This adds support for running the simulator under Miri to detect UB.
There are a few things to note about Miri and its limitations
- It has limited `libc` coverage, so it's not really possible to have
Miri help with `UringIO`/`UringFile` or `UnixIO`/`UnixFile`. That's a
big gap ☹️
- It **can** work for `GenericIO`/`GenericFile`, which only uses `std`
- It can't call external C libraries, so even using `sqlite` is out
(hence adding `--disable-integrity-check` to the simulator for Miri use)
- It runs on nightly, consequently there are a few new lints that don't
exist on turso's pinned version of rustc
Some questions I have about this MR
- I made `GenericFile::{lock_file,unlock_file}` noops so I could use
`GenericIO`. This isn't great, but if/when you update from Rust 1.88.0
to 1.89.0, `std::File::{lock,lock_shared,unlock}` will be stabilized and
available. Should I note that as a TODO or something?
- Previously, the sim runner shelled out to `git` to get stuff like the
current git hash and the repo directory. For Miri, that's out, and so is
`git2`. Unfortunately, `gix` is also out since it has a required
dependency that uses inline assembly, which Miri doesn't like. I wrote a
hacky shim that uses only std to look for `.git` and find the hash that
HEAD is pointing to. It doesn't deal with stuff like packed-refs or the
repo being a secondary one made with `git worktree`. I'm happy to
support that, but wanted to hear from maintainers before doing more
work.
Two UB occurrences I already found:
- `TursoRwLock::read` used `AtomicU64::compare_exchange_weak`, which is
(evidently) [allowed to spuriously fail](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/s
ync/atomic/struct.AtomicU64.html#method.compare_exchange_weak) in
exchange for perf. Miri forces this behavior, which triggers trivial
read deadlocks even with zero readers/writers. I changed it to
`compare_exchange`, but I'm not an atomics expert.
- Uninitialized read in non-Unix
`core::storage::buffer_pool::arena::alloc`. This is a simple one,
resolved by using `std::alloc::alloc_zeroed` instead of
`std::alloc::alloc`
Moving forward, I'd be interested in potentially getting the tests to
run in Miri, too. `tokio` looks like a good example of a project with
partial coverage that runs it where they can. They have some extra test
config to allow as many as possible to run under Miri, with
appropriately scaled-down parameter values since Miri is super slow
Closes#3720
I was trying to debug MVCC simulator and database diffs, and this change
makes it much easier to visualize this. This PR is just a small quality
of life upgrade for debugability.
Reviewed-by: Jussi Saurio <jussi.saurio@gmail.com>
Closes#3548
our AWS nightly sim looks for a line 'simulation failed:' in the process
output to capture context for the github issues it creates.
if the sim passes otherwise but integrity check fails, then this log line
must also be present there, otherwise the aws sim will panic due to not finding
a suitable line.
* Without tracing crate we cannot log anything that happens in
limbo_core
* IO never ran in step loop inside simulator.
* Added update queries (which currently loop forever for some reason I'm
debugging).
