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Valgrind Checker

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Valgrind Checker

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Valgrind Checker

Check for memory leaks, poorly managed or even not managed memory, and unclosed file descriptors

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Valgrind Checker

uses: Ximaz/valgrind-action@1.2.0

Learn more about this action in Ximaz/valgrind-action

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Valgrind Checker Action

A GitHub Action for checking your memory management using Valgrind.

This Action will check for :

  • unfree'd memory,
  • invalid read or write operations,
  • unclose'd file descriptors (files and sockets),
  • invalid usage of free, delete, delete [] or realloc,
  • uninitialised syscall params,
  • overlaps between sources and destinations for memcpy, memmove, etc...,
  • fishy arguments (possibly negative values) for unsigned expected,
  • memory allocation with a size of 0,
  • invalid alignment values.

If you want to have more details about the errors this Action supports, you can check the 4.2. Explanation of error messages from Memcheck section.

Usage

-   uses: Ximaz/valgrind-action@v1.2.0
    with:
        # Either absolute or reative path to the binary you want to check the
        # memory on.
        binary_path: ""

        # A string containing all the arguments to pass the the binary when it
        # gets checked by Valgrind.
        #
        # Default: ""
        binary_args: ""

        # The value of the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` environment variable so that the
        # binary can be executed with your custom libraries, if any.
        #
        # Default: ""
        ld_library_path: ""

        # Redzone size used by Valgrind. It represents the blocks that Valgrind
        # will check before, and after any allocated pointer so that it will
        # look if you're trying to operate on those bytes, which you are not
        # supposed to.
        #
        # Default: 16
        redzone_size: 16

        # Whether or not to track unclosed file descriptors.
        # Default: true
        track_file_descriptors: true

        # Whether or not to treat error as warning. This implies that, if set
        # to true, then the action will not exit with an error status, even if
        # Valgrind found issues during the binary execution. Also, this implies
        # that in your workflow summary, you will see warning annotations
        # instead of error ones.
        #
        # Default: false
        treat_error_as_warning: false

        # Valgrind suppressions. If specified, the content will be written into
        # a local file which will be passed to Valgrind. It represents a set of
        # specific checks to avoid. For instance, you can avoid checks for a
        # specific function, inside a specific program or library, etc...
        # Foe more detail, you can check the `2.5. Suppressing errors` section
        # on the Valgrind's documentation :
        # https://valgrind.org/docs/manual/manual-core.html
        #
        # For each found error by Valgrind, a generated suppression will be
        # logged inside your workflow's logs. That way, you will be able to see
        # if any dependency, unrelated to your implementation, is faulty for
        # not free'ing it's own memory or file descriptors.
        #
        # Generally, you want to avoid using this because you may tend to use
        # it badly in order to suppress errors about your own implemnetations,
        # so be careful.
        #
        # Default: ""
        #
        # The example below showcases how to avoid checking for the `free`
        # function, inside the `main` function.
        valgrind_suppressions: |
            {
                DontCheckFreeInMain
                Memcheck:Free
                fun:free
                fun:main
            }

        # Whether or not Valgrind should be verbose. It may be useful in case
        # you want to debug things.
        #
        # Default: false
        verbose: false