siggen 1.0.20220909

Experimental extraction of Socorro signature generation

This is an extraction of the Socorro crash signature generation code.

Code:

https://github.com/willkg/socorro-siggen

Documentation:

Check the README.rst file

Changelog:

Check the HISTORY.rst file

Issue tracker:

https://github.com/willkg/socorro-siggen/issues

License:

MPLv2

Status:

Stable

Community Participation Guidelines:

https://github.com/willkg/socorro-siggen/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

Installing

socorro-siggen is available on PyPI. You can install for library usage with:

$ pip install siggen

You can install for cli usage with:

$ pip install 'siggen[cli]'

Install for hacking:

$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Versioning

siggen is an extraction of the signature generation code in Socorro. If you are running signature generation on crash data and you want signatures to match equivalent crash reports in Socorro, then you need to keep siggen up-to-date.

siggen uses a calver scheme:

MAJOR.MINOR.yyyymmdd

• MAJOR: indicates incompatible API changes

• MINOR: indicates changes that are backwards-compatible

• yyyymmdd: the release date

Basic use

Use it on the command line for signature generation debugging

siggen comes with several command line tools for signature generation.

signify

Takes a signature generation crash data file via stdin, runs signature generation, and prints the output.

This is helpful for generating signatures for crash data.

Usage:

signify --help

Example:

$ fetch-data 04e52a99-67d4-4d19-ad21-e29d10220905 > crash_data.json
$ cat crash_data.json | signify

If you pass in the --verbose flag, you’ll get verbose output about how the signature was generated.

fetch-data

Downloads processed crash data from Crash Stats and converts it to the signature generation crash data.

Usage:

fetch-data --help

Example:

$ fetch-data 04e52a99-67d4-4d19-ad21-e29d10220905 > crash_data.json

signature

Downloads processed crash data from Crash Stats, converts it to signature generation crash data format, and generates a signature.

This also tells you whether the new signature matches the old one.

This is helpful for making adjustments to the signature lists and debugging signature generation problems.

Usage:

$ signature --help

Example:

$ signature 04e52a99-67d4-4d19-ad21-e29d10220905 > crash_data.json

Use it as a library

You can use socorro-siggen as a library:

from siggen.generator import SignatureGenerator

generator = SignatureGenerator()

crash_data = {
    ...
}

ret = generator.generate(crash_data)
print(ret['signature'])

Things to know

Things to know about siggen:

1. Make sure to use the latest version of siggen and update frequently. We use semantic versioning, so the API will not change for MINOR and PATCH releases. Feel free to restrict on the MAJOR version.

2. Signatures generated will change between siggen versions. The API may be stable, but bug fixes and changes to the siglist files will affect signature generation output. Hopefully for the better!

3. If you have problems, please open up an issue. Please include the version of siggen.

   When using siggen, you can find the version like this:

   import siggen
   print(siggen.__version__)

Signature generation crash data schema

This is the schema for the signature generation crash data structure:

{
  crashing_thread: <int or null>,    // Optional, The index of the crashing thread in threads.
                                     // This defaults to None which indicates there was no
                                     // crashing thread identified in the crash report.

  threads: [                         // Optional, list of stack traces for c/c++/rust code.
    {
      frames: [                      // List of one or more frames.
        {
          function: <string>,        // Optional, The name of the function.
                                     // If this is ``None`` or not in the frame, then signature
                                     // generation will calculate something using other data in
                                     // the frame.

          module: <string>,          // Optional, name of the module
          file: <string>,            // Optional, name of the file
          line: <int>,               // Optional, line in the file
          module_offset: <string>,   // Optional, offset in hex in the module for this frame
          offset: <string>           // Optional, offset in hex for this frame

                                     // Signature parts are computed using frame data in this
                                     // order:

                                     // 1. if there's a function (and optionally line)--use
                                     //    that
                                     // 2. if there's a file and a line--use that
                                     // 3. if there's an offset and no module/module_offset--use
                                     //    that
                                     // 4. use module/module_offset
        }
        // ... additional frames
      ],

      thread_name: <string>,         // Optional, The name of the thread.
                                     // This isn't used, yet, but might be in the future for
                                     // debugging purposes.

      frame_count: <int>             // Optional, This is the total number of frames. This
                                     // isn't used.
    },
    // ... additional threads
  ],

  java_stack_trace: <string>,        // Optional, If the crash is a Java crash, then this will
                                     // be the Java traceback as a single string. Signature
                                     // generation will split this string into lines and then
                                     // extract frame information from it to generate the
                                     // signature.

                                     // FIXME(willkg): Write up better description of this.

  oom_allocation_size: <int>,        // Optional, The allocation size that triggered an
                                     // out-of-memory error. This will get added to the
                                     // signature if one of the indicator functions appears in
                                     // the stack of the crashing thread.

  abort_message: <string>,           // Optional, The abort message for the crash, if there is
                                     // one. This is added to the beginning of the signature.

  hang_type: <int>,                  // Optional.
                                     // 1 here indicates this is a chrome hang and we look at
                                     // thread 0 for generation.
                                     // -1 indicates another kind of hang.

  async_shutdown_timeout: <text>,    // Optional, This is a text field encoded in JSON with
                                     // "phase" and "conditions" keys.
                                     // FIXME(willkg): Document this structure better.

  jit_category: <string>,            // Optional, If there's a JIT classification in the
                                     // crash, then that will override the signature

  ipc_channel_error: <string>,       // Optional, If there is an IPC channel error, it
                                     // replaces the signature.

  ipc_message_name: <string>,        // Optional, This gets added to the signature if there
                                     // was an IPC message name in the crash.

  additional_minidumps: <string>,    // Optional, A crash report can contain multiple minidumps.
                                     // This is a comma-delimited list of minidumps other than
                                     // the main one that the crash had.

                                     // Example: "browser,flash1,flash2,content"

  mdsw_status_string: <string>,      // Optional, Socorro-generated
                                     // This is the minidump-stackwalk status string. This
                                     // gets generated when the Socorro processor runs the
                                     // minidump through minidump-stackwalk. If you're not
                                     // using minidump-stackwalk, you can ignore this.

  reason: <string>,                  // Optional, The crash_info type value. This can indicate
                                     // the crash was a OOM.

  moz_crash_reason: <string>,        // Optional, This is the MOZ_CRASH_REASON value. This
                                     // doesn't affect anything unless the value is
                                     // "MOZ_RELEASE_ASSERT(parentBuildID == childBuildID)".

  os: <string>,                      // Optional, The name of the operating system. This
                                     // doesn't affect anything unless the name is "Windows
                                     // NT" in which case it will lowercase module names when
                                     // iterating through frames to build the signature.
}

Missing keys in the structure are treated as None, so you can pass in a minimal structure with just the parts you define.

Examples

Example almost minimal, somewhat nonsense crash_data.json:

{
    "os": "Linux",
    "crashing_thread": 0,
    "threads": [
        {
            "frames": [
                {
                    "frame": 0,
                    "function": "SomeFunc",
                    "line": 20,
                    "file": "somefile.cpp",
                    "module": "foo.so.5.15.0",
                    "module_offset": "0x37a92",
                    "offset": "0x7fc641052a92"
                },
                {
                    "frame": 1,
                    "function": "SomeOtherFunc",
                    "line": 444,
                    "file": "someotherfile.cpp",
                    "module": "bar.so",
                    "module_offset": "0x39a55",
                    "offset": "0x7fc641044a55"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

That produces this output:

$ cat crash_data.json | signify
{
  "notes": [],
  "proto_signature": "SomeFunc | SomeOtherFunc",
  "signature": "SomeFunc"
}