This accessor may not be forward-compatible with an IR-based version,
and it's unclear whether it has any use. The `VariableAccess` remains in
the `TDefinitionByReferenceNode` constructor since it's used to
implement `getType`.
A PR check was failing because this query was enabled on LGTM but had no
qhelp. I'm removing the `@precision` for now to take it off LGTM, and
then we can add it back when it has qhelp, tests, and change note.
Thanks to Sam Lanning (@samlanning) and Robert Marsh for taking the time to help
to make it possible. In fact, it was Robert Marsh who effectively
wrote the query and figured out that __builtin_alloca should be
used to also take functions like strdupa into account. I just
filled out the metadata :-)
Before this change, all the cached predicates in `IRGuards.qll` were in
separate cached stages, resulting in recomputation of most of the
library for each stage. This change groups the cached predicates in two
cached classes. A better grouping may be possible, but this grouping was
easy to do and seems to solve the problem.
Before this change, the `IRGuards` library accounted for five cached
stages when using the `RangeAnalysis` library. After this change, it
only accounts for one.
After a `queries.xml` was added to the test directory,
`Container.getRelativePath` now considers source files to be relative to
the `cpp/test` directory rather than the directory of the `*.ql*` file.
This caused some benign test output changes, and it also caused an
unwanted alert for `test3.c:14` to appear in
`cpp/ql/test/query-tests/Security/CWE/CWE-190/semmle/tainted/IntegerOverflowTainted.expected`.
This alert came about because `inSystemMacroExpansion` holds for files
that don't have a relative path, but the pretend system header in
`../system_header` now does have a relative path because it's below the
`cpp/test` directory. The fix is to add another `queries.xml` just for
the directory with the affected test.
This change fixes a few key problems with the existing SSA implementations:
For unaliased SSA, we were incorrectly choosing to model a local variable that had accesses that did not cover the entire variable. This has been changed to ensure that all accesses to the variable are at offset zero and have the same type as the variable itself. This was only possible to fix now that every `MemoryOperand` has its own type.
For aliased SSA, we now correctly track the offset and size of each memory access using an interval of bit offsets covered by the access. The offset interval makes the overlap computation more straightforward. Again, this is only possible now that operands have types.
The `getXXXMemoryAccess` predicates are now driven by the `MemoryAccessKind` on the operands and results, instead of by specific opcodes.
This change does fix an existing false negative in the IR dataflow tests.
I added a few simple test cases to the SSA IR tests, covering the various kinds of overlap (MustExcactly, MustTotally, and MayPartially).
I added "PrintSSA.qll", which can dump the SSA memory accesses as part of an IR dump.
For function parameters that are subject to "pointer decay", the database contains the type as originally declared (e.g. `T[]` instead of `T*`). The IR needs the actual type. Similarly, for variable declared as an array of unknown size, the actual size needs to be inferred from the initializer (e.g. `char a[] = "blah";` needs to have the type `char[5]`).
I've opened a ticket to have the extractor emit the actual type alongside the declared type, but for now, this workaround is enough to unblock progress for typical code.
This change does some shuffling to make the distinction between memory operands and register operands more clear in the IR API. First, any given type that extends `Operand` is now either always a `MemoryOperand` or always a `RegisterOperand`. This required getting rid of `CopySourceOperand`, which was used for both the `CopyValue` instruction (as a `RegisterOperand`) and for the `Load` instruction (as a `MemoryOperand`). `CopyValue` is now just a `UnaryInstruction`, `Store` has a `StoreValueOperand` (`RegisterOperand`), and all of the instructions that read a value from memory indirectly (`Load`, `ReturnValue`, and `ThrowValue`) all now have a `LoadOperand` (`MemoryOperand`).
There are no diffs in the IR output for this commit, but this change is required for a subsequent commit that will make each `MemoryOperand` have a `Type`, which in turn is needed to fix a critical bug in aliased SSA construction.
