In the hardening modes that can be used in production (`fast` and
`extensive`), make a failed assertion invoke a trap instruction rather
than calling verbose abort. In the debug mode, still keep calling
verbose abort to provide a better user experience and to allow us to
keep our existing testing infrastructure for verifying assertion
messages. Since the debug mode by definition enables all assertions, we
can be sure that we still check all the assertion messages in the
library when running the test suite in the debug mode.
The main motivation to use trapping in production is to achieve better
code generation and reduce the binary size penalty. This way, the
assertion handler can compile to a single instruction, whereas the
existing mechanism with verbose abort results in generating a function
call that in general cannot be optimized away (made worse by the fact
that it's a variadic function, imposing an additional penalty). See the
[RFC](https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-hardening-in-libc/73925) for more
details. Note that this mechanism can now be completely [overridden at
CMake configuration
time](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/77883).
This patch also significantly refactors `check_assertion.h` and expands
its test coverage. The main changes:
- when overriding `verbose_abort`, don't do matching inside the function
-- just print the error message to `stderr`. This removes the need to
set a global matcher and allows to do matching in the parent process
after the child finishes;
- remove unused logic for matching source locations and for using
wildcards;
- make matchers simple functors;
- introduce `DeathTestResult` that keeps data about the test run,
primarily to make it easier to test.
In addition to the refactoring, `check_assertion.h` can now recognize
when a process exits due to a trap.
Previously there were two ways to override the verbose abort function
which gets called when a hardening assertion is triggered:
- compile-time: define the `_LIBCPP_VERBOSE_ABORT` macro;
- link-time: provide a definition of `__libcpp_verbose_abort` function.
This patch adds a new configure-time approach: the vendor can provide
a path to a custom header file which will get copied into the build by
CMake and included by the library. The header must provide a definition
of the
`_LIBCPP_ASSERTION_HANDLER` macro which is what will get called should
a hardening assertion fail. As of this patch, overriding
`_LIBCPP_VERBOSE_ABORT` will still work, but the previous mechanisms
will be effectively removed in a follow-up patch, making the
configure-time mechanism the sole way of overriding the default handler.
Note that `_LIBCPP_ASSERTION_HANDLER` only gets invoked when a hardening
assertion fails. It does not affect other cases where
`_LIBCPP_VERBOSE_ABORT` is currently used (e.g. when an exception is
thrown in the `-fno-exceptions` mode).
The library provides a default version of the custom header file that
will get used if it's not overridden by the vendor. That allows us to
always test the override mechanism and reduces the difference in
configuration between the pristine version of the library and
a platform-specific version.
