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fips/testing/check-log-strings.py
Johnathan Corgan d21f818659 Check that log strings tests match on are still ones the daemon emits
A test that greps the daemon's log for a message the daemon stopped emitting
does not fail. It stops observing, and an assertion built on it — especially
one expecting a count of zero — then passes because nothing can be seen
rather than because nothing happened. Several findings have come from that
one class, so it is now checked mechanically.

testing/check-log-strings.py extracts the strings test code matches against
daemon log text and requires each to exist in src/. It reads four shapes:
python `"..." in line` tests, the first argument of the shell log helpers,
bash associative-array pattern tables, and greps whose input is daemon log
output. Patterns carry regex syntax, so each is reduced to the longest
literal run of every alternation branch, with escaping resolved in the same
pass — `\.` is a literal dot and `.` is a wildcard, and conflating them would
let a pattern match text that is not there.

Scoping is by what a grep READS, not by what its file mentions. A suite greps
its own analyzer output, fipsctl JSON, Tor's log and ping output, and none of
those have to correspond to a string in src/; scoping on the file produced 34
false positives. Strings that legitimately do not come from src/ are named in
ALLOWED with a reason, so the exceptions are reviewable rather than invisible.

It found six dead strings, three of which were not previously known: a second
copy of "Excessive decrypt failures" in the interop pattern table, a dead
"Handshake error" branch inside an alternation whose other branches still
matched, and "bootstrap failed" in the NAT suite. All six are corrected to
what the daemon emits, or dropped where the surviving branch already covers
the case. Verified by breaking it two ways and confirming it reports.

Also here, since it is the same failure shape one layer down: the shared log
library returned an empty string for a container whose logs it could not
read, so analysing a missing container reported no panics, no errors and no
sessions, and exited 0 — indistinguishable from a clean run. It now reports
which containers could not be read and raises, matching the fix already
landed in the chaos copy.
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Verify that every daemon log string a test matches on still exists in src/.
A test that greps the daemon's log for a message the daemon no longer emits
does not fail — it quietly stops observing anything, and an assertion built on
it (especially one expecting a count of zero) passes for the wrong reason.
That class has produced several findings, so it is checked mechanically here
rather than re-discovered by reading.
The check extracts the string literals that test code matches against daemon
log lines, reduces each to its longest literal run (patterns carry regex
syntax), and requires that run to appear somewhere under src/. Anything that
legitimately does not originate in src/ — runtime panic text, tracing's own
level tokens — must be named in ALLOWED with a reason, so the exceptions are
reviewable instead of invisible.
Usage: testing/check-log-strings.py [--verbose]
Exit: 0 all matched strings are live, 1 otherwise.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
REPO = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
SRC = REPO / "src"
TESTING = REPO / "testing"
# Strings matched against log text that do not come from src/, each with the
# reason it is legitimately absent. Anything here is exempt from the src/
# existence requirement — keep the list short and the reasons specific.
ALLOWED = {
"panicked": "emitted by the Rust runtime's panic hook, not by our code",
"PANIC": "panic-adjacent marker matched defensively alongside 'panicked'",
"ERROR": "tracing's own level token, produced by the subscriber's formatter",
" ERROR ": "tracing's own level token, produced by the subscriber's formatter",
" WARN ": "tracing's own level token, produced by the subscriber's formatter",
"Bootstrapped 100%": (
"read from the tor-daemon container's log, not the fips daemon's — "
"Tor's own bootstrap progress line"
),
"panicked at": "the Rust runtime's panic hook writes this, not our code",
"RUST_BACKTRACE": "the runtime's backtrace hint, printed alongside a panic",
"fatal runtime error": "emitted by the Rust runtime on an abort",
}
# Shell helpers whose first argument is a pattern matched against daemon logs.
SHELL_HELPERS = ("count_log_pattern", "assert_zero_count")
# A literal run shorter than this is too weak to search for meaningfully.
MIN_ANCHOR = 8
META = set("[](){}?*+.^$")
def literal_anchors(pattern: str) -> list[str]:
"""Longest literal run of each alternation branch of a grep pattern.
Walks the pattern rather than substituting, because escaping has to be
resolved in the same pass as the split: `\\.` is a literal dot and ends
nothing, while a bare `.` is a wildcard and ends the run. Unescaping first
and splitting after would conflate the two and treat `directory.mode` as
though it were literal text.
"""
branches, current, i = [], [], 0
while i < len(pattern):
ch = pattern[i]
if ch == "\\" and i + 1 < len(pattern):
nxt = pattern[i + 1]
if nxt == "|": # BRE alternation
branches.append("".join(current))
current = []
elif nxt in "wsdbWSDB": # a character class, not a literal
current.append("\0")
else:
current.append(nxt)
i += 2
continue
if ch == "|": # ERE alternation
branches.append("".join(current))
current = []
elif ch in META:
current.append("\0")
else:
current.append(ch)
i += 1
branches.append("".join(current))
anchors = []
for branch in branches:
runs = [r.strip() for r in branch.split("\0")]
runs = [r for r in runs if r]
if runs:
anchors.append(max(runs, key=len))
return anchors
def python_candidates() -> list[tuple[Path, int, str]]:
"""`"literal" in line` tests in testing/ python."""
found = []
for path in sorted(TESTING.rglob("*.py")):
for n, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
for m in re.finditer(r'"([^"]+)"\s+in\s+line\b', line):
found.append((path, n, m.group(1)))
return found
def shell_candidates() -> list[tuple[Path, int, str]]:
"""Literal first argument to a log-matching shell helper."""
helpers = "|".join(SHELL_HELPERS)
# Quoted literal only; a variable argument is resolved elsewhere and is
# reported as unscannable rather than silently skipped.
literal = re.compile(rf"\b(?:{helpers})\s+(\"[^\"$]+\"|'[^']+')")
variable = re.compile(rf"\b(?:{helpers})\s+[\"']?\$")
found = []
for path in sorted(TESTING.rglob("*.sh")):
for n, line in enumerate(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
if line.lstrip().startswith("#"):
continue
for m in literal.finditer(line):
found.append((path, n, m.group(1)[1:-1]))
if variable.search(line):
found.append((path, n, None))
return found
def pattern_table_candidates() -> list[tuple[Path, int, str]]:
"""Bash associative-array keys used as log patterns.
A suite that iterates a table of patterns into a log-matching helper hides
every string behind a variable, so the helper rule above sees only
`count_log_pattern "$pat"` and reports it unscannable. The keys are the
patterns; read them where they are written.
"""
key = re.compile(r'^\s*\[\s*"([^"$]+)"\s*\]=')
found = []
for path in sorted(TESTING.rglob("*.sh")):
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
if not any(h in text for h in SHELL_HELPERS):
continue
for n, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
if line.lstrip().startswith("#"):
continue
m = key.match(line)
if m:
found.append((path, n, m.group(1)))
return found
def grep_candidates() -> list[tuple[Path, int, str]]:
"""Literal grep patterns whose input is daemon log text.
Scoped by what the grep READS, not by what the file mentions. A suite
greps several unrelated sources — its own analyzer output, fipsctl JSON,
Tor's log, ping output — and only the daemon's log has to correspond to a
string in src/. Two shapes qualify: a grep piped directly from
`docker logs`, and a grep fed a variable that was assigned from it.
"""
grep_lit = r"\bgrep\b[^|;]*?\s(\"[^\"$]+\"|'[^'$]+')"
assign = re.compile(r"(\w+)=\"?\$\(\s*docker logs\b")
found = []
for path in sorted(TESTING.rglob("*.sh")):
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
if "docker logs" not in text:
continue
log_vars = set(assign.findall(text))
# A grep reading one of those variables, by herestring or by pipe.
var_alt = "|".join(re.escape(v) for v in log_vars) or r"\0"
reads_var = re.compile(rf"[\"']?\$\{{?(?:{var_alt})\b")
for n, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
if line.lstrip().startswith("#"):
continue
if "docker logs" not in line and not reads_var.search(line):
continue
for m in re.finditer(grep_lit, line):
found.append((path, n, m.group(1)[1:-1]))
return found
def main() -> int:
verbose = "--verbose" in sys.argv
src_text = "\n".join(
p.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
for p in SRC.rglob("*.rs")
)
candidates = (
python_candidates()
+ shell_candidates()
+ pattern_table_candidates()
+ grep_candidates()
)
dead, checked, exempt, unscannable = [], 0, 0, 0
for path, lineno, raw in candidates:
rel = path.relative_to(REPO)
if raw is None:
unscannable += 1
if verbose:
print(f" skip {rel}:{lineno}: pattern comes from a variable")
continue
if raw in ALLOWED:
exempt += 1
if verbose:
print(f" allow {rel}:{lineno}: {raw!r} ({ALLOWED[raw]})")
continue
anchors = literal_anchors(raw)
# An alternation may mix daemon strings with runtime ones, so the
# allowlist applies per branch and not only to the whole pattern.
if any(a in ALLOWED for a in anchors):
exempt += 1
if verbose:
print(f" allow {rel}:{lineno}: {raw!r} (branch in ALLOWED)")
anchors = [a for a in anchors if a not in ALLOWED]
usable = [a for a in anchors if len(a) >= MIN_ANCHOR]
if not usable:
unscannable += 1
if verbose:
print(f" skip {rel}:{lineno}: {raw!r} has no literal run >= {MIN_ANCHOR}")
continue
checked += 1
# Every alternation branch must be live: one dead branch is a matcher
# that has silently narrowed.
for anchor in usable:
if anchor not in src_text:
dead.append((rel, lineno, raw, anchor))
elif verbose:
print(f" ok {rel}:{lineno}: {anchor!r}")
print(
f"log-string check: {checked} matched, {exempt} allowed, "
f"{unscannable} unscannable, {len(dead)} dead"
)
if dead:
print("\nStrings matched against daemon logs that src/ never emits:\n")
for rel, lineno, raw, anchor in dead:
print(f" {rel}:{lineno}")
print(f" pattern: {raw!r}")
print(f" missing: {anchor!r}")
print(
"\nEither correct the string to what the daemon emits, or add it to "
"ALLOWED\nin this script with the reason it does not come from src/."
)
return 1
return 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())