47 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Nikita Popov
de6b8cdc41
[EarlyCSE] Add support for writeonly call CSE (#145474)
Add support for CSE of writeonly calls, similar to the existing support
for readonly calls.
2025-06-30 11:56:32 +02:00
Nikita Popov
10f315dc9c
[ConstantFolding] Infer getelementptr nuw flag (#119214)
Infer nuw from nusw and nneg. This is the constant expression variant of
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/111144.

Proof: https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/ihztLy
2024-12-09 16:44:05 +01:00
Nikita Popov
462cb3cd6c
[InstCombine] Infer nusw + nneg -> nuw for getelementptr (#111144)
If the gep is nusw (usually via inbounds) and the offset is
non-negative, we can infer nuw.

Proof: https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/ihztLy
2024-12-05 14:36:40 +01:00
Paul Walker
38fffa630e
[LLVM][IR] Use splat syntax when printing Constant[Data]Vector. (#112548) 2024-11-06 11:53:33 +00:00
Hari Limaye
94473f4db6
[IRBuilder] Generate nuw GEPs for struct member accesses (#99538)
Generate nuw GEPs for struct member accesses, as inbounds + non-negative
implies nuw.

Regression tests are updated using update scripts where possible, and by
find + replace where not.
2024-08-09 13:25:04 +01:00
Jan Voung
0cf1e662b1
[clang] Skip auto-init on scalar vars that have a non-constant Init and no self-ref (#94642)
In that scalar case, the Init should initialize the auto var before use. The Init might use uninitialized memory from other sources (e.g., heap) but auto-init did not help us in that case because the auto-init would have been overwritten by the Init before use.

For non-scalars e.g., classes, the Init expr might be a ctor call that leaves uninitialized members, so we leave the auto-init there.

The motivation is to have less IR for the optimizer to later remove, which may not be until a fairly late pass (DSE) or may not get optimized in lower optimization levels like O1 (no DSE) or sometimes due to derefinement.
This is ~10% less left-over auto-init in O1 in a few examples checked.
2024-06-24 08:46:31 -04:00
Nikita Popov
8e8d2595da
[ConstantFolding] Canonicalize constexpr GEPs to i8 (#89872)
This patch canonicalizes constant expression GEPs to use i8 source
element type, aka ptradd. This is the ConstantFolding equivalent of the
InstCombine canonicalization introduced in #68882.

I believe all our optimizations working on constant expression GEPs
(like GlobalOpt etc) have already been switched to work on offsets, so I
don't expect any significant fallout from this change.

This is part of:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-replacing-getelementptr-with-ptradd/68699
2024-05-20 11:47:30 +02:00
Antonio Frighetto
b433076fcb [clang][CodeGen] Allow memcpy replace with trivial auto var init
When emitting the storage (or memory copy operations) for constant
initializers, the decision whether to split a constant structure or
array store into a sequence of field stores or to use `memcpy` is
based upon the optimization level and the size of the initializer.
In afe8b93ffdfef5d8879e1894b9d7dda40dee2b8d, we extended this by
allowing constants to be split when the array (or struct) type does
not match the type of data the address to the object (constant) is
expected to contain. This may happen when `emitStoresForConstant` is
called by `EmitAutoVarInit`, as the element type of the address gets
shrunk. When this occurs, let the initializer be split into a bunch
of stores only under `-ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern`.

Fixes: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/84178.
2024-03-21 09:55:04 +01:00
Nikita Popov
0f46e31cfb
[IR] Change representation of getelementptr inrange (#84341)
As part of the migration to ptradd
(https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-replacing-getelementptr-with-ptradd/68699),
we need to change the representation of the `inrange` attribute, which
is used for vtable splitting.

Currently, inrange is specified as follows:

```
getelementptr inbounds ({ [4 x ptr], [4 x ptr] }, ptr @vt, i64 0, inrange i32 1, i64 2)
```

The `inrange` is placed on a GEP index, and all accesses must be "in
range" of that index. The new representation is as follows:

```
getelementptr inbounds inrange(-16, 16) ({ [4 x ptr], [4 x ptr] }, ptr @vt, i64 0, i32 1, i64 2)
```

This specifies which offsets are "in range" of the GEP result. The new
representation will continue working when canonicalizing to ptradd
representation:

```
getelementptr inbounds inrange(-16, 16) (i8, ptr @vt, i64 48)
```

The inrange offsets are relative to the return value of the GEP. An
alternative design could make them relative to the source pointer
instead. The result-relative format was chosen on the off-chance that we
want to extend support to non-constant GEPs in the future, in which case
this variant is more expressive.

This implementation "upgrades" the old inrange representation in bitcode
by simply dropping it. This is a very niche feature, and I don't think
trying to upgrade it is worthwhile. Let me know if you disagree.
2024-03-20 10:59:45 +01:00
serge-sans-paille
afe8b93ffd
[clang] Avoid memcopy for small structure with padding under -ftrivial-auto-var-init (#71677)
Recommit of 0d2860b795879f4dd152963b52f969b53b136899 with extra test
cases fixed.
2023-11-25 00:11:20 +01:00
Florian Hahn
419a4e41fc
Revert "[clang] Avoid memcopy for small structure with padding under -ftrivial-auto-var-init (#71677)"
This reverts commit fe5c360a9aae61db37886c0c795c409b5129905f.
The commit causes the tests below to fail on many buildbots, e.g.
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/245/builds/17047

  Clang :: CodeGen/aapcs-align.cpp
  Clang :: CodeGen/aapcs64-align.cpp
2023-11-23 20:18:55 +00:00
serge-sans-paille
fe5c360a9a
[clang] Avoid memcopy for small structure with padding under -ftrivial-auto-var-init (#71677)
Recommit of 0d2860b795879f4dd152963b52f969b53b136899 with extra test
cases fixed.
2023-11-23 17:37:03 +01:00
Muhammad Omair Javaid
272812c7e4 Revert "[clang] Avoid memcopy for small structure with padding under -ftrivial-auto-var-init (#71677)"
This reverts commit 0d2860b795879f4dd152963b52f969b53b136899.

This change appears to have broken several clang tests on following buildbots:
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/245
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/188
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/186
https://lab.llvm.org/buildbot/#/builders/183
2023-11-23 15:45:00 +05:00
serge-sans-paille
0d2860b795
[clang] Avoid memcopy for small structure with padding under -ftrivial-auto-var-init (#71677) 2023-11-23 05:38:14 +00:00
Nikita Popov
428d38da44 [CodeGenCXX] Convert some tests to opaque pointers (NFC)
In particular also fixes fallout from instcombine changes.
2023-04-05 16:20:15 +02:00
Arthur Eubanks
29363f80a8 [test] Remove various legacy pass manager tests
The new PM been the default for a while and we're in the process of removing the legacy PM optimization pipeline.
2022-04-11 14:02:17 -07:00
Arthur Eubanks
61d418f971 [test] Remove references to -fexperimental-new-pass-manager in tests
This has been the default for a while and we're in the process of removing the legacy PM optimization pipeline.
2022-04-11 13:29:08 -07:00
Nikita Popov
532dc62b90 [OpaquePtrs][Clang] Add -no-opaque-pointers to tests (NFC)
This adds -no-opaque-pointers to clang tests whose output will
change when opaque pointers are enabled by default. This is
intended to be part of the migration approach described in
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/enabling-opaque-pointers-by-default/61322/9.

The patch has been produced by replacing %clang_cc1 with
%clang_cc1 -no-opaque-pointers for tests that fail with opaque
pointers enabled. Worth noting that this doesn't cover all tests,
there's a remaining ~40 tests not using %clang_cc1 that will need
a followup change.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123115
2022-04-07 12:09:47 +02:00
Dávid Bolvanský
cd54c57919 Reland "[Libcalls, Attrs] Annotate libcalls with noundef"
Fixed Clang tests.
2021-02-20 06:18:48 +01:00
Florian Hahn
01089c876b
[InstCombine] Preserve !annotation on newly created instructions.
If the source instruction has !annotation metadata, all instructions
created during combining should also have it. Tell the builder to
add it.

The !annotation system was discussed on llvm-dev as part of
'RFC: Combining Annotation Metadata and Remarks'
(http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146393.html)

This patch is based on an earlier patch by Francis Visoiu Mistrih.

Reviewed By: thegameg, lebedev.ri

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91444
2020-12-17 15:20:23 +00:00
Florian Hahn
ca2e7e5999 [IRGen] Add !annotation metadata for auto-init stores.
This patch updates Clang's IRGen to add !annotation nodes with an
"auto-init" annotation to all stores for auto-initialization.

As discussed in 'RFC: Combining Annotation Metadata and Remarks'
(http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-November/146393.html)
this allows using optimization remarks to track down where auto-init
code was inserted (and not removed by optimizations).

There are a few cases in the tests where !annotation gets dropped by
optimizations. Those optimizations will be updated in subsequent
patches.

This patch is based on a patch by Francis Visoiu Mistrih.

Reviewed By: thegameg, paquette

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91417
2020-11-16 10:37:02 +00:00
Jon Roelofs
38b39c34ab [clang] Add missing FileCheck colons 2020-04-14 12:32:48 -06:00
Eli Friedman
3f1defa6e2 [clang codegen] Clean up handling of vectors with trivial-auto-var-init.
The code was pretending to be doing something useful with vectors, but
really it was doing nothing: the element type of a vector is always a
scalar type, so constWithPadding would always just return the input constant.

Split off from D75661 so it can be reviewed separately.

While I'm here, also add testcase to show missing vector handling.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76528
2020-03-24 14:34:40 -07:00
Eric Christopher
fd39b1bb20 Revert "Revert "As a follow-up to my initial mail to llvm-dev here's a first pass at the O1 described there.""
This reapplies: 8ff85ed905a7306977d07a5cd67ab4d5a56fafb4

Original commit message:

As a follow-up to my initial mail to llvm-dev here's a first pass at the O1 described there.

This change doesn't include any change to move from selection dag to fast isel
and that will come with other numbers that should help inform that decision.
There also haven't been any real debuggability studies with this pipeline yet,
this is just the initial start done so that people could see it and we could start
tweaking after.

Test updates: Outside of the newpm tests most of the updates are coming from either
optimization passes not run anymore (and without a compelling argument at the moment)
that were largely used for canonicalization in clang.

Original post:

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131494.html

Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65410

This reverts commit c9ddb02659e3ece7a0d9d6b4dac7ceea4ae46e6d.
2019-11-26 20:28:52 -08:00
Muhammad Omair Javaid
c9ddb02659 Revert "As a follow-up to my initial mail to llvm-dev here's a first pass at the O1 described there."
This reverts commit 8ff85ed905a7306977d07a5cd67ab4d5a56fafb4.

This commit introduced 9 new failures on lldb buildbot host at http://lab.llvm.org:8014/builders/lldb-aarch64-ubuntu

Following tests were failing:
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/ambiguous_tail_call_seq1/TestAmbiguousTailCallSeq1.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/ambiguous_tail_call_seq2/TestAmbiguousTailCallSeq2.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/disambiguate_call_site/TestDisambiguateCallSite.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/disambiguate_paths_to_common_sink/TestDisambiguatePathsToCommonSink.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/disambiguate_tail_call_seq/TestDisambiguateTailCallSeq.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/inlining_and_tail_calls/TestInliningAndTailCalls.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/sbapi_support/TestTailCallFrameSBAPI.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/thread_step_out_message/TestArtificialFrameStepOutMessage.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/thread_step_out_or_return/TestSteppingOutWithArtificialFrames.py
    lldb-api :: functionalities/tail_call_frames/unambiguous_sequence/TestUnambiguousTailCalls.py

Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65410
2019-11-26 09:32:13 +05:00
Eric Christopher
8ff85ed905 As a follow-up to my initial mail to llvm-dev here's a first pass at the O1 described there.
This change doesn't include any change to move from selection dag to fast isel
and that will come with other numbers that should help inform that decision.
There also haven't been any real debuggability studies with this pipeline yet,
this is just the initial start done so that people could see it and we could start
tweaking after.

Test updates: Outside of the newpm tests most of the updates are coming from either
optimization passes not run anymore (and without a compelling argument at the moment)
that were largely used for canonicalization in clang.

Original post:

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131494.html

Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65410
2019-11-25 17:16:46 -08:00
Clement Courbet
30b5331df8 [clang][codegen][NFC] Make test patterns more permissive.
See the discussion in:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20190909/692736.html

llvm-svn: 371522
2019-09-10 14:20:08 +00:00
David Bolvansky
c3012b2c26 [NFC] Updated tests after r368657
llvm-svn: 368658
2019-08-13 09:12:07 +00:00
Vitaly Buka
c2ac925d6e CodeGet: Init 32bit pointers with 0xFFFFFFFF
Summary:
Patch makes D63967 effective for 32bit platforms and improves pattern
initialization there. It cuts size of 32bit binary compiled with
-ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern by 2% (3% with -Os).

Binary size change on CTMark, (with -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,--icf=all, similar results with default linker options)
```
                   master           patch      diff
Os pattern   7.915580e+05    7.698424e+05 -0.028387
O3 pattern   9.953688e+05    9.752952e+05 -0.019325
```

Zero vs Pattern on master
```
               zero       pattern      diff
Os     7.689712e+05  7.915580e+05  0.031380
O3     9.744796e+05  9.953688e+05  0.021133
```

Zero vs Pattern with the patch
```
               zero       pattern      diff
Os     7.689712e+05  7.698424e+05  0.000789
O3     9.744796e+05  9.752952e+05  0.000742
```

Reviewers: pcc, eugenis, glider, jfb

Reviewed By: jfb

Subscribers: hubert.reinterpretcast, dexonsmith, cfe-commits

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64597

llvm-svn: 365921
2019-07-12 17:21:55 +00:00
Vitaly Buka
c559e63798 Handle IntToPtr in isBytewiseValue
Summary:
This helps with more efficient use of memset for pattern initialization

From @pcc prototype for -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern optimizations

Binary size change on CTMark, (with -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,--icf=all, similar results with default linker options)
```
                   master           patch      diff
Os           8.238864e+05    8.238864e+05       0.0
O3           1.054797e+06    1.054797e+06       0.0
Os zero      8.292384e+05    8.292384e+05       0.0
O3 zero      1.062626e+06    1.062626e+06       0.0
Os pattern   8.579712e+05    8.338048e+05 -0.030299
O3 pattern   1.090502e+06    1.067574e+06 -0.020481
```

Zero vs Pattern on master
```
               zero       pattern      diff
Os     8.292384e+05  8.579712e+05  0.036578
O3     1.062626e+06  1.090502e+06  0.025124
```

Zero vs Pattern with the patch
```
               zero       pattern      diff
Os     8.292384e+05  8.338048e+05  0.003333
O3     1.062626e+06  1.067574e+06  0.003193
```

Reviewers: pcc, eugenis

Subscribers: hiraditya, cfe-commits, llvm-commits

Tags: #clang, #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63967

llvm-svn: 365858
2019-07-12 01:42:03 +00:00
Vitaly Buka
669ad5ff15 Codegen, NFC: 32bit test in auto-var-init.cpp
llvm-svn: 365857
2019-07-12 01:36:11 +00:00
Vitaly Buka
f55aad0356 CodeGen: Suppress c++ warnings in test
llvm-svn: 365835
2019-07-11 21:59:09 +00:00
Vitaly Buka
07bfa5b870 CodeGen, NFC: Test for auto-init for 32bit pointers
llvm-svn: 365822
2019-07-11 20:51:59 +00:00
Leonard Chan
f66309203e [clang][NewPM] Add -fno-experimental-new-pass-manager to tests
As per the discussion on D58375, we disable test that have optimizations under
the new PM. This patch adds -fno-experimental-new-pass-manager to RUNS that:

- Already run with optimizations (-O1 or higher) that were missed in D58375.
- Explicitly test new PM behavior along side some new PM RUNS, but are missing
  this flag if new PM is enabled by default.
- Specify -O without the number. Based on getOptimizationLevel(), it seems the
  default is 2, and the IR appears to be the same when changed to -O2, so
  update the test to explicitly say -O2 and provide -fno-experimental-new-pass-manager`.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63156

llvm-svn: 364066
2019-06-21 16:03:06 +00:00
JF Bastien
cdf26f15d1 Fix auto-init test
r359628 changed the initialization of padding to follow C, but I didn't update the C++ tests.

llvm-svn: 359636
2019-04-30 23:27:28 +00:00
Peter Collingbourne
68b4673fea CodeGen: Preserve packed attribute in constStructWithPadding.
Otherwise the object may have an incorrect size due to tail padding.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59446

llvm-svn: 356328
2019-03-16 19:25:39 +00:00
JF Bastien
b5e5bc760e Variable auto-init: split out small arrays
Summary: Following up with r355181, initialize small arrays as well.

LLVM stage2 shows a tiny size gain.

<rdar://48523005>

Reviewers: glider, pcc, kcc, rjmccall

Subscribers: jkorous, dexonsmith, jdoerfert, cfe-commits

Tags: #clang

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58885

llvm-svn: 355660
2019-03-08 01:26:49 +00:00
Alexander Potapenko
fa61dddf5d CodeGen: Fix PR40605 by splitting constant struct initializers
When emitting initializers for local structures for code built with
-ftrivial-auto-var-init, replace constant structures with sequences of
stores.

This appears to greatly help removing dead initialization stores to those
locals that are later overwritten by other data.
This also removes a lot of .rodata constants (see PR40605), replacing most
of them with immediate values (for Linux kernel the .rodata size is
reduced by ~1.9%)

llvm-svn: 355181
2019-03-01 09:00:41 +00:00
Alexander Potapenko
4f7bc0eee7 CodeGen: Explicitly initialize structure padding in the -ftrivial-auto-var-init mode
When generating initializers for local structures in the
-ftrivial-auto-var-init mode, explicitly wipe the padding bytes with
either 0x00 or 0xAA.

This will allow us to automatically handle the padding when splitting
the initialization stores (see https://reviews.llvm.org/D57898).

Reviewed at https://reviews.llvm.org/D58188

llvm-svn: 354861
2019-02-26 10:46:21 +00:00
JF Bastien
17aec7bd36 [NFC] Reorder some mis-ordered tests
I somehow had misaligned some of the tests when I originally wrote this. Re-order them properly.

llvm-svn: 354831
2019-02-25 23:09:34 +00:00
Nemanja Ivanovic
db64e7e9fa [NFC] Explicitly add -std=c++14 option to tests that rely on the C++14 default
When Clang/LLVM is built with the CLANG_DEFAULT_STD_CXX CMake macro that sets
the default standard to something other than C++14, there are a number of lit
tests that fail as they rely on the C++14 default.
This patch just adds the language standard option explicitly to such test cases.

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57581

llvm-svn: 353163
2019-02-05 12:05:53 +00:00
JF Bastien
14daa20be1 Automatic variable initialization
Summary:
Add an option to initialize automatic variables with either a pattern or with
zeroes. The default is still that automatic variables are uninitialized. Also
add attributes to request uninitialized on a per-variable basis, mainly to disable
initialization of large stack arrays when deemed too expensive.

This isn't meant to change the semantics of C and C++. Rather, it's meant to be
a last-resort when programmers inadvertently have some undefined behavior in
their code. This patch aims to make undefined behavior hurt less, which
security-minded people will be very happy about. Notably, this means that
there's no inadvertent information leak when:

  - The compiler re-uses stack slots, and a value is used uninitialized.
  - The compiler re-uses a register, and a value is used uninitialized.
  - Stack structs / arrays / unions with padding are copied.

This patch only addresses stack and register information leaks. There's many
more infoleaks that we could address, and much more undefined behavior that
could be tamed. Let's keep this patch focused, and I'm happy to address related
issues elsewhere.

To keep the patch simple, only some `undef` is removed for now, see
`replaceUndef`. The padding-related infoleaks are therefore not all gone yet.
This will be addressed in a follow-up, mainly because addressing padding-related
leaks should be a stand-alone option which is implied by variable
initialization.

There are three options when it comes to automatic variable initialization:

  0. Uninitialized

    This is C and C++'s default. It's not changing. Depending on code
    generation, a programmer who runs into undefined behavior by using an
    uninialized automatic variable may observe any previous value (including
    program secrets), or any value which the compiler saw fit to materialize on
    the stack or in a register (this could be to synthesize an immediate, to
    refer to code or data locations, to generate cookies, etc).

  1. Pattern initialization

    This is the recommended initialization approach. Pattern initialization's
    goal is to initialize automatic variables with values which will likely
    transform logic bugs into crashes down the line, are easily recognizable in
    a crash dump, without being values which programmers can rely on for useful
    program semantics. At the same time, pattern initialization tries to
    generate code which will optimize well. You'll find the following details in
    `patternFor`:

    - Integers are initialized with repeated 0xAA bytes (infinite scream).
    - Vectors of integers are also initialized with infinite scream.
    - Pointers are initialized with infinite scream on 64-bit platforms because
      it's an unmappable pointer value on architectures I'm aware of. Pointers
      are initialize to 0x000000AA (small scream) on 32-bit platforms because
      32-bit platforms don't consistently offer unmappable pages. When they do
      it's usually the zero page. As people try this out, I expect that we'll
      want to allow different platforms to customize this, let's do so later.
    - Vectors of pointers are initialized the same way pointers are.
    - Floating point values and vectors are initialized with a negative quiet
      NaN with repeated 0xFF payload (e.g. 0xffffffff and 0xffffffffffffffff).
      NaNs are nice (here, anways) because they propagate on arithmetic, making
      it more likely that entire computations become NaN when a single
      uninitialized value sneaks in.
    - Arrays are initialized to their homogeneous elements' initialization
      value, repeated. Stack-based Variable-Length Arrays (VLAs) are
      runtime-initialized to the allocated size (no effort is made for negative
      size, but zero-sized VLAs are untouched even if technically undefined).
    - Structs are initialized to their heterogeneous element's initialization
      values. Zero-size structs are initialized as 0xAA since they're allocated
      a single byte.
    - Unions are initialized using the initialization for the largest member of
      the union.

    Expect the values used for pattern initialization to change over time, as we
    refine heuristics (both for performance and security). The goal is truly to
    avoid injecting semantics into undefined behavior, and we should be
    comfortable changing these values when there's a worthwhile point in doing
    so.

    Why so much infinite scream? Repeated byte patterns tend to be easy to
    synthesize on most architectures, and otherwise memset is usually very
    efficient. For values which aren't entirely repeated byte patterns, LLVM
    will often generate code which does memset + a few stores.

  2. Zero initialization

    Zero initialize all values. This has the unfortunate side-effect of
    providing semantics to otherwise undefined behavior, programs therefore
    might start to rely on this behavior, and that's sad. However, some
    programmers believe that pattern initialization is too expensive for them,
    and data might show that they're right. The only way to make these
    programmers wrong is to offer zero-initialization as an option, figure out
    where they are right, and optimize the compiler into submission. Until the
    compiler provides acceptable performance for all security-minded code, zero
    initialization is a useful (if blunt) tool.

I've been asked for a fourth initialization option: user-provided byte value.
This might be useful, and can easily be added later.

Why is an out-of band initialization mecanism desired? We could instead use
-Wuninitialized! Indeed we could, but then we're forcing the programmer to
provide semantics for something which doesn't actually have any (it's
uninitialized!). It's then unclear whether `int derp = 0;` lends meaning to `0`,
or whether it's just there to shut that warning up. It's also way easier to use
a compiler flag than it is to manually and intelligently initialize all values
in a program.

Why not just rely on static analysis? Because it cannot reason about all dynamic
code paths effectively, and it has false positives. It's a great tool, could get
even better, but it's simply incapable of catching all uses of uninitialized
values.

Why not just rely on memory sanitizer? Because it's not universally available,
has a 3x performance cost, and shouldn't be deployed in production. Again, it's
a great tool, it'll find the dynamic uses of uninitialized variables that your
test coverage hits, but it won't find the ones that you encounter in production.

What's the performance like? Not too bad! Previous publications [0] have cited
2.7 to 4.5% averages. We've commmitted a few patches over the last few months to
address specific regressions, both in code size and performance. In all cases,
the optimizations are generally useful, but variable initialization benefits
from them a lot more than regular code does. We've got a handful of other
optimizations in mind, but the code is in good enough shape and has found enough
latent issues that it's a good time to get the change reviewed, checked in, and
have others kick the tires. We'll continue reducing overheads as we try this out
on diverse codebases.

Is it a good idea? Security-minded folks think so, and apparently so does the
Microsoft Visual Studio team [1] who say "Between 2017 and mid 2018, this
feature would have killed 49 MSRC cases that involved uninitialized struct data
leaking across a trust boundary. It would have also mitigated a number of bugs
involving uninitialized struct data being used directly.". They seem to use pure
zero initialization, and claim to have taken the overheads down to within noise.
Don't just trust Microsoft though, here's another relevant person asking for
this [2]. It's been proposed for GCC [3] and LLVM [4] before.

What are the caveats? A few!

  - Variables declared in unreachable code, and used later, aren't initialized.
    This goto, Duff's device, other objectionable uses of switch. This should
    instead be a hard-error in any serious codebase.
  - Volatile stack variables are still weird. That's pre-existing, it's really
    the language's fault and this patch keeps it weird. We should deprecate
    volatile [5].
  - As noted above, padding isn't fully handled yet.

I don't think these caveats make the patch untenable because they can be
addressed separately.

Should this be on by default? Maybe, in some circumstances. It's a conversation
we can have when we've tried it out sufficiently, and we're confident that we've
eliminated enough of the overheads that most codebases would want to opt-in.
Let's keep our precious undefined behavior until that point in time.

How do I use it:

  1. On the command-line:

    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=uninitialized (the default)
    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=pattern
    -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero -enable-trivial-auto-var-init-zero-knowing-it-will-be-removed-from-clang

  2. Using an attribute:

    int dont_initialize_me __attribute((uninitialized));

  [0]: https://users.elis.ugent.be/~jsartor/researchDocs/OOPSLA2011Zero-submit.pdf
  [1]: https://twitter.com/JosephBialek/status/1062774315098112001
  [2]: https://outflux.net/slides/2018/lss/danger.pdf
  [3]: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg00615.html
  [4]: 776a0955ef
  [5]: http://wg21.link/p1152

I've also posted an RFC to cfe-dev: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/cfe-dev/2018-November/060172.html

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Reviewers: pcc, kcc, rsmith

Subscribers: JDevlieghere, jkorous, dexonsmith, cfe-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54604

llvm-svn: 349442
2018-12-18 05:12:21 +00:00
JF Bastien
fe2ea8249d CDDecl More automatic variable tail padding test
Test tail padded automatic variable at different width, because they encounter different codegen.

llvm-svn: 339273
2018-08-08 17:05:17 +00:00
JF Bastien
cc365c376a [NFC] Improve auto-var-init alignment check
We're not actually testing for alignment, we just want to know that whatever incoming alignment got propagated. Do that by capturing the alignment and checking that it's actually what's passed later, instead of hard-coding an alignment value.

llvm-svn: 339196
2018-08-07 22:43:44 +00:00
JF Bastien
8137793a8f Auto var init test fix #2
It turns out that the AVX bots have different alignment for their vectors, and my test mistakenly assumed a particular vector alignent on the stack. Instead, capture the alignment and test for it in subsequent operations.

llvm-svn: 339093
2018-08-07 04:44:13 +00:00
JF Bastien
1b222cea08 Remove broken command flag
I was using it for testing, r339089 shouldn't have contained it.

llvm-svn: 339090
2018-08-07 04:03:03 +00:00
JF Bastien
c70f65e86e [NFC] Test automatic variable initialization
Summary:
r337887 started using memset for automatic variable initialization where sensible. A follow-up discussion leads me to believe that we should better test automatic variable initialization, and that there are probably follow-up patches in clang and LLVM to improve codegen. It’ll be important to measure -O0 compile time, and figure out which transforms should be in the frontend versus the backend.

This patch is just a test of the current behavior, no questions asked. Follow-up patches will tune the code generation.

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Subscribers: dexonsmith, cfe-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50361

llvm-svn: 339089
2018-08-07 03:12:52 +00:00