Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases.

Aliases are just another name for a position in a file. As such, the
regular symbol resolutions are not applied. For example, given

define void @my_func() {
  ret void
}
@my_alias = alias weak void ()* @my_func
@my_alias2 = alias void ()* @my_alias

We produce without this patch:

        .weak   my_alias
my_alias = my_func
        .globl  my_alias2
my_alias2 = my_alias

That is, in the resulting ELF file my_alias, my_func and my_alias are
just 3 names pointing to offset 0 of .text. That is *not* the
semantics of IR linking. For example, linking in a

@my_alias = alias void ()* @other_func

would require the strong my_alias to override the weak one and
my_alias2 would end up pointing to other_func.

There is no way to represent that with aliases being just another
name, so the best solution seems to be to just disallow it, converting
a miscompile into an error.

llvm-svn: 204781

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
index 0249df1c6d8..df1549d405c 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/DataFlowSanitizer.cpp
@@ -554,8 +554,7 @@ bool DataFlowSanitizer::runOnModule(Module &M) {
     ++i;
     // Don't stop on weak.  We assume people aren't playing games with the
     // instrumentedness of overridden weak aliases.
-    if (Function *F = dyn_cast<Function>(
-            GA->resolveAliasedGlobal(/*stopOnWeak=*/false))) {
+    if (Function *F = dyn_cast<Function>(GA->getAliasedGlobal())) {
       bool GAInst = isInstrumented(GA), FInst = isInstrumented(F);
       if (GAInst && FInst) {
         addGlobalNamePrefix(GA);