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      1 //= CheckerDocumentation.cpp - Documentation checker ---------------*- 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 // This checker lists all the checker callbacks and provides documentation for
     11 // checker writers.
     12 //
     13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     14 
     15 #include "ClangSACheckers.h"
     16 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/BugReporter/BugType.h"
     17 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/Checker.h"
     18 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/CheckerManager.h"
     19 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/PathSensitive/CheckerContext.h"
     20 #include "clang/StaticAnalyzer/Core/PathSensitive/ProgramStateTrait.h"
     21 
     22 using namespace clang;
     23 using namespace ento;
     24 
     25 // All checkers should be placed into anonymous namespace.
     26 // We place the CheckerDocumentation inside ento namespace to make the
     27 // it visible in doxygen.
     28 namespace clang {
     29 namespace ento {
     30 
     31 /// This checker documents the callback functions checkers can use to implement
     32 /// the custom handling of the specific events during path exploration as well
     33 /// as reporting bugs. Most of the callbacks are targeted at path-sensitive
     34 /// checking.
     35 ///
     36 /// \sa CheckerContext
     37 class CheckerDocumentation : public Checker< check::PreStmt<ReturnStmt>,
     38                                        check::PostStmt<DeclStmt>,
     39                                        check::PreObjCMessage,
     40                                        check::PostObjCMessage,
     41                                        check::ObjCMessageNil,
     42                                        check::PreCall,
     43                                        check::PostCall,
     44                                        check::BranchCondition,
     45                                        check::Location,
     46                                        check::Bind,
     47                                        check::DeadSymbols,
     48                                        check::EndFunction,
     49                                        check::EndAnalysis,
     50                                        check::EndOfTranslationUnit,
     51                                        eval::Call,
     52                                        eval::Assume,
     53                                        check::LiveSymbols,
     54                                        check::RegionChanges,
     55                                        check::PointerEscape,
     56                                        check::ConstPointerEscape,
     57                                        check::Event<ImplicitNullDerefEvent>,
     58                                        check::ASTDecl<FunctionDecl> > {
     59 public:
     60 
     61   /// \brief Pre-visit the Statement.
     62   ///
     63   /// The method will be called before the analyzer core processes the
     64   /// statement. The notification is performed for every explored CFGElement,
     65   /// which does not include the control flow statements such as IfStmt. The
     66   /// callback can be specialized to be called with any subclass of Stmt.
     67   ///
     68   /// See checkBranchCondition() callback for performing custom processing of
     69   /// the branching statements.
     70   ///
     71   /// check::PreStmt<ReturnStmt>
     72   void checkPreStmt(const ReturnStmt *DS, CheckerContext &C) const {}
     73 
     74   /// \brief Post-visit the Statement.
     75   ///
     76   /// The method will be called after the analyzer core processes the
     77   /// statement. The notification is performed for every explored CFGElement,
     78   /// which does not include the control flow statements such as IfStmt. The
     79   /// callback can be specialized to be called with any subclass of Stmt.
     80   ///
     81   /// check::PostStmt<DeclStmt>
     82   void checkPostStmt(const DeclStmt *DS, CheckerContext &C) const;
     83 
     84   /// \brief Pre-visit the Objective C message.
     85   ///
     86   /// This will be called before the analyzer core processes the method call.
     87   /// This is called for any action which produces an Objective-C message send,
     88   /// including explicit message syntax and property access.
     89   ///
     90   /// check::PreObjCMessage
     91   void checkPreObjCMessage(const ObjCMethodCall &M, CheckerContext &C) const {}
     92 
     93   /// \brief Post-visit the Objective C message.
     94   /// \sa checkPreObjCMessage()
     95   ///
     96   /// check::PostObjCMessage
     97   void checkPostObjCMessage(const ObjCMethodCall &M, CheckerContext &C) const {}
     98 
     99   /// \brief Visit an Objective-C message whose receiver is nil.
    100   ///
    101   /// This will be called when the analyzer core processes a method call whose
    102   /// receiver is definitely nil. In this case, check{Pre/Post}ObjCMessage and
    103   /// check{Pre/Post}Call will not be called.
    104   ///
    105   /// check::ObjCMessageNil
    106   void checkObjCMessageNil(const ObjCMethodCall &M, CheckerContext &C) const {}
    107 
    108   /// \brief Pre-visit an abstract "call" event.
    109   ///
    110   /// This is used for checkers that want to check arguments or attributed
    111   /// behavior for functions and methods no matter how they are being invoked.
    112   ///
    113   /// Note that this includes ALL cross-body invocations, so if you want to
    114   /// limit your checks to, say, function calls, you should test for that at the
    115   /// beginning of your callback function.
    116   ///
    117   /// check::PreCall
    118   void checkPreCall(const CallEvent &Call, CheckerContext &C) const {}
    119 
    120   /// \brief Post-visit an abstract "call" event.
    121   /// \sa checkPreObjCMessage()
    122   ///
    123   /// check::PostCall
    124   void checkPostCall(const CallEvent &Call, CheckerContext &C) const {}
    125 
    126   /// \brief Pre-visit of the condition statement of a branch (such as IfStmt).
    127   void checkBranchCondition(const Stmt *Condition, CheckerContext &Ctx) const {}
    128 
    129   /// \brief Called on a load from and a store to a location.
    130   ///
    131   /// The method will be called each time a location (pointer) value is
    132   /// accessed.
    133   /// \param Loc    The value of the location (pointer).
    134   /// \param IsLoad The flag specifying if the location is a store or a load.
    135   /// \param S      The load is performed while processing the statement.
    136   ///
    137   /// check::Location
    138   void checkLocation(SVal Loc, bool IsLoad, const Stmt *S,
    139                      CheckerContext &) const {}
    140 
    141   /// \brief Called on binding of a value to a location.
    142   ///
    143   /// \param Loc The value of the location (pointer).
    144   /// \param Val The value which will be stored at the location Loc.
    145   /// \param S   The bind is performed while processing the statement S.
    146   ///
    147   /// check::Bind
    148   void checkBind(SVal Loc, SVal Val, const Stmt *S, CheckerContext &) const {}
    149 
    150 
    151   /// \brief Called whenever a symbol becomes dead.
    152   ///
    153   /// This callback should be used by the checkers to aggressively clean
    154   /// up/reduce the checker state, which is important for reducing the overall
    155   /// memory usage. Specifically, if a checker keeps symbol specific information
    156   /// in the sate, it can and should be dropped after the symbol becomes dead.
    157   /// In addition, reporting a bug as soon as the checker becomes dead leads to
    158   /// more precise diagnostics. (For example, one should report that a malloced
    159   /// variable is not freed right after it goes out of scope.)
    160   ///
    161   /// \param SR The SymbolReaper object can be queried to determine which
    162   ///           symbols are dead.
    163   ///
    164   /// check::DeadSymbols
    165   void checkDeadSymbols(SymbolReaper &SR, CheckerContext &C) const {}
    166 
    167   /// \brief Called when the analyzer core reaches the end of a
    168   /// function being analyzed.
    169   ///
    170   /// check::EndFunction
    171   void checkEndFunction(CheckerContext &Ctx) const {}
    172 
    173   /// \brief Called after all the paths in the ExplodedGraph reach end of path
    174   /// - the symbolic execution graph is fully explored.
    175   ///
    176   /// This callback should be used in cases when a checker needs to have a
    177   /// global view of the information generated on all paths. For example, to
    178   /// compare execution summary/result several paths.
    179   /// See IdempotentOperationChecker for a usage example.
    180   ///
    181   /// check::EndAnalysis
    182   void checkEndAnalysis(ExplodedGraph &G,
    183                         BugReporter &BR,
    184                         ExprEngine &Eng) const {}
    185 
    186   /// \brief Called after analysis of a TranslationUnit is complete.
    187   ///
    188   /// check::EndOfTranslationUnit
    189   void checkEndOfTranslationUnit(const TranslationUnitDecl *TU,
    190                                  AnalysisManager &Mgr,
    191                                  BugReporter &BR) const {}
    192 
    193 
    194   /// \brief Evaluates function call.
    195   ///
    196   /// The analysis core threats all function calls in the same way. However, some
    197   /// functions have special meaning, which should be reflected in the program
    198   /// state. This callback allows a checker to provide domain specific knowledge
    199   /// about the particular functions it knows about.
    200   ///
    201   /// \returns true if the call has been successfully evaluated
    202   /// and false otherwise. Note, that only one checker can evaluate a call. If
    203   /// more than one checker claims that they can evaluate the same call the
    204   /// first one wins.
    205   ///
    206   /// eval::Call
    207   bool evalCall(const CallExpr *CE, CheckerContext &C) const { return true; }
    208 
    209   /// \brief Handles assumptions on symbolic values.
    210   ///
    211   /// This method is called when a symbolic expression is assumed to be true or
    212   /// false. For example, the assumptions are performed when evaluating a
    213   /// condition at a branch. The callback allows checkers track the assumptions
    214   /// performed on the symbols of interest and change the state accordingly.
    215   ///
    216   /// eval::Assume
    217   ProgramStateRef evalAssume(ProgramStateRef State,
    218                                  SVal Cond,
    219                                  bool Assumption) const { return State; }
    220 
    221   /// Allows modifying SymbolReaper object. For example, checkers can explicitly
    222   /// register symbols of interest as live. These symbols will not be marked
    223   /// dead and removed.
    224   ///
    225   /// check::LiveSymbols
    226   void checkLiveSymbols(ProgramStateRef State, SymbolReaper &SR) const {}
    227 
    228   /// \brief Called to determine if the checker currently needs to know if when
    229   /// contents of any regions change.
    230   ///
    231   /// Since it is not necessarily cheap to compute which regions are being
    232   /// changed, this allows the analyzer core to skip the more expensive
    233   /// #checkRegionChanges when no checkers are tracking any state.
    234   bool wantsRegionChangeUpdate(ProgramStateRef St) const { return true; }
    235 
    236   /// \brief Called when the contents of one or more regions change.
    237   ///
    238   /// This can occur in many different ways: an explicit bind, a blanket
    239   /// invalidation of the region contents, or by passing a region to a function
    240   /// call whose behavior the analyzer cannot model perfectly.
    241   ///
    242   /// \param State The current program state.
    243   /// \param Invalidated A set of all symbols potentially touched by the change.
    244   /// \param ExplicitRegions The regions explicitly requested for invalidation.
    245   ///        For a function call, this would be the arguments. For a bind, this
    246   ///        would be the region being bound to.
    247   /// \param Regions The transitive closure of regions accessible from,
    248   ///        \p ExplicitRegions, i.e. all regions that may have been touched
    249   ///        by this change. For a simple bind, this list will be the same as
    250   ///        \p ExplicitRegions, since a bind does not affect the contents of
    251   ///        anything accessible through the base region.
    252   /// \param Call The opaque call triggering this invalidation. Will be 0 if the
    253   ///        change was not triggered by a call.
    254   ///
    255   /// Note that this callback will not be invoked unless
    256   /// #wantsRegionChangeUpdate returns \c true.
    257   ///
    258   /// check::RegionChanges
    259   ProgramStateRef
    260     checkRegionChanges(ProgramStateRef State,
    261                        const InvalidatedSymbols *Invalidated,
    262                        ArrayRef<const MemRegion *> ExplicitRegions,
    263                        ArrayRef<const MemRegion *> Regions,
    264                        const CallEvent *Call) const {
    265     return State;
    266   }
    267 
    268   /// \brief Called when pointers escape.
    269   ///
    270   /// This notifies the checkers about pointer escape, which occurs whenever
    271   /// the analyzer cannot track the symbol any more. For example, as a
    272   /// result of assigning a pointer into a global or when it's passed to a
    273   /// function call the analyzer cannot model.
    274   ///
    275   /// \param State The state at the point of escape.
    276   /// \param Escaped The list of escaped symbols.
    277   /// \param Call The corresponding CallEvent, if the symbols escape as
    278   /// parameters to the given call.
    279   /// \param Kind How the symbols have escaped.
    280   /// \returns Checkers can modify the state by returning a new state.
    281   ProgramStateRef checkPointerEscape(ProgramStateRef State,
    282                                      const InvalidatedSymbols &Escaped,
    283                                      const CallEvent *Call,
    284                                      PointerEscapeKind Kind) const {
    285     return State;
    286   }
    287 
    288   /// \brief Called when const pointers escape.
    289   ///
    290   /// Note: in most cases checkPointerEscape callback is sufficient.
    291   /// \sa checkPointerEscape
    292   ProgramStateRef checkConstPointerEscape(ProgramStateRef State,
    293                                      const InvalidatedSymbols &Escaped,
    294                                      const CallEvent *Call,
    295                                      PointerEscapeKind Kind) const {
    296     return State;
    297   }
    298 
    299   /// check::Event<ImplicitNullDerefEvent>
    300   void checkEvent(ImplicitNullDerefEvent Event) const {}
    301 
    302   /// \brief Check every declaration in the AST.
    303   ///
    304   /// An AST traversal callback, which should only be used when the checker is
    305   /// not path sensitive. It will be called for every Declaration in the AST and
    306   /// can be specialized to only be called on subclasses of Decl, for example,
    307   /// FunctionDecl.
    308   ///
    309   /// check::ASTDecl<FunctionDecl>
    310   void checkASTDecl(const FunctionDecl *D,
    311                     AnalysisManager &Mgr,
    312                     BugReporter &BR) const {}
    313 
    314 };
    315 
    316 void CheckerDocumentation::checkPostStmt(const DeclStmt *DS,
    317                                          CheckerContext &C) const {
    318   return;
    319 }
    320 
    321 } // end namespace ento
    322 } // end namespace clang
    323