[PATCH v5 1/2] check-uapi: Introduce check-uapi.sh

John Moon
2023-04-07T20:36:47Z

While the kernel community has been good at maintaining backwards
compatibility with kernel UAPIs, it would be helpful to have a tool
to check if a commit introduces changes that break backwards
compatibility.

To that end, introduce check-uapi.sh: a simple shell script that
checks for changes to UAPI headers using libabigail.

libabigail is "a framework which aims at helping developers and
software distributors to spot some ABI-related issues like interface
incompatibility in ELF shared libraries by performing a static
analysis of the ELF binaries at hand."

The script uses one of libabigail's tools, "abidiff", to compile the
changed header before and after the commit to detect any changes.

abidiff "compares the ABI of two shared libraries in ELF format. It
emits a meaningful report describing the differences between the two
ABIs."

The script also includes the ability to check the compatibility of
all UAPI headers across commits. This allows developers to inspect
the stability of the UAPIs over time.

Signed-off-by: John Moon <quic_johmoo@quicinc.com>
---
- Improved git tree restore operation by going back to a user's
branch if they were on one. This is better than returning to a
detached commit.
- Fixed bitwise AND check syntax which failed with earlier versions
of Bash.
- Removed suppression of "make headers_install" stderr for better
user feedback.
- Made handling of -q flag more elegant.

scripts/check-uapi.sh | 489 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 489 insertions(+)
create mode 100755 scripts/check-uapi.sh

diff --git a/scripts/check-uapi.sh b/scripts/check-uapi.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..755187f27be5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/check-uapi.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+# Script to check commits for UAPI backwards compatibility
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o pipefail
+
+print_usage() {
+ name=$(basename "$0")
+ cat << EOF
+$name - check for UAPI header stability across Git commits
+
+By default, the script will check to make sure the latest commit (or current
+dirty changes) did not introduce ABI changes when compared to HEAD^1. You can
+check against additional commit ranges with the -b and -p options.
+
+The script will not check UAPI headers for architectures other than the one
+defined in ARCH.
+
+Usage: $name [-b BASE_REF] [-p PAST_REF] [-j N] [-l ERROR_LOG] [-q] [-v]
+
+Options:
+ -b BASE_REF Base git reference to use for comparison. If unspecified or empty,
+ will use any dirty changes in tree to UAPI files. If there are no
+ dirty changes, HEAD will be used.
+ -p PAST_REF Compare BASE_REF to PAST_REF (e.g. -p v6.1). If unspecified or empty,
+ will use BASE_REF^1. Must be an ancestor of BASE_REF. Only headers
+ that exist on PAST_REF will be checked for compatibility.
+ -j JOBS Number of checks to run in parallel (default: number of CPU cores).
+ -l ERROR_LOG Write error log to file (default: no error log is generated).
+ -q Quiet operation (suppress all stdout, still print stderr).
+ -v Verbose operation (print more information about each header being checked).
+
+Environmental args:
+ ABIDIFF Custom path to abidiff binary
+ CC C compiler (default is "gcc")
+ ARCH Target architecture of C compiler (default is host arch)
+
+Exit codes:
+ $SUCCESS) Success
+ $FAIL_ABI) ABI difference detected
+ $FAIL_PREREQ) Prerequisite not met
+ $FAIL_COMPILE) Compilation error
+EOF
+}
+
+readonly SUCCESS=0
+readonly FAIL_ABI=1
+readonly FAIL_PREREQ=2
+readonly FAIL_COMPILE=3
+
+# Print to stderr
+eprintf() {
+ # shellcheck disable=SC2059
+ printf "$@" >&2
+}
+
+# Check if git tree is dirty
+tree_is_dirty() {
+ if git diff --quiet; then
+ return 1
+ else
+ return 0
+ fi
+}
+
+# Get list of files installed in $ref
+get_file_list() {
+ local -r ref="$1"
+ local -r tree="$(get_header_tree "$ref")"
+
+ # Print all installed headers, filtering out ones that can't be compiled
+ find "$tree" -type f -name '*.h' -printf '%P\n' | grep -v -f "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+}
+
+# Add to the list of incompatible headers
+add_to_incompat_list() {
+ local -r ref="$1"
+
+ # Start with the usr/include/Makefile to get a list of the headers
+ # that don't compile using this method.
+ if [ ! -f usr/include/Makefile ]; then
+ eprintf "error - no usr/include/Makefile present at %s\n" "$ref"
+ eprintf "Note: usr/include/Makefile was added in the v5.3 kernel release\n"
+ exit "$FAIL_PREREQ"
+ fi
+ {
+ # shellcheck disable=SC2016
+ printf 'all: ; @echo $(no-header-test)\n'
+ cat usr/include/Makefile
+ } | SRCARCH="$ARCH" make -f - | tr " " "\n" | grep -v "asm-generic" >> "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+
+ # The makefile also skips all asm-generic files, but prints "asm-generic/%"
+ # which won't work for our grep match. Instead, print something grep will match.
+ printf "asm-generic/.*\.h\n" >> "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+
+ sort -u -o "$INCOMPAT_LIST" "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+}
+
+# Compile the simple test app
+do_compile() {
+ local -r inc_dir="$1"
+ local -r header="$2"
+ local -r out="$3"
+ printf "int main(void) { return 0; }\n" | \
+ "$CC" -c \
+ -o "$out" \
+ -x c \
+ -O0 \
+ -std=c90 \
+ -fno-eliminate-unused-debug-types \
+ -g \
+ "-I${inc_dir}" \
+ -include "$header" \
+ -
+}
+
+# Save the current git tree state, stashing if needed
+save_tree_state() {
+ printf "Saving current tree state... "
+ current_ref="$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2> /dev/null || git rev-parse HEAD)"
+ readonly current_ref
+ if tree_is_dirty; then
+ unstash="true"
+ git stash push --quiet
+ fi
+ printf "OK\n"
+}
+
+# Restore the git tree state, unstashing if needed
+restore_tree_state() {
+ if [ -z "$current_ref" ]; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+
+ printf "Restoring current tree state... "
+ git checkout --quiet "$current_ref"
+ if [ "$unstash" = "true" ]; then
+ git stash pop --quiet
+ unstash="false"
+ fi
+ printf "OK\n"
+}
+
+# Handle exit cleanup
+exit_handler() {
+ if [ "$DEVIATED_FROM_CURRENT_TREE" = "true" ]; then
+ restore_tree_state
+ fi
+
+ rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
+}
+
+# Install headers for both git refs
+install_headers() {
+ local -r base_ref="$1"
+ local -r past_ref="$2"
+
+ DEVIATED_FROM_CURRENT_TREE="false"
+ for ref in "$base_ref" "$past_ref"; do
+ if [ -n "$ref" ]; then
+ if [ "$DEVIATED_FROM_CURRENT_TREE" = "false" ]; then
+ save_tree_state
+ DEVIATED_FROM_CURRENT_TREE="true"
+ fi
+ # This script ($0) is already loaded into memory at this point,
+ # so this operation is safe
+ git checkout --quiet "$(git rev-parse "$ref")"
+ fi
+
+ printf "Installing sanitized UAPI headers from %s... " "${ref:-dirty tree}"
+ make -j "$MAX_THREADS" ARCH="$ARCH" INSTALL_HDR_PATH="${TMP_DIR}/${ref}/usr" headers_install > /dev/null
+ printf "OK\n"
+
+ # Add to list of incompatible headers while we have $ref checked out
+ add_to_incompat_list "$ref" "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+ done
+
+ restore_tree_state
+ DEVIATED_FROM_CURRENT_TREE="false"
+}
+
+# Print the path to the headers_install tree for a given ref
+get_header_tree() {
+ local -r ref="$1"
+ printf "%s" "${TMP_DIR}/${ref}/usr"
+}
+
+# Check file list for UAPI compatibility
+check_uapi_files() {
+ local -r base_ref="$1"
+ local -r past_ref="$2"
+
+ local passed=0;
+ local failed=0;
+ local -a threads=()
+
+ printf "Checking changes to UAPI headers between %s and %s\n" "$past_ref" "${base_ref:-dirty tree}"
+ # Loop over all UAPI headers that were installed by $past_ref (if they only exist on $base_ref,
+ # there's no way they're broken and no way to compare anyway)
+ while read -r file; do
+ if [ "${#threads[@]}" -ge "$MAX_THREADS" ]; then
+ if wait "${threads[0]}"; then
+ passed=$((passed + 1))
+ else
+ failed=$((failed + 1))
+ fi
+ threads=("${threads[@]:1}")
+ fi
+
+ check_individual_file "$base_ref" "$past_ref" "$file" &
+ threads+=("$!")
+ done < <(get_file_list "$past_ref")
+
+ for t in "${threads[@]}"; do
+ if wait "$t"; then
+ passed=$((passed + 1))
+ else
+ failed=$((failed + 1))
+ fi
+ done
+
+ total="$((passed + failed))"
+ if [ "$failed" -gt 0 ]; then
+ eprintf "error - %d/%d UAPI headers compatible with %s appear _not_ to be backwards compatible\n" "$failed" "$total" "$ARCH"
+ else
+ printf "All %d UAPI headers compatible with %s appear to be backwards compatible\n" "$total" "$ARCH"
+ fi
+
+ return "$failed"
+}
+
+# Check an individual file for UAPI compatibility
+check_individual_file() {
+ local -r base_ref="$1"
+ local -r past_ref="$2"
+ local -r file="$3"
+
+ local -r base_header="$(get_header_tree "$base_ref")/${file}"
+ local -r past_header="$(get_header_tree "$past_ref")/${file}"
+
+ if [ ! -f "$base_header" ]; then
+ printf "error - UAPI header %s was incorrectly removed\n" "$file" | tee "${base_header}.error" >&2
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ compare_abi "$file" "$base_header" "$past_header" "$base_ref" "$past_ref"
+}
+
+# Perform the A/B compilation and compare output ABI
+compare_abi() {
+ local -r file="$1"
+ local -r base_header="$2"
+ local -r past_header="$3"
+ local -r base_ref="$4"
+ local -r past_ref="$5"
+ local -r log="${TMP_DIR}/log/${file}.log"
+
+ mkdir -p "$(dirname "$log")"
+
+ if ! do_compile "$(get_header_tree "$base_ref")/include" "$base_header" "${base_header}.bin" 2> "$log"; then
+ eprintf "error - couldn't compile version of UAPI header %s at %s\n" "$file" "$base_ref"
+ cat "$log" >&2
+ exit "$FAIL_COMPILE"
+ fi
+
+ if ! do_compile "$(get_header_tree "$past_ref")/include" "$past_header" "${past_header}.bin" 2> "$log"; then
+ eprintf "error - couldn't compile version of UAPI header %s at %s\n" "$file" "$past_ref"
+ cat "$log" >&2
+ exit "$FAIL_COMPILE"
+ fi
+
+ local ret=0
+ "$ABIDIFF" --non-reachable-types "${past_header}.bin" "${base_header}.bin" > "$log" || ret="$?"
+ if [ "$ret" -eq 0 ]; then
+ if [ "$VERBOSE" = "true" ]; then
+ printf "No ABI differences detected in %s from %s -> %s\n" "$file" "$past_ref" "${base_ref:-dirty tree}"
+ fi
+ else
+ # Bits in abidiff's return code can be used to determine the type of error
+ if [ $((ret & 0x1)) -gt 0 ]; then
+ eprintf "error - abidiff did not run properly\n"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+
+ # If the only changes were additions (not modifications to existing APIs), then
+ # there's no problem. Ignore these diffs.
+ if grep "Unreachable types summary" "$log" | grep -q "0 removed" &&
+ grep "Unreachable types summary" "$log" | grep -q "0 changed"; then
+ return 0
+ fi
+ {
+ printf "!!! ABI differences detected in %s from %s -> %s !!!\n\n" "$file" "$past_ref" "${base_ref:-dirty tree}"
+ sed -e '/summary:/d' -e '/changed type/d' -e '/^$/d' -e 's/^/ /g' "$log"
+
+ if ! cmp "$past_header" "$base_header" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ printf "\nHeader file diff (after headers_install):\n"
+ diff -Naur "$past_header" "$base_header" \
+ | sed -e "s|${past_header}|${past_ref}/${file}|g" \
+ -e "s|${base_header}|${base_ref:-dirty}/${file}|g"
+ printf "\n"
+ else
+ printf "\n%s did not change between %s and %s...\n" "$file" "$past_ref" "${base_ref:-dirty tree}"
+ printf "It's possible a change to one of the headers it includes caused this error:\n"
+ grep '^#include' "$base_header"
+ printf "\n"
+ fi
+ } | tee "${base_header}.error" >&2
+ return 1
+ fi
+}
+
+min_version_is_satisfied() {
+ local -r min_version="$1"
+ local -r version_installed="$2"
+
+ printf "%s\n%s\n" "$min_version" "$version_installed" | sort -Vc > /dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+# Make sure we have the tools we need and the arguments make sense
+check_deps() {
+ ABIDIFF="${ABIDIFF:-abidiff}"
+ CC="${CC:-gcc}"
+ ARCH="${ARCH:-$(uname -m)}"
+ if [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+ ARCH="x86"
+ fi
+
+ local -r abidiff_min_version="1.7"
+ local -r libdw_min_version_if_clang="0.171"
+
+ if ! command -v "$ABIDIFF" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ eprintf "error - abidiff not found!\n"
+ eprintf "Please install abigail-tools version %s or greater\n" "$abidiff_min_version"
+ eprintf "See: https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/libabigail-overview.html\n"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ local -r abidiff_version="$("$ABIDIFF" --version | cut -d ' ' -f 2)"
+ if ! min_version_is_satisfied "$abidiff_min_version" "$abidiff_version"; then
+ eprintf "error - abidiff version too old: %s\n" "$abidiff_version"
+ eprintf "Please install abigail-tools version %s or greater\n" "$abidiff_min_version"
+ eprintf "See: https://sourceware.org/libabigail/manual/libabigail-overview.html\n"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if ! command -v "$CC" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ eprintf 'error - %s not found\n' "$CC"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if "$CC" --version | grep -q clang; then
+ local -r libdw_version="$(ldconfig -v 2>/dev/null | grep -v SKIPPED | grep -m 1 -o 'libdw-[0-9]\+.[0-9]\+' | cut -c 7-)"
+ if ! min_version_is_satisfied "$libdw_min_version_if_clang" "$libdw_version"; then
+ eprintf "error - libdw version too old for use with clang: %s\n" "$libdw_version"
+ eprintf "Please install libdw from elfutils version %s or greater\n" "$libdw_min_version_if_clang"
+ eprintf "See: https://sourceware.org/elfutils/\n"
+ return 1
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ if [ ! -d "arch/${ARCH}" ]; then
+ eprintf 'error - ARCH "%s" is not a subdirectory under arch/\n' "$ARCH"
+ eprintf "Please set ARCH to one of:\n%s\n" "$(find arch -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f ' | fmt)"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ eprintf "error - this script requires the kernel tree to be initialized with Git\n"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if ! git rev-parse --verify "$past_ref" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ printf 'error - invalid git reference "%s"\n' "$past_ref"
+ return 1
+ fi
+
+ if [ -n "$base_ref" ]; then
+ if ! git merge-base --is-ancestor "$past_ref" "$base_ref" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ printf 'error - "%s" is not an ancestor of base ref "%s"\n' "$past_ref" "$base_ref"
+ return 1
+ fi
+ if [ "$(git rev-parse "$base_ref")" = "$(git rev-parse "$past_ref")" ]; then
+ printf 'error - "%s" and "%s" are the same reference\n' "$past_ref" "$base_ref"
+ return 1
+ fi
+ fi
+}
+
+run() {
+ local base_ref="$1"
+ local past_ref="$2"
+ local abi_error_log="$3"
+ shift 3
+
+ if [ -z "$KERNEL_SRC" ]; then
+ KERNEL_SRC="$(realpath "$(dirname "$0")"/..)"
+ fi
+
+ cd "$KERNEL_SRC"
+
+ if [ -z "$base_ref" ] && ! tree_is_dirty; then
+ base_ref=HEAD
+ fi
+
+ if [ -z "$past_ref" ]; then
+ if [ -n "$base_ref" ]; then
+ past_ref="${base_ref}^1"
+ else
+ past_ref=HEAD
+ fi
+ fi
+
+ if ! check_deps; then
+ exit "$FAIL_PREREQ"
+ fi
+
+ TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
+ readonly TMP_DIR
+ trap 'exit_handler' EXIT
+
+ readonly INCOMPAT_LIST="${TMP_DIR}/incompat_list.txt"
+ touch "$INCOMPAT_LIST"
+
+ # Run make install_headers for both refs
+ install_headers "$base_ref" "$past_ref"
+
+ # Check for any differences in the installed header trees
+ if diff -r -q "$(get_header_tree "$base_ref")" "$(get_header_tree "$past_ref")" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+ printf "No changes to UAPI headers were applied between %s and %s\n" "$past_ref" "${base_ref:-dirty tree}"
+ exit "$SUCCESS"
+ fi
+
+ if ! check_uapi_files "$base_ref" "$past_ref"; then
+ eprintf "error - UAPI header ABI check failed\n"
+ if [ -n "$abi_error_log" ]; then
+ {
+ printf 'Generated by "%s %s" from git ref %s\n\n' "$0" "$*" "$(git rev-parse HEAD)"
+ find "$TMP_DIR" -type f -name '*.error' -exec cat {} +
+ } > "$abi_error_log"
+ eprintf "Failure summary saved to %s\n" "$abi_error_log"
+ fi
+ exit "$FAIL_ABI"
+ fi
+}
+
+main() {
+ MAX_THREADS=$(nproc)
+ VERBOSE="false"
+ local base_ref=""
+ local quiet="false"
+ while getopts "hb:p:mj:l:qv" opt; do
+ case $opt in
+ h)
+ print_usage
+ exit "$SUCCESS"
+ ;;
+ b)
+ base_ref="$OPTARG"
+ ;;
+ p)
+ past_ref="$OPTARG"
+ ;;
+ j)
+ MAX_THREADS="$OPTARG"
+ ;;
+ l)
+ abi_error_log="$OPTARG"
+ ;;
+ q)
+ quiet="true"
+ ;;
+ v)
+ VERBOSE="true"
+ ;;
+ *)
+ exit "$FAIL_PREREQ"
+ esac
+ done
+
+
+ if [ "$quiet" = "true" ]; then
+ exec > /dev/null
+ fi
+
+ run "$base_ref" "$past_ref" "$abi_error_log" "$@"
+}
+
+main "$@"
--
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