Add valgrind target to check for memory leaks

tiran · tiran · commit edbb37840702 · 2017-12-05T10:19:44.000+01:00
Signed-off-by: Christian Heimes &lt;cheimes@redhat.com&gt;
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Infrastructure:
 * Remove distclean.sh in favor of make clean
 * Use `package`, `depends`, `install_requires` in setup.py
 * Add make target for scan-build (static analysis using clang)
+* Add make target and suppression file for Valgrind (memory checker)
 
 Modules/
 * Remove unused LDAPberval helper functions
diff --git a/Doc/contributing.rst b/Doc/contributing.rst
@@ -168,13 +168,15 @@ We use several specialized tools for debugging and maintenance.
 Make targets
 ------------
 
-``make lcov-open``
+``make lcov lcov-open``
     Generate and view test coverage for C code.
     Requires ``make`` and ``lcov``.
 
 ``make scan-build``
     Run static analysis. Requires ``clang``.
 
+``make valgrind``
+    Run Valgrind to check for memory leaks. Requires ``valgrind``
 
 Reference leak tests
 --------------------
diff --git a/Doc/spelling_wordlist.txt b/Doc/spelling_wordlist.txt
@@ -150,5 +150,6 @@ userApplications
 userPassword
 usr
 uuids
+Valgrind
 whitespace
 workflow
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ LCOV_REPORT=build/lcov_report
 LCOV_REPORT_OPTIONS=--show-details -no-branch-coverage \
 	--title "python-ldap LCOV report"
 SCAN_REPORT=build/scan_report
+PYTHON_SUPP=/usr/share/doc/python3-devel/valgrind-python.supp
 
 .NOTPARALLEL:
 
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@ clean:
 	    -delete
 	find . -depth -name __pycache__ -exec rm -rf {} \;
 
+build:
+	mkdir -p build
+
 # LCOV report (measuring test coverage for C code)
 .PHONY: lcov-clean lcov-coverage lcov-report lcov-open lcov
 lcov-clean:
@@ -27,7 +31,7 @@ lcov-clean:
 lcov-coverage:
 	WITH_GCOV=1 tox -e py27,py36
 
-$(LCOV_INFO):
+$(LCOV_INFO): build
 	lcov --capture --directory build --output-file $(LCOV_INFO)
 
 $(LCOV_REPORT): $(LCOV_INFO)
@@ -49,3 +53,13 @@ scan-build:
 	scan-build -o $(SCAN_REPORT) --html-title="python-ldap scan report" \
 		-analyze-headers --view \
 		$(PYTHON) setup.py clean --all build
+
+# valgrind memory checker
+.PHONY: valgrind
+valgrind: build
+	valgrind --leak-check=full \
+	    --suppressions=$(PYTHON_SUPP) \
+	    --suppressions=Misc/python-ldap.supp \
+	    --gen-suppressions=all \
+	    --log-file=build/valgrind.log \
+	    $(PYTHON) setup.py test
diff --git a/Misc/python-ldap.supp b/Misc/python-ldap.supp
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Valgrind suppression file for Python 3.6.
+
+{
+   Ignore libldap memory leak, https://github.com/python-ldap/python-ldap/issues/82
+   Memcheck:Leak
+   match-leak-kinds: definite
+   fun:malloc
+   fun:ber_memalloc_x
+   fun:ber_flatten
+   fun:ldap_cancel
+   fun:l_ldap_cancel
+   ...
+}
+
+{
+   Known leak in SASL interaction, https://github.com/python-ldap/python-ldap/issues/81
+   Memcheck:Leak
+   match-leak-kinds: definite
+   fun:malloc
+   fun:strdup
+   fun:interaction
+   fun:py_ldap_sasl_interaction
+   fun:ldap_int_sasl_bind
+   fun:ldap_sasl_interactive_bind
+   fun:ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s
+   fun:l_ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s
+   ...
+}
+
+{
+   Ignore possible leaks in exception initialization
+   Memcheck:Leak
+   match-leak-kinds: possible
+   fun:malloc
+   fun:PyObject_Malloc
+   ...
+   fun:PyErr_NewException
+   fun:LDAPinit_constants
+   fun:init_ldap_module
+   ...
+}
