In 2f732bf15e (tr2: log parent process name, 2021-07-21) we started
logging parent process names, but only logged all parents on Windows.
on Linux only the name of the immediate parent process was logged.
Extend the functionality added there to also log full parent chain on
Linux.
This requires us to lookup "/proc/<getppid()>/stat" instead of
"/proc/<getppid()>/comm". The "comm" file just contains the name of the
process, but the "stat" file has both that information, and the parent
PID of that process, see procfs(5). We parse out the parent PID of our
own parent, and recursively walk the chain of "/proc/*/stat" files all
the way up the chain. A parent PID of 0 indicates the end of the
chain.
It's possible given the semantics of Linux's PID files that we end up
getting an entirely nonsensical chain of processes. It could happen if
e.g. we have a chain of processes like:
1 (init) => 321 (bash) => 123 (git)
Let's assume that "bash" was started a while ago, and that as shown
the OS has already cycled back to using a lower PID for us than our
parent process. In the time it takes us to start up and get to
trace2_collect_process_info(TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_STARTUP) our parent
process might exit, and be replaced by an entirely different process!
We'd racily look up our own getppid(), but in the meantime our parent
would exit, and Linux would have cycled all the way back to starting
an entirely unrelated process as PID 321.
If that happens we'll just silently log incorrect data in our ancestry
chain. Luckily we don't need to worry about this except in this
specific cycling scenario, as Linux does not have PID
randomization. It appears it once did through a third-party feature,
but that it was removed around 2006[1]. For anyone worried about this
edge case raising PID_MAX via "/proc/sys/kernel/pid_max" will mitigate
it, but not eliminate it.
One thing we don't need to worry about is getting into an infinite
loop when walking "/proc/*/stat". See 353d3d77f4 (trace2: collect
Windows-specific process information, 2019-02-22) for the related
Windows code that needs to deal with that, and [2] for an explanation
of that edge case.
Aside from potential race conditions it's also a bit painful to
correctly parse the process name out of "/proc/*/stat". A simpler
approach is to use fscanf(), see [3] for an implementation of that,
but as noted in the comment being added here it would fail in the face
of some weird process names, so we need our own parse_proc_stat() to
parse it out.
With this patch the "ancestry" chain for a trace2 event might look
like this:
$ GIT_TRACE2_EVENT=/dev/stdout ~/g/git/git version | grep ancestry | jq -r .ancestry
[
"bash",
"screen",
"systemd"
]
And in the case of naughty process names like the following. This uses
perl's ability to use prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...). See
Perl/perl5@7636ea95c5 (Set the legacy process name with prctl() on
assignment to $0 on Linux, 2010-04-15)[4]:
$ perl -e '$0 = "(naughty\nname)"; system "GIT_TRACE2_EVENT=/dev/stdout ~/g/git/git version"' | grep ancestry | jq -r .ancestry
[
"sh",
"(naughty\nname)",
"bash",
"screen",
"systemd"
]
1. https://grsecurity.net/news#grsec2110
2. https://lore.kernel.org/git/48a62d5e-28e2-7103-a5bb-5db7e197a4b9@jeffhostetler.com/
3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87o8agp29o.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
4. 7636ea95c5
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Change code added in 2f732bf15e (tr2: log parent process name,
2021-07-21) to use a switch statement without a "default" branch to
have the compiler error if this code ever drifts out of sync with the
members of the "enum trace2_process_info_reason".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In a subsequent commit I'll be replacing most of this code to log N
parents, but let's first fix bugs introduced in the recent
2f732bf15e (tr2: log parent process name, 2021-07-21).
It was using the strbuf_read_file() in the wrong way, its return value
is either a length or a negative value on error. If we didn't have a
procfs, or otherwise couldn't access it we'd end up pushing an empty
string to the trace2 ancestry array.
It was also using the strvec_push() API the wrong way. That API always
does an xstrdup(), so by detaching the strbuf here we'd leak
memory. Let's instead pass in our pointer for strvec_push() to
xstrdup(), and then free our own strbuf. I do have some WIP changes to
make strvec_push_nodup() non-static, which makes this and some other
callsites nicer, but let's just follow the prevailing pattern of using
strvec_push() for now.
We'll also need to free that "procfs_path" strbuf whether or not
strbuf_read_file() succeeds, which was another source of memory leaks
in 2f732bf15e, i.e. we'd leak that memory as well if we weren't on a
system where we could read the file from procfs.
Let's move all the freeing of the memory to the end of the
function. If we're still at STRBUF_INIT with "name" due to not having
taken the branch where the strbuf_read_file() succeeds freeing it is
redundant. So we could move it into the body of the "if", but just
handling freeing the same way for all branches of the function makes
it more readable.
In combination with the preceding commit this makes all of
t[0-9]*trace2*.sh pass under SANITIZE=leak on Linux.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rewrite a comment added in 2f732bf15e (tr2: log parent process name,
2021-07-21) to describe what we might do under
TRACE2_PROCESS_INFO_EXIT in the future, instead of vaguely referring
to "something extra".
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
I'm fairly sure that there is no way on Linux to inspect the process
tree without using procfs, any tool such as ps(1), top(1) etc. that
shows this sort of information ultimately looks the information up in
procfs.
So let's remove this comment added in 2f732bf15e (tr2: log parent
process name, 2021-07-21), it's setting us up for an impossible task.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It can be useful to tell who invoked Git - was it invoked manually by a
user via CLI or script? By an IDE? In some cases - like 'repo' tool -
we can influence the source code and set the GIT_TRACE2_PARENT_SID
environment variable from the caller process. In 'repo''s case, that
parent SID is manipulated to include the string "repo", which means we
can positively identify when Git was invoked by 'repo' tool. However,
identifying parents that way requires both that we know which tools
invoke Git and that we have the ability to modify the source code of
those tools. It cannot scale to keep up with the various IDEs and
wrappers which use Git, most of which we don't know about. Learning
which tools and wrappers invoke Git, and how, would give us insight to
decide where to improve Git's usability and performance.
Unfortunately, there's no cross-platform reliable way to gather the name
of the parent process. If procfs is present, we can use that; otherwise
we will need to discover the name another way. However, the process ID
should be sufficient to look up the process name on most platforms, so
that code may be shareable.
Git for Windows gathers similar information and logs it as a "data_json"
event. However, since "data_json" has a variable format, it is difficult
to parse effectively in some languages; instead, let's pursue a
dedicated "cmd_ancestry" event to record information about the ancestry
of the current process and a consistent, parseable way.
Git for Windows also gathers information about more than one generation
of parent. In Linux further ancestry info can be gathered with procfs,
but it's unwieldy to do so. In the interest of later moving Git for
Windows ancestry logging to the 'cmd_ancestry' event, and in the
interest of later adding more ancestry to the Linux implementation - or
of adding this functionality to other platforms which have an easier
time walking the process tree - let's make 'cmd_ancestry' accept an
array of parentage.
Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason