report-converter

report-converter is a Python tool which can be used to create a CodeChecker report directory from the given code analyzer output which can be stored to a CodeChecker server.

Table of Contents

Install guide

# Create a Python virtualenv and set it as your environment.
make venv
source $PWD/venv/bin/activate

# Build and install report-converter package.
make package

Usage

$ report-converter --help (click to expand) 
usage: report-converter [-h] -o OUTPUT_DIR -t TYPE [-e EXPORT]
                        [--meta [META ...]] [--filename FILENAME] [-c] [-v]
                        input [input ...]

Creates a CodeChecker report directory from the given code analyzer output
which can be stored to a CodeChecker web server.

positional arguments:
  input                 Code analyzer output result files or directories which
                        will be parsed and used to generate a CodeChecker
                        report directory.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output OUTPUT_DIR
                        This directory will be used to generate CodeChecker
                        report directory files.
  -t TYPE, --type TYPE  Specify the format of the code analyzer output.
                        Currently supported output types are: asan, clang-tidy,
                        coccinelle, cppcheck, cpplint, eslint, fbinfer, gcc,
                        golint, kernel-doc, lsan, mdl, msan, pyflakes, pylint,
                        roslynator, smatch, sparse, sphinx, spotbugs, tsan,
                        tslint, ubsan.
  -e EXPORT, --export EXPORT
                        Specify the export format of the converted reports.
                        Currently supported export types are: .plist, .sarif.
                        (default: plist)
  --meta [META ...]     Metadata information which will be stored alongside the
                        run when the created report directory will be stored to
                        a running CodeChecker server. It has the following
                        format: key=value. Valid key values are:
                        analyzer_command, analyzer_version. (default: None)
  --filename FILENAME   This option can be used to override the default plist
                        file name output of this tool. This tool can produce
                        multiple plist files on the given code analyzer output
                        result file. The problem is if we run this tool
                        multiple times on the same file, it may override some
                        plist files. To prevent this we can generate a unique
                        hash into the plist file names with this option. For
                        example: '{source_file}_{analyzer}_{file_hash}_xxxxx'.
                        {source_file}, {analyzer} and {file_hash} are special
                        values which will be replaced with the current
                        analyzer, source file name and hash of the absolute
                        file path where the bug was found. (default:
                        {source_file}_{analyzer}_{file_hash})
  -c, --clean           Delete files stored in the output directory. (default:
                        False)
  -v, --verbose         Set verbosity level. (default: False)

Supported analyzers:
  asan - AddressSanitizer, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html
  clang-tidy - Clang Tidy, https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy
  coccinelle - Coccinelle, https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle
  cppcheck - Cppcheck, http://cppcheck.sourceforge.net
  cpplint - cpplint, https://github.com/cpplint/cpplint
  eslint - ESLint, https://eslint.org/
  fbinfer - Facebook Infer, https://fbinfer.com
  gcc - GNU Compiler Collection Static Analyzer, https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/StaticAnalyzer
  golint - Golint, https://github.com/golang/lint
  kernel-doc - Kernel-Doc, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/scripts/kernel-doc
  lsan - LeakSanitizer, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LeakSanitizer.html
  mdl - Markdownlint, https://github.com/markdownlint/markdownlint
  msan - MemorySanitizer, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html
  pyflakes - Pyflakes, https://github.com/PyCQA/pyflakes
  pylint - Pylint, https://www.pylint.org
  roslynator - Roslynator.DotNet.Cli, https://github.com/JosefPihrt/Roslynator#roslynator-command-line-tool-
  smatch - Smatch, https://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git
  sparse - Sparse, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git
  sphinx - Sphinx, https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx
  spotbugs - spotbugs, https://spotbugs.github.io
  tsan - ThreadSanitizer, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSanitizer.html
  tslint - TSLint, https://palantir.github.io/tslint
  ubsan - UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, https://clang.llvm.org/docs/UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.html

Supported analyzer outputs

Sanitizers

Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer

  • Compile with -g and -fno-omit-frame-pointer to get proper debug information in your binary.
  • Run your program with environment variable UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1.
  • Set the UBSAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH environment variable to point to the llvm-symbolizer binary (or make sure llvm-symbolizer is in your $PATH).
  • Run the report-converter converter from the directory where your binary is because the output of the UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer will contain relative paths.
# Compile your program.
clang++ -fsanitize=undefined -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer ubsanitizer.cpp

# Run your program and redirect the output to a file.
UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1 \
UBSAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/bin/llvm-symbolizer \
./a.out > ubsan.output 2>&1

# Generate plist files from the output.
report-converter -t ubsan -o ./ubsan_results ubsan.output

Address Sanitizer

  • Compile with -g and -fno-omit-frame-pointer to get proper debug information in your binary.
  • Set the ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH environment variable to point to the llvm-symbolizer binary (or make sure llvm-symbolizer is in your $PATH).
# Compile your program.
clang++ -fsanitize=address -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer asan.cpp

# Run your program and redirect the output to a file.
ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/bin/llvm-symbolizer \
./a.out > asan.output 2>&1

# Generate plist files from the output.
report-converter -t asan -o ./asan_results asan.output

Memory Sanitizer

  • Compile with -g and -fno-omit-frame-pointer to get proper debug information in your binary.
  • Set the MSAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH environment variable to point to the llvm-symbolizer binary (or make sure llvm-symbolizer is in your $PATH).
# Compile your program.
clang++ -fsanitize=memory -g -fno-omit-frame-pointer msan.cpp

# Run your program and redirect the output to a file.
MSAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/bin/llvm-symbolizer \
./a.out > msan.output 2>&1

# Generate plist files from the output.
report-converter -t msan -o ./msan_results msan.output

Thread Sanitizer

  • Compile with -g to get proper debug information in your binary.
# Compile your program.
clang++ -fsanitize=thread -g tsan.cpp

# Run your program and redirect the output to a file.
./a.out > tsan.output 2>&1

# Generate plist files from the output.
report-converter -t tsan -o ./tsan_results tsan.output

Leak Sanitizer

  • Compile with -g and -fsanitize=address to get proper debug information in your binary.
# Compile your program.
clang -fsanitize=address -g lsan.c

# Run your program and redirect the output to a file.
ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=1 ./a.out > lsan.output 2>&1

# Generate plist files from the output.
report-converter -t lsan -o ./lsan_results lsan.output

Cppcheck

Cppcheck is a static analysis tool for C/C++ code.

The recommended way of running the Cppcheck tool is to use a JSON Compilation Database file.

The following example shows how to log the compilation commands with CodeChecker, run CppCheck and store the results found by CppCheck to the CodeChecker database.

# Collect the compilation commands with absolute path conversion.
# Absolute path conversion is required so the reports generated by Cppcheck can
# be stored.
CC_LOGGER_ABS_PATH=1 CodeChecker log -o compile_command.json -b "make"

# Create a directory for the reports.
mkdir cppcheck_reports

# Run Cppcheck by using the generated compile command database.
cppcheck --project=compile_command.json --plist-output=./cppcheck_reports

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Cppcheck. It will generate a unique report identifier
report-converter -t cppcheck -o ./codechecker_cppcheck_reports ./cppcheck_reports

# Store the Cppcheck reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_cppcheck_reports -n cppcheck

Notes: - The missing unique report identifiers will be generated by the report-converter tool. - Analysis related information can not be stored since it is not collected by CppCheck: analysis statistics, analysis duration, cppcheck command etc.

For more information about logging checkout the log section in the user guide.

GNU GCC Static Analyzer

This project introduces a static analysis pass for GCC that can diagnose various kinds of problems in C/C++ code at compile-time (e.g. double-free, use-after-free, etc).

The analyzer runs as an IPA pass on the gimple SSA representation. It associates state machines with data, with transitions at certain statements and edges. It finds "interesting" interprocedural paths through the user's code, in which bogus state transitions happen.

GCC 13.0.0 and later versions support the output in sarif formats, which report-converter can parse. Earlier versions only supported a json output, which report-converter doesn't support.

You can enable the GNU GCC Static Analyzer and the sarif output with the following flags:

# Complie and analyze my_file.cpp.
g++ -fanalyzer -fdiagnostics-format=sarif-file my_file.cpp

# GCC created a new file, my_file.cpp.sarif.
report-converter -t gcc -o my_file.cpp.sarif ./gcc_reports

# Store the gcc reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_cppcheck_reports -n gcc_reports

Spotbugs

Spotbugs is a static analysis tool for Java code.

The recommended way of running the Spotbugs tool is to generate an xml output file with messages (-xml:withMessages).

The following example shows you how to run SpotBugs and store the results found by SpotBugs to the CodeChecker database.

# Run SpotBugs.
# Use the '-xml:withMessages' option to generate xml output.
spotbugs -xml:withMessages -output ./bugs.xml -textui /path/to/your/project

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of SpotBugs.
report-converter -t spotbugs -o ./codechecker_spotbugs_reports ./bugs.xml

# Store the SpotBugs reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_spotbugs_reports -n spotbugs

Facebook Infer

Facebook Infer is a static analysis tool developed by Facebook which supports multiple programming languages such as C/C++, Java etc.

The recommended way of running the Facebook Infer tool is to generate an infer-out directory which will contain a report.json file.

The following example shows you how to run Facebook Infer and store the results found by Infer to the CodeChecker database.

# Run Infer.
infer capture -- clang++ main.cpp
infer analyze

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of FB Infer.
report-converter -t fbinfer -o ./codechecker_fbinfer_reports ./infer-out

# Store the Infer reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_fbinfer_reports -n fbinfer

ESLint

ESLint is a static analysis tool for JavaScript.

The recommended way of running the ESLint tool is to generate a json output file.

The following example shows you how to run ESLint and store the results found by ESLint to the CodeChecker database.

# Run ESLint.
eslint -o ./eslint_reports.json -f json /path/to/my/project

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of ESLint.
report-converter -t eslint -o ./codechecker_eslint_reports ./eslint_reports.json

# Store the ESLint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_eslint_reports -n eslint

Pylint

Pylint is a static analysis tool for Python.

The recommended way of running the Pylint tool is to generate a json output file.

The following example shows you how to run Pylint and store the results found by Pylint to the CodeChecker database.

# Run Pylint.
pylint -f json /path/to/my/project > ./pylint_reports.json

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Pylint.
report-converter -t pylint -o ./codechecker_pylint_reports ./pylint_reports.json

# Store the Pylint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_pylint_reports -n pylint

Pyflakes

Pyflakes is a static analysis tool for Python code.

The recommended way of running Pyflakes is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Pyflakes and store the results found by Pyflakes to the CodeChecker database.

# Run Pyflakes.
pyflakes /path/to/your/project > ./pyflakes_reports.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Pyflakes.
report-converter -t pyflakes -o ./codechecker_pyflakes_reports ./pyflakes_reports.out

# Store the Pyflakes reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_pyflakes_reports -n pyflakes

TSLint

TSLint is a static analysis tool for TypeScript.

The recommended way of running the TSLint tool is to generate a json output file.

The following example shows you how to run TSLint and store the results found by TSLint to the CodeChecker database.

# Run TSLint.
tslint --format json /path/to/my/ts/file -o ./tslint_reports.json

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of TSLint.
report-converter -t tslint -o ./codechecker_tslint_reports ./tslint_reports.json

# Store the TSLint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_tslint_reports -n tslint

Golint

Golint is a static analysis tool for Go code.

The recommended way of running Golint is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Golint and store the results found by Golint to the CodeChecker database.

# Run Golint.
golint /path/to/your/project > ./golint_reports.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Golint.
report-converter -t golint -o ./codechecker_golint_reports ./golint_reports.out

# Store the Golint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_golint_reports -n golint

Markdownlint

Markdownlint is a static analysis tool for markdown files.

The recommended way of running Markdownlint is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Markdownlint and store the results found by Markdownlint to the CodeChecker database.

# Run Markdownlint.
mdl /path/to/your/project > ./mdl_reports.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Markdownlint.
report-converter -t mdl -o ./codechecker_mdl_reports ./mdl_reports.out

# Store Markdownlint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_mdl_reports -n mdl

Coccinelle

Coccinelle allows programmers to easily write some complex style-preserving source-to-source transformations on C source code, like for instance to perform some refactorings.

The recommended way of running Coccinelle is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

Note: the checker name will be the file name of the .cocci file along with cocinelle prefix.

The following example shows you how to run Coccinelle on kernel sources and store the results found by Coccinelle to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/linux/kernel/repository

# Run Coccicheck 
make coccicheck MODE=report V=1 > ./coccinelle_reports.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Coccicheck
report-converter -t coccinelle -o ./codechecker_coccinelle_reports ./coccinelle_reports.out

# Store the Cocccinelle reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_coccinelle_reports -n coccinelle

Smatch

Smatch is a static analysis tool for C that is used on the kernel.

The recommended way of running Smatch is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Smatch on kernel sources and store the results found by Smatch to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/linux/kernel/repository

# Run Smatch 
# Note: The warnings will be stored by default into smatch_warns.txt after executing the following command
path/to/smatch/smatch_scripts/test_kernel.sh

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Smatch
report-converter -t smatch -o ./codechecker_smatch_reports ./smatch_warns.txt

# Store the Smatch reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_smatch_reports -n smatch

Kernel-Doc

Kernel-Doc structure is extracted from the comments, and proper Sphinx C Domain function and type descriptions with anchors are generated from them. The descriptions are filtered for special kernel-doc highlights and cross-references.

The recommended way of running Kernel-Doc is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Kernel-Doc on kernel sources and store the results found by Kernel-Doc to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/linux/kernel/repository

# Run Kernel-Doc
# Note: The output of the following command will be both of sphinx and kernel-doc, 
# but the parser will parse only kernel-doc output
make htmldocs 2>&1 | tee kernel-docs.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Kernel-Doc
report-converter -t kernel-doc -o ./codechecker_kernel_doc_reports ./kernel-docs.out

# Store the Kernel-Doc reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_kernel_doc_reports -n kernel-doc

Sphinx

Sphinx Sphinx is a documentation generator or a tool that translates a set of plain text source files into various output formats, automatically producing cross-references, indices, etc.

The recommended way of running Sphinx is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Sphinx on kernel sources and store the results found by Sphinx to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/linux/kernel/repository

# Run Sphinx
# Note: The output of the following command will be both of sphinx and kernel-doc, 
# but the parser will parse only sphinx output
make htmldocs 2>&1 | tee sphinx.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Sphinx
report-converter -t sphinx -o ./codechecker_sphinx_reports ./sphinx.out

# Store the Sphinx reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_sphinx_reports -n sphinx

Sparse

Sparse is a semantic checker for C programs; it can be used to find a number of potential problems with kernel code.

The recommended way of running Sparse is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Sparse on kernel sources and store the results found by Sparse to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/linux/kernel/repository

# Run Sparse
make C=1 2>&1 | tee sparse.out

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Sparse
report-converter -t sparse -o ./codechecker_sparse_reports ./sparse.out

# Store the Sparse reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_sparse_reports -n sparse

cpplint

cpplint is a lint-like tool which checks C++ code against Google C++ Style Guide.

The recommended way of running cpplint is to redirect the output to a file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run cpplint and store the results found by cpplint to the CodeChecker database.

# Change Directory to your project
cd path/to/your/project

# Run cpplint
cpplint sample.cpp > ./sample.out 2>&1

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of cpplint
report-converter -t cpplint -o ./codechecker_cpplint_reports ./sample.out

# Store the cpplint reports with CodeChecker.
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_cpplint_reports -n cpplint

Roslynator.DotNet.Cli

The Roslynator project contains several analyzers built on top of Microsoft Roslyn.

It also provides a .NET tool for running Roslyn code analysis from the command line. It is not limited to Microsoft and Roslynator analyzers, it supports any Roslyn anaylzer. It can also report MSBuild compiler diagnostics.

The recommended way of running the Roslynator CLI tool is to save the output to an XML file and give this file to the report converter tool.

The following example shows you how to run Roslynator CLI and store the results found by Roslynator to the CodeChecker database.

# Change directory to your project
cd path/to/your/project_or_solution

# Run Roslynator
# Provide an .sln file instead of .csproj if you want to analyze a solution
roslynator analyze sample.csproj --output sample.xml

# Use 'report-converter' to create a CodeChecker report directory from the
# analyzer result of Roslynator
report-converter -t roslynator -o ./codechecker_roslynator_reports ./sample.xml

# Store the Roslynator report with CodeChecker
CodeChecker store ./codechecker_roslynator_reports -n roslynator

Plist/Sarif to html tool

plist-to-html is a python tool which parses and creates HTML files from one or more .plist result files.

Usage

$ plist-to-html --help (click to expand) 
usage: plist-to-html [-h] -o OUTPUT_DIR [-l LAYOUT_DIR]
                     file/folder [file/folder ...]

Parse and create HTML files from one or more '.plist' result files.

positional arguments:
  file/folder           The plist files and/or folders containing analysis
                        results which should be parsed.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -o OUTPUT_DIR, --output OUTPUT_DIR
                        Generate HTML output files in the given folder.
                        (default: None)
  -l LAYOUT_DIR, --layout LAYOUT_DIR
                        Directory which contains dependency HTML, CSS and
                        JavaScript files. (default: plist_to_html/../static)

Report hash generation module

A report hash identifies a specific bug in the analyzed code. For example if a function contains some bug and this function is called from several parts of the program then essentially these are the same bug. These bugs get the same report hash which indicates a connection between them. CodeChecker web interface also helps to group these findings. However, in some special cases the hash should be built from specific information which makes bug identification sensitive on some different things (for example indentation of the code). We recommend using CONTEXT_FREE which works in most cases.

Multiple hash types are available: - PATH_SENSITIVE - CONTEXT_FREE - DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE

You can use this library to generate report hash for these types by using the get_report_hash function.

Generate path sensitive report hash

get_report_hash function can be used to generate report hash with bug path if the hash type parameter is PATH_SENSITIVE.

High level overview of the hash content: * file_name from the main diag section. * checker name. * checker message. * line content from the source file if can be read up. * column numbers from the main diag section. * range column numbers only from the control diag sections if column number in the range is not the same as the previous control diag section number in the bug path. If there are no control sections event section column numbers are used.

Note: as the main diagnostic section the last element from the bug path is used.

Generate context free report hash

get_report_hash function can be used to generate report hash without bug path if the hash type parameter is CONTEXT_FREE.

High level overview of the hash content: * file_name from the main diag section. * checker message. * line content from the source file if can be read up. All the whitespaces from the source content are removed. * column numbers from the main diag sections location.

Generate diagnostic message hash

get_report_hash function can be used to generate report hash with bug event messages if the hash type parameter is DIAGNOSTIC_MESSAGE.

High level overview of the hash content: * Same as CONTEXT_FREE (file name, checker message etc.) * bug step messages from all events.

Note: this is an experimental hash and it is not recommended to use it on your project because this hash can change very easily for example on variable / function renames.

Generate path hash

get_report_path_hash can be used to get path hash for the given bug path which can be used to filter deduplications of multiple reports.

License

The project is licensed under Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. See LICENSE.TXT for details.