tests: add a test mode for SANITIZE=leak, run it in CI

While git can be compiled with SANITIZE=leak, we have not run
regression tests under that mode. Memory leaks have only been fixed as
one-offs without structured regression testing.

This change adds CI testing for it. We'll now build and small set of
whitelisted t00*.sh tests under Linux with a new job called
"linux-leaks".

The CI target uses a new GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true test
mode. When running in that mode, we'll assert that we were compiled
with SANITIZE=leak. We'll then skip all tests, except those that we've
opted-in by setting "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true".

A test setting "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" setting can in turn
make use of the "SANITIZE_LEAK" prerequisite, should they wish to
selectively skip tests even under
"GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true". In the preceding commit we
started doing this in "t0004-unwritable.sh" under SANITIZE=leak, now
it'll combine nicely with "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true".

This is how tests that don't set "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" will
be skipped under GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true:

    $ GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true ./t0001-init.sh
    1..0 # SKIP skip all tests in t0001 under SANITIZE=leak, TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK not set

The intent is to add more TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true annotations
as follow-up change, but let's start small to begin with.

In ci/run-build-and-tests.sh we make use of the default "*" case to
run "make test" without any GIT_TEST_* modes. SANITIZE=leak is known
to fail in combination with GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=true in
t0016-oidmap.sh, and we're likely to have other such failures in
various GIT_TEST_* modes. Let's focus on getting the base tests
passing, we can expand coverage to GIT_TEST_* modes later.

It would also be possible to implement a more lightweight version of
this by only relying on setting "LSAN_OPTIONS". See
<YS9OT/[email protected]>[1] and
<[email protected]>[2] for a discussion of
that. I've opted for this approach of adding a GIT_TEST_* mode instead
because it's consistent with how we handle other special test modes.

Being able to add a "!SANITIZE_LEAK" prerequisite and calling
"test_done" early if it isn't satisfied also means that we can more
incrementally add regression tests without being forced to fix
widespread and hard-to-fix leaks at the same time.

We have tests that do simple checking of some tool we're interested
in, but later on in the script might be stressing trace2, or common
sources of leaks like "git log" in combination with the tool (e.g. the
commit-graph tests). To be clear having a prerequisite could also be
accomplished by using "LSAN_OPTIONS" directly.

On the topic of "LSAN_OPTIONS": It would be nice to have a mode to
aggregate all failures in our various scripts, see [2] for a start at
doing that which sets "log_path" in "LSAN_OPTIONS". I've punted on
that for now, it can be added later.

As of writing this we've got major regressions between master..seen,
i.e. the t000*.sh tests and more fixed since 31f9acf (Merge branch
'ah/plugleaks', 2021-08-04) have regressed recently.

See the discussion at <[email protected]>[3] about
the lack of this sort of test mode, and 0e5bba5 (add UNLEAK
annotation for reducing leak false positives, 2017-09-08) for the
initial addition of SANITIZE=leak.

See also 09595ab (Merge branch 'jk/leak-checkers', 2017-09-19),
7782066 (Merge branch 'jk/apache-lsan', 2019-05-19) and the recent
936e588 (Merge branch 'ah/plugleaks', 2021-05-07) for some of the
past history of "one-off" SANITIZE=leak (and more) fixes.

As noted in [5] we can't support this on OSX yet until Clang 14 is
released, at that point we'll probably want to resurrect that
"osx-leaks" job.

1. https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerLeakSanitizer
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/YS9OT%[email protected]/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/
4. https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/
5. https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email protected]/

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: avar

.github/workflows/main.yml

@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ jobs:
           - jobname: linux-gcc-default
             cc: gcc
             pool: ubuntu-latest
+          - jobname: linux-leaks
+            cc: gcc
+            pool: ubuntu-latest
     env:
       CC: ${{matrix.vector.cc}}
       jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}}

ci/install-dependencies.sh

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ UBUNTU_COMMON_PKGS="make libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev
  libemail-valid-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl"
 
 case "$jobname" in
-linux-clang|linux-gcc)
+linux-clang|linux-gcc|linux-leaks)
 	sudo apt-add-repository -y "ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test"
 	sudo apt-get -q update
 	sudo apt-get -q -y install language-pack-is libsvn-perl apache2 \

ci/lib.sh

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ export GIT_TEST_CLONE_2GB=true
 export SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS=YesPlease
 
 case "$jobname" in
-linux-clang|linux-gcc)
+linux-clang|linux-gcc|linux-leaks)
 	if [ "$jobname" = linux-gcc ]
 	then
 		export CC=gcc-8
@@ -233,4 +233,11 @@ linux-musl)
 	;;
 esac
 
+case "$jobname" in
+linux-leaks)
+	export SANITIZE=leak
+	export GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
+	;;
+esac
+
 MAKEFLAGS="$MAKEFLAGS CC=${CC:-cc}"

t/README

@@ -366,6 +366,13 @@ excluded as so much relies on it, but this might change in the future.
 GIT_TEST_SPLIT_INDEX=<boolean> forces split-index mode on the whole
 test suite. Accept any boolean values that are accepted by git-config.
 
+GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=<boolean> when compiled with
+SANITIZE=leak will run only those tests that have whitelisted
+themselves as passing with no memory leaks. Tests can be whitelisted
+by setting "TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true" before sourcing
+"test-lib.sh" itself at the top of the test script. This test mode is
+used by the "linux-leaks" CI target.
+
 GIT_TEST_PROTOCOL_VERSION=<n>, when set, makes 'protocol.version'
 default to n.
 

t/t0004-unwritable.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 test_description='detect unwritable repository and fail correctly'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_expect_success setup '

t/t0011-hashmap.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 test_description='test hashmap and string hash functions'
+
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_hashmap() {

t/t0016-oidmap.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 test_description='test oidmap'
+
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 # This purposefully is very similar to t0011-hashmap.sh

t/t0017-env-helper.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 test_description='test env--helper'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 

t/t0018-advice.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 test_description='Test advise_if_enabled functionality'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_expect_success 'advice should be printed when config variable is unset' '

t/t0030-stripspace.sh

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 test_description='git stripspace'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 t40='A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy do'

t/t0063-string-list.sh

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 test_description='Test string list functionality'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 test_split () {

t/t0091-bugreport.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 test_description='git bugreport'
 
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 # Headers "[System Info]" will be followed by a non-empty line if we put some

t/test-lib.sh

@@ -1379,6 +1379,26 @@ then
 	test_done
 fi
 
+# skip non-whitelisted tests when compiled with SANITIZE=leak
+if test -n "$SANITIZE_LEAK"
+then
+	if test_bool_env GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK false
+	then
+		# We need to see it in "git env--helper" (via
+		# test_bool_env)
+		export TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK
+
+		if ! test_bool_env TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK false
+		then
+			skip_all="skipping $this_test under GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true"
+			test_done
+		fi
+	fi
+elif test_bool_env GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK false
+then
+	error "GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK=true has no effect except when compiled with SANITIZE=leak"
+fi
+
 # Last-minute variable setup
 HOME="$TRASH_DIRECTORY"
 GNUPGHOME="$HOME/gnupg-home-not-used"