Home | History | Annotate | Download | only in Analyses
      1 //===- ThreadSafety.h ------------------------------------------*- C++ --*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 //
     11 // A intra-procedural analysis for thread safety (e.g. deadlocks and race
     12 // conditions), based off of an annotation system.
     13 //
     14 // See http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#threadsafety for more
     15 // information.
     16 //
     17 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     18 
     19 #ifndef LLVM_CLANG_THREADSAFETY_H
     20 #define LLVM_CLANG_THREADSAFETY_H
     21 
     22 #include "clang/Analysis/AnalysisContext.h"
     23 #include "clang/Basic/SourceLocation.h"
     24 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
     25 
     26 namespace clang {
     27 namespace thread_safety {
     28 
     29 /// This enum distinguishes between different kinds of operations that may
     30 /// need to be protected by locks. We use this enum in error handling.
     31 enum ProtectedOperationKind {
     32   POK_VarDereference, /// Dereferencing a variable (e.g. p in *p = 5;)
     33   POK_VarAccess, /// Reading or writing a variable (e.g. x in x = 5;)
     34   POK_FunctionCall /// Making a function call (e.g. fool())
     35 };
     36 
     37 /// This enum distinguishes between different kinds of lock actions. For
     38 /// example, it is an error to write a variable protected by shared version of a
     39 /// mutex.
     40 enum LockKind {
     41   LK_Shared, /// Shared/reader lock of a mutex
     42   LK_Exclusive /// Exclusive/writer lock of a mutex
     43 };
     44 
     45 /// This enum distinguishes between different ways to access (read or write) a
     46 /// variable.
     47 enum AccessKind {
     48   AK_Read, /// Reading a variable
     49   AK_Written /// Writing a variable
     50 };
     51 
     52 /// This enum distinguishes between different situations where we warn due to
     53 /// inconsistent locking.
     54 /// \enum SK_LockedSomeLoopIterations -- a mutex is locked for some but not all
     55 /// loop iterations.
     56 /// \enum SK_LockedSomePredecessors -- a mutex is locked in some but not all
     57 /// predecessors of a CFGBlock.
     58 /// \enum SK_LockedAtEndOfFunction -- a mutex is still locked at the end of a
     59 /// function.
     60 enum LockErrorKind {
     61   LEK_LockedSomeLoopIterations,
     62   LEK_LockedSomePredecessors,
     63   LEK_LockedAtEndOfFunction
     64 };
     65 
     66 /// Handler class for thread safety warnings.
     67 class ThreadSafetyHandler {
     68 public:
     69   typedef llvm::StringRef Name;
     70   virtual ~ThreadSafetyHandler();
     71 
     72   /// Warn about lock expressions which fail to resolve to lockable objects.
     73   /// \param Loc -- the SourceLocation of the unresolved expression.
     74   virtual void handleInvalidLockExp(SourceLocation Loc) {}
     75 
     76   /// Warn about unlock function calls that do not have a prior matching lock
     77   /// expression.
     78   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
     79   /// in the error message.
     80   /// \param Loc -- The SourceLocation of the Unlock
     81   virtual void handleUnmatchedUnlock(Name LockName, SourceLocation Loc) {}
     82 
     83   /// Warn about lock function calls for locks which are already held.
     84   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
     85   /// in the error message.
     86   /// \param Loc -- The location of the second lock expression.
     87   virtual void handleDoubleLock(Name LockName, SourceLocation Loc) {}
     88 
     89   /// Warn about situations where a mutex is sometimes held and sometimes not.
     90   /// The three situations are:
     91   /// 1. a mutex is locked on an "if" branch but not the "else" branch,
     92   /// 2, or a mutex is only held at the start of some loop iterations,
     93   /// 3. or when a mutex is locked but not unlocked inside a function.
     94   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
     95   /// in the error message.
     96   /// \param LocLocked -- The location of the lock expression where the mutex is
     97   ///               locked
     98   /// \param LocEndOfScope -- The location of the end of the scope where the
     99   ///               mutex is no longer held
    100   /// \param LEK -- which of the three above cases we should warn for
    101   virtual void handleMutexHeldEndOfScope(Name LockName,
    102                                          SourceLocation LocLocked,
    103                                          SourceLocation LocEndOfScope,
    104                                          LockErrorKind LEK){}
    105 
    106   /// Warn when a mutex is held exclusively and shared at the same point. For
    107   /// example, if a mutex is locked exclusively during an if branch and shared
    108   /// during the else branch.
    109   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
    110   /// in the error message.
    111   /// \param Loc1 -- The location of the first lock expression.
    112   /// \param Loc2 -- The location of the second lock expression.
    113   virtual void handleExclusiveAndShared(Name LockName, SourceLocation Loc1,
    114                                         SourceLocation Loc2) {}
    115 
    116   /// Warn when a protected operation occurs while no locks are held.
    117   /// \param D -- The decl for the protected variable or function
    118   /// \param POK -- The kind of protected operation (e.g. variable access)
    119   /// \param AK -- The kind of access (i.e. read or write) that occurred
    120   /// \param Loc -- The location of the protected operation.
    121   virtual void handleNoMutexHeld(const NamedDecl *D, ProtectedOperationKind POK,
    122                                  AccessKind AK, SourceLocation Loc) {}
    123 
    124   /// Warn when a protected operation occurs while the specific mutex protecting
    125   /// the operation is not locked.
    126   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
    127   /// in the error message.
    128   /// \param D -- The decl for the protected variable or function
    129   /// \param POK -- The kind of protected operation (e.g. variable access)
    130   /// \param AK -- The kind of access (i.e. read or write) that occurred
    131   /// \param Loc -- The location of the protected operation.
    132   virtual void handleMutexNotHeld(const NamedDecl *D,
    133                                   ProtectedOperationKind POK, Name LockName,
    134                                   LockKind LK, SourceLocation Loc) {}
    135 
    136   /// Warn when a function is called while an excluded mutex is locked. For
    137   /// example, the mutex may be locked inside the function.
    138   /// \param FunName -- The name of the function
    139   /// \param LockName -- A StringRef name for the lock expression, to be printed
    140   /// in the error message.
    141   /// \param Loc -- The location of the function call.
    142   virtual void handleFunExcludesLock(Name FunName, Name LockName,
    143                                      SourceLocation Loc) {}
    144 };
    145 
    146 /// \brief Check a function's CFG for thread-safety violations.
    147 ///
    148 /// We traverse the blocks in the CFG, compute the set of mutexes that are held
    149 /// at the end of each block, and issue warnings for thread safety violations.
    150 /// Each block in the CFG is traversed exactly once.
    151 void runThreadSafetyAnalysis(AnalysisDeclContext &AC,
    152                              ThreadSafetyHandler &Handler);
    153 
    154 /// \brief Helper function that returns a LockKind required for the given level
    155 /// of access.
    156 LockKind getLockKindFromAccessKind(AccessKind AK);
    157 
    158 }} // end namespace clang::thread_safety
    159 #endif
    160