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panic when an interpreter error gets unintentionally discarded #130885

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One important invariant of Miri is that when an interpreter error is raised (in particular a UB error), those must not be discarded: it's not okay to just check foo().is_err() and then continue executing.

This seems to catch new contributors by surprise fairly regularly, so this PR tries to make it so that if this ever happens, we get a panic rather than a silent missed UB bug. The interpreter error type now contains a "guard" that panics on drop, and that is explicitly passed to mem::forget when an error is deliberately discarded.

Fixes rust-lang/miri#3855

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The annoying thing is that all the MIR transforms need to use discard_interp_error() instead of ok() now, and if they forget that that's a lurking ICE.

An alternative approach would be to use TLS to track whether the current interpreter has raised an error, and then on the next interpreter step complain if we are still running. But that means more global state, and we'll have to handle the situation of multiple interpreters on the same thread (they should be well-nested, at least) -- so it's not beautiful either.

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Could we configure whether InterpErrors are "explosive" in the InterpCx? I'd ideally like to see MIR opts just do InterpCx::new(...).ignore_interp_errors() or something when interfacing with const eval. Or would this still be violating some invariant you'd like to see enforced in MIR opts?

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Ah damn, a clippy failure... those are always so painful to fix due to #78717 :/

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I like this change in theory, but I do fear that it introduces a new class of somewhat easy to introduce ICEs with much of a "guardrail" to avoid it...

@@ -573,7 +587,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> Collector<'a, 'tcx> {
map: &Map<'tcx>,
) -> Option<Const<'tcx>> {
let ty = place.ty(self.local_decls, self.patch.tcx).ty;
let layout = ecx.layout_of(ty).ok()?;
let layout = ecx.layout_of(ty).discard_interp_error()?;
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I wonder if this should just call into self.tcx.layout_of -- having a layout_of query return an InterpResult that needs to be defused seems odd, imo.

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We could do that but then we have to pass the ParamEnv by hand. It doesn't mak the code shorter, overall.

There's a lot of code that has TyCtx + ParamEnv but sadly no commonly used type to pack the two leading to a lot of issues like this. :/

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Could we configure whether InterpErrors are "explosive" in the InterpCx? I'd ideally like to see MIR opts just do InterpCx::new(...).ignore_interp_errors() or something when interfacing with const eval. Or would this still be violating some invariant you'd like to see enforced in MIR opts?

TrackElem::Field(idx) => self.ecx.project_field(op, idx.as_usize()).ok(),
TrackElem::Variant(idx) => self.ecx.project_downcast(op, idx).ok(),
TrackElem::Field(idx) => {
self.ecx.project_field(op, idx.as_usize()).discard_interp_error()
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Bikeshed: If we can't get rid of all these calls in rustc_mir_transform, perhaps we could at least find a shorter name than discard_interp_error.

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The name must be somewhat scary though or else people might use it in const-eval / miri and not realize what they are doing (and reviewers could easily miss it)...

@@ -557,7 +571,9 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> TOFinder<'a, 'tcx> {
// `SetDiscriminant` may be a no-op if the assigned variant is the untagged variant
// of a niche encoding. If we cannot ensure that we write to the discriminant, do
// nothing.
let Ok(enum_layout) = self.ecx.layout_of(enum_ty) else { return };
let Some(enum_layout) = self.ecx.layout_of(enum_ty).discard_interp_error() else {
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This seems really easy to mix up by writing let Ok(_), as noted above.

I'm not certain the best way to avoid this, except for going way overkill and implementing some custom struct (like not a Result but a struct wrapper that makes the Result inaccessible) that implements Try and forces you to deal with the error by either doing ? (via Try) or .discard_interp_error...

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Yeah that's the only type-based alternative I can think of.

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RalfJung commented Sep 27, 2024

Could we configure whether InterpErrors are "explosive" in the InterpCx?

Unfortunately not, since the code that creates InterpError has no access to the InterpCx.

(Sorry for replying out-of-thread, github as usually has a terrible UI when a review adds a new comment to an existing thread and doesn't make it clear where to reply to a message like this.)

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oli-obk commented Sep 27, 2024

I think this is just going to be a constant source of ICEs. I can already hear the humming of Matthias's fuzzers.

I don't think TLS for a sanity assertion is a problem and would prefer that solution

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I don't think TLS for a sanity assertion is a problem and would prefer that solution

What about the "newtyped Result" option discussed above?
To me that sounds more appealing than global state.

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oli-obk commented Sep 27, 2024

I like it most but assumed from your comments that it was not to your liking.

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Global state is also not to my liking ;)

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Argh I wish we had implicit Ok-wrapping, that would make this so much nicer...

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Okay, I did that now. :D That made the PR... big...

The new InterpResult type still also has a drop guard to panic on drop. This is to guard against things like

let _ = some_op_that_can_cause_ub();

Note that we panic on drop even if the operation succeeded, so while this does risk ICEs, the ICE should occur always when some code is executed, not just sometimes, making it easier to find with tests. And this has indeed found one discarded UB issue in Miri.

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ pub trait EvalContextExt<'tcx>: crate::MiriInterpCxExt<'tcx> {
// The only supported flags are GRND_RANDOM and GRND_NONBLOCK,
// neither of which have any effect on our current PRNG.
// See <https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79196> for a discussion of argument sizes.
let _flags = this.read_scalar(&args[3])?.to_i32();
let _flags = this.read_scalar(&args[3])?.to_i32()?;
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This is the discarded UB issue that was now found -- the final ? was missing.

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@RalfJung RalfJung force-pushed the interp-error-discard branch 2 times, most recently from f5c5e1f to fc32fe9 Compare September 29, 2024 21:08
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☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #131036) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

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oli-obk commented Oct 1, 2024

r=me with or without any more applications of your last change if you want them.

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@bors r=oli-obk

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📌 Commit c4ce8c1 has been approved by oli-obk

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panic when an interpreter error gets unintentionally discarded

One important invariant of Miri is that when an interpreter error is raised (*in particular* a UB error), those must not be discarded: it's not okay to just check `foo().is_err()` and then continue executing.

This seems to catch new contributors by surprise fairly regularly, so this PR tries to make it so that *if* this ever happens, we get a panic rather than a silent missed UB bug. The interpreter error type now contains a "guard" that panics on drop, and that is explicitly passed to `mem::forget` when an error is deliberately discarded.

Fixes rust-lang/miri#3855
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Rollup of 3 pull requests

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 - rust-lang#130885 (panic when an interpreter error gets unintentionally discarded)
 - rust-lang#131108 (Revert rust-lang#131060 "Drop conditionally applied cargo `-Zon-broken-pipe=kill` flags")
 - rust-lang#131121 (A couple of fixes for dataflow graphviz dumps)

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Rollup merge of rust-lang#130885 - RalfJung:interp-error-discard, r=oli-obk

panic when an interpreter error gets unintentionally discarded

One important invariant of Miri is that when an interpreter error is raised (*in particular* a UB error), those must not be discarded: it's not okay to just check `foo().is_err()` and then continue executing.

This seems to catch new contributors by surprise fairly regularly, so this PR tries to make it so that *if* this ever happens, we get a panic rather than a silent missed UB bug. The interpreter error type now contains a "guard" that panics on drop, and that is explicitly passed to `mem::forget` when an error is deliberately discarded.

Fixes rust-lang/miri#3855
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⌛ Testing commit c4ce8c1 with merge 2305aad...

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