[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 2/2] glsl: validate sampler array indexing for 'constant-index-expression'

Ian Romanick idr at freedesktop.org
Tue May 26 14:52:53 PDT 2015


On 05/26/2015 02:04 PM, Francisco Jerez wrote:
> Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> writes:
> 
>> On 05/26/2015 02:53 AM, Tapani Pälli wrote:
>>> Hello;
>>>
>>> I'd like to ping if this approach would be ok. We've had some
>>> discussions with Curro about it and overall it would seem nicer to move
>>> this check to happen at compile time. However, this seems quite a
>>> problematic move. I'll try explain below why;
>>>
>>> The overall problem with the failing use cases in the bug is that loop
>>> unroll does not happen. It does not happen because loop analysis does
>>> not know how to deal with functions and there is a texture2D call inside
>>> the loop.
>>>
>>> Now what follows is that because unroll does not happen the array index
>>> (loop induction variable) does not become constant during compilation,
>>> this will happen only after linking (where unroll finally happens due to
>>> function inlining which allows further optimization).
>>>
>>> I have a hacky patch where I force unroll to happen early when only
>>> builtin calls are found inside loop and it works *but* unfortunately it
>>> does not help since in the unrolled result we still have sampler array
>>> indexing with a non-constant variable 'i', it will be constant only
>>> later after linking phase when function inlining and further
>>> optimizations happen. It looks like this (I modified ir print output a
>>> bit to fit in email):
>>>
>>> 1st round:
>>> assign var_ref i constant_int 0
>>> call texture2D (constant int 0)
>>>
>>> 2nd round:
>>> assign var_ref i (var_ref i + constant_int 1)
>>> call texture2D (var_ref i)
>>>
>>> So at this point I got a bit tired of this approach. IMO linker check is
>>> sufficient and according the spec. Spec does not explicitly specify a
>>> compiler or linker error for this case but it does say:
>>
>> I agree.  We could handle GLSL ES at compile time because there is only
>> one compilation unit per stage, but I'm not convinced handling it
>> special is worth any effort.
> 
> I agree with both of you that it's not too important whether this
> validation happens at compile time or link time, what I find worrying is
> that we currently have no guarantee that sampler indexing expression of
> the form given by the spec (a "constant-index-expression") will actually
> be lowered into a constant by link time, so the check introduced in this
> patch may give a false positive in cases where the array index has the
> allowed form, like:
> 
> | sampler2D tex[N];
> |
> | for (i = 0; i < M; i++) {
> |     vec4 x = texture(tex[some_complex_constant_expression_of(i)], ...);
> |     // Very many instructions here, so the loop unrolling pass won't
> |     // have the temptation of unrolling the loop even after linking.
> | }
> 
> Admittedly without this check the situation was even worse because the
> indexing expression would most likely not have been in the form expected
> by the back-end, so it could have crashed or misrendered at a later
> point, even though this is a required feature of GLSL ES <3.00.
> 
> IMHO the loop unrolling pass needs to be fixed to consider sampler
> indexing with a constant-index-expression (or some easier superset of
> that, like arbitrary non-constant expressions) as a kind of unsupported
> array indexing like it already does for other cases, otherwise the
> valid programs may fail to compile or not depending on the outcome of
> the loop unrolling heuristic.

I think "need" is perhaps too strong.  The point that you've hit on here
is, in fact, the reason for the change between GLSL ES 1.00 and GLSL ES
3.00. :)

We haven't yet encountered a valid application that has a shader that
won't compile.  At this point I don't think it's likely that we ever will.

- Hardware increasingly "just works," so the restriction is unnecessary.

- The "hard" restriction in GLSL ES 3.00.

- Developer "tribal knowledge" that this is dangerous.

The use of NIR is gradually moving up in the linker pipeline.  Even if
this were moderately important, I don't think it's worth investing
effort in the existing loop infrastructure.  That said, we should keep
this firmly in mind as the NIR loop-handling infrastructure matures.  At
that point we can probably also revert this change.

>> The linker check even here can be somewhat problematic.  Back-ends do
>> additional optimization, so they may be able to make some of these
>> accesses be non-dynamic.  Marek in particular has complained about this
>> before.  Perhaps add a flag to make the error a warning (see also my
>> comment below)?
>>
>>> GLSL ES 1.0.17 spec (4.1.9 Arrays):
>>>
>>> "Reading from or writing to an array with a non-constant index that is
>>> less than zero or greater than or equal to the array's size results in
>>> undefined behavior. It is platform dependent how bounded this undefined
>>> behavior may be. It is possible that it leads to instability of the
>>> underlying system or corruption of memory. However, a particular
>>> platform may bound the behavior such that this is not the case."
>>>
>>> So according to spec, we should not really be checking anything but here
>>> I'm offering undefined behavior as extra linker check allowed by the
>>> last clause.
>>
>> We have platforms that can fully do dynamic indexing of sampler arrays.
>>  I think the "undefined behavior" on those platforms should be "it just
>> works," perhaps with a portability warning.
>>
>> One other comment far below.
>>
>>> Any opinions appreciated;
>>>
>>> // Tapani
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/19/2015 03:01 PM, Tapani Pälli wrote:
>>>> Desktop GLSL < 130 and GLSL ES < 300 allow sampler array indexing where
>>>> index can contain a loop induction variable. This extra check makes sure
>>>> that all these indexes turn in to constant expressions during
>>>> compilation/linking.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com>
>>>> Cc: "10.5" and "10.6" <mesa-stable at lists.freedesktop.org>
>>>> ---
>>>>   src/glsl/linker.cpp | 71
>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>   1 file changed, 71 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/glsl/linker.cpp b/src/glsl/linker.cpp
>>>> index ecdc025..729b27f 100644
>>>> --- a/src/glsl/linker.cpp
>>>> +++ b/src/glsl/linker.cpp
>>>> @@ -346,6 +346,39 @@ private:
>>>>      bool uses_non_zero_stream;
>>>>   };
>>>>
>>>> +/* Class that finds array derefs and check if indexes are dynamic. */
>>>> +class dynamic_sampler_array_indexing_visitor : public
>>>> ir_hierarchical_visitor
>>>> +{
>>>> +public:
>>>> +   dynamic_sampler_array_indexing_visitor() :
>>>> +      dynamic_sampler_array_indexing(false)
>>>> +   {
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>> +   ir_visitor_status visit_enter(ir_dereference_array *ir)
>>>> +   {
>>>> +      if (!ir->variable_referenced())
>>>> +         return visit_continue;
>>>> +
>>>> +      if (!ir->variable_referenced()->type->contains_sampler())
>>>> +         return visit_continue;
>>>> +
>>>> +      if (!ir->array_index->constant_expression_value()) {
>>>> +         dynamic_sampler_array_indexing = true;
>>>> +         return visit_stop;
>>>> +      }
>>>> +      return visit_continue;
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>> +   bool uses_dynamic_sampler_array_indexing()
>>>> +   {
>>>> +      return dynamic_sampler_array_indexing;
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>> +private:
>>>> +   bool dynamic_sampler_array_indexing;
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>>   } /* anonymous namespace */
>>>>
>>>>   void
>>>> @@ -2736,6 +2769,34 @@ build_program_resource_list(struct gl_context
>>>> *ctx,
>>>>       */
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>> +/**
>>>> + * This check is done to make sure we allow only constant expression
>>>> + * indexing and "constant-index-expression" (indexing with an expression
>>>> + * that includes loop induction variable).
>>>> + */
>>>> +bool
>>>> +validate_sampler_array_indexing(struct gl_shader_program *prog)
>>>> +{
>>>> +   dynamic_sampler_array_indexing_visitor v;
>>>> +   for (unsigned i = 0; i < MESA_SHADER_STAGES; i++) {
>>>> +      if (prog->_LinkedShaders[i] == NULL)
>>>> +     continue;
>>>> +
>>>> +      /* Search for array derefs in shader. */
>>>> +      v.run(prog->_LinkedShaders[i]->ir);
>>>> +
>>>> +      if (v.uses_dynamic_sampler_array_indexing()) {
>>>> +         linker_error(prog,
>>>> +                      "sampler arrays indexed with non-constant "
>>>> +                      "expressions is forbidden in GLSL %s %u",
>>>> +                      prog->IsES ? "ES" : "", prog->Version);
>>>> +         return false;
>>>> +      }
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>> +   return true;
>>>> +}
>>>> +
>>>>
>>>>   void
>>>>   link_shaders(struct gl_context *ctx, struct gl_shader_program *prog)
>>>> @@ -2948,6 +3009,16 @@ link_shaders(struct gl_context *ctx, struct
>>>> gl_shader_program *prog)
>>>>         lower_const_arrays_to_uniforms(prog->_LinkedShaders[i]->ir);
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>> +   /* Validation for special cases where we allow sampler array indexing
>>>> +    * with loop induction variable. This makes sure that all such cases
>>>> +    * have been turned in to constant expressions.
>>>> +    */
>>>> +   if ((!prog->IsES && prog->Version < 130) ||
>>
>> What about the gpu_shader5 case?
> 
> Doesn't ARB_gpu_shader5 require GLSL 1.5 at least?  AFAICT it should be
> fine.

Yes. :)

>>>> +       (prog->IsES && prog->Version < 300)) {
>>>> +      if (!validate_sampler_array_indexing(prog))
>>>> +         goto done;
>>>> +   }
>>>> +
>>>>      /* Check and validate stream emissions in geometry shaders */
>>>>      validate_geometry_shader_emissions(ctx, prog);
>>>>
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