not $@ in test_known_broken_{ok,failure}_Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  3. 02/10 test-lib.sh: don't set GIT_EXIT_OK before calling test_atexit_handlerÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  4. 03/10 test-lib.sh: fix GIT_EXIT_OK logic errors, use BAIL_OUTÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  5. 04/10 test-lib.sh: add a --invert-exit-code switchÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  6. 07/10 test-lib.sh: add a GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  7. Derrick StoleeJul 20, 2022
  8. 06/10 test-lib: add a SANITIZE=leak logging modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  9. 05/10 t/README: reword the "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK" descriptionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  10. Derrick StoleeJul 20, 2022
  11. 09/10 leak tests: mark passing SANITIZE=leak tests as leak-freeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  12. Derrick StoleeJul 20, 2022
  13. 08/10 test-lib: have the "check" mode for SANITIZE=leak consider leak logsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  14. Derrick StoleeJul 20, 2022
  15. 10/10 log tests: don't use "exit 1" outside a sub-shellÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 19, 2022
  16. Junio C HamanoJul 20, 2022
  17. 00/14 leak test: add "check" test mode, mark leak-free testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  18. 01/14 test-lib: use $1, not $@ in test_known_broken_{ok,failure}_Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  19. 02/14 test-lib: don't set GIT_EXIT_OK before calling test_atexit_handlerÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  20. 03/14 test-lib: fix GIT_EXIT_OK logic errors, use BAIL_OUTÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  21. 04/14 test-lib: add a --invert-exit-code switchÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  22. 05/14 t/README: reword the "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK" descriptionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  23. 06/14 test-lib: add a SANITIZE=leak logging modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  24. 07/14 t/Makefile: don't remove test-results in "clean-except-prove-cache"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  25. 08/14 tests: move copy/pasted PERL + Test::More checks to a lib-perl.shÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  26. 10/14 test-lib: add a GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  27. 09/14 test-lib: simplify by removing test_externalÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  28. 11/14 test-lib: have the "check" mode for SANITIZE=leak consider leak logsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  29. 12/14 leak tests: mark passing SANITIZE=leak tests as leak-freeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  30. 13/14 upload-pack: fix a memory leak in create_pack_file()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  31. 14/14 CI: use "GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true" in linux-leaksÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 20, 2022
  32. 00/15 leak test: add "check" test mode, mark leak-free testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  33. 01/15 test-lib: use $1, not $@ in test_known_broken_{ok,failure}_Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  34. 02/15 test-lib: don't set GIT_EXIT_OK before calling test_atexit_handlerÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  35. 03/15 test-lib: fix GIT_EXIT_OK logic errors, use BAIL_OUTÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  36. 05/15 t/README: reword the "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK" descriptionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  37. 04/15 test-lib: add a --invert-exit-code switchÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  38. 06/15 test-lib: add a SANITIZE=leak logging modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  39. 07/15 t/Makefile: don't remove test-results in "clean-except-prove-cache"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  40. t/Makefile: remove 'test-results' on 'make clean'SZEDER Gábor, Sep 20, 2022
  41. Jeff KingSep 20, 2022
  42. SZEDER GáborSep 20, 2022
  43. Jeff KingSep 20, 2022
  44. t/Makefile: remove 'test-results' on 'make clean'SZEDER Gábor, Sep 20, 2022
  45. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 21, 2022
  46. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2022
  47. Junio C HamanoSep 21, 2022
  48. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonSep 26, 2022
  49. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2022
  50. 08/15 tests: move copy/pasted PERL + Test::More checks to a lib-perl.shÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  51. 09/15 test-lib: simplify by removing test_externalÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  52. 10/15 test-lib: add a GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=check modeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  53. 12/15 leak tests: don't skip some tests under SANITIZE=leakÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  54. 11/15 test-lib: have the "check" mode for SANITIZE=leak consider leak logsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  55. 13/15 leak tests: mark passing SANITIZE=leak tests as leak-freeÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  56. 15/15 CI: use "GIT_TEST_SANITIZE_LEAK_LOG=true" in linux-leaksÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022
  57. 14/15 upload-pack: fix a memory leak in create_pack_file()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Jul 27, 2022

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