backtrace/
lib.rs

1//! A library for acquiring a backtrace at runtime
2//!
3//! This library is meant to supplement the `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` support of the
4//! standard library by allowing an acquisition of a backtrace at runtime
5//! programmatically. The backtraces generated by this library do not need to be
6//! parsed, for example, and expose the functionality of multiple backend
7//! implementations.
8//!
9//! # Usage
10//!
11//! First, add this to your Cargo.toml
12//!
13//! ```toml
14//! [dependencies]
15//! backtrace = "0.3"
16//! ```
17//!
18//! Next:
19//!
20//! ```
21//! fn main() {
22//! # // Unsafe here so test passes on no_std.
23//! # #[cfg(feature = "std")] {
24//!     backtrace::trace(|frame| {
25//!         let ip = frame.ip();
26//!         let symbol_address = frame.symbol_address();
27//!
28//!         // Resolve this instruction pointer to a symbol name
29//!         backtrace::resolve_frame(frame, |symbol| {
30//!             if let Some(name) = symbol.name() {
31//!                 // ...
32//!             }
33//!             if let Some(filename) = symbol.filename() {
34//!                 // ...
35//!             }
36//!         });
37//!
38//!         true // keep going to the next frame
39//!     });
40//! }
41//! # }
42//! ```
43//!
44//! # Backtrace accuracy
45//!
46//! This crate implements best-effort attempts to get the native backtrace. This
47//! is not always guaranteed to work, and some platforms don't return any
48//! backtrace at all. If your application requires accurate backtraces then it's
49//! recommended to closely evaluate this crate to see whether it's suitable
50//! for your use case on your target platforms.
51//!
52//! Even on supported platforms, there's a number of reasons that backtraces may
53//! be less-than-accurate, including but not limited to:
54//!
55//! * Unwind information may not be available. This crate primarily implements
56//!   backtraces by unwinding the stack, but not all functions may have
57//!   unwinding information (e.g. DWARF unwinding information).
58//!
59//! * Rust code may be compiled without unwinding information for some
60//!   functions. This can also happen for Rust code compiled with
61//!   `-Cpanic=abort`. You can remedy this, however, with
62//!   `-Cforce-unwind-tables` as a compiler option.
63//!
64//! * Unwind information may be inaccurate or corrupt. In the worst case
65//!   inaccurate unwind information can lead this library to segfault. In the
66//!   best case inaccurate information will result in a truncated stack trace.
67//!
68//! * Backtraces may not report filenames/line numbers correctly due to missing
69//!   or corrupt debug information. This won't lead to segfaults unlike corrupt
70//!   unwinding information, but missing or malformed debug information will
71//!   mean that filenames and line numbers will not be available. This may be
72//!   because debug information wasn't generated by the compiler, or it's just
73//!   missing on the filesystem.
74//!
75//! * Not all platforms are supported. For example there's no way to get a
76//!   backtrace on WebAssembly at the moment.
77//!
78//! * Crate features may be disabled. Currently this crate supports using Gimli
79//!   libbacktrace on non-Windows platforms for reading debuginfo for
80//!   backtraces. If both crate features are disabled, however, then these
81//!   platforms will generate a backtrace but be unable to generate symbols for
82//!   it.
83//!
84//! In most standard workflows for most standard platforms you generally don't
85//! need to worry about these caveats. We'll try to fix ones where we can over
86//! time, but otherwise it's important to be aware of the limitations of
87//! unwinding-based backtraces!
88
89#![deny(missing_docs)]
90#![no_std]
91#![cfg_attr(
92    all(feature = "std", target_env = "sgx", target_vendor = "fortanix"),
93    feature(sgx_platform)
94)]
95#![warn(rust_2018_idioms)]
96// When we're building as part of libstd, silence all warnings since they're
97// irrelevant as this crate is developed out-of-tree.
98#![cfg_attr(backtrace_in_libstd, allow(warnings))]
99#![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), allow(dead_code))]
100
101#[cfg(feature = "std")]
102#[macro_use]
103extern crate std;
104
105// This is only used for gimli right now, which is only used on some platforms, and miri
106// so don't worry if it's unused in other configurations.
107#[allow(unused_extern_crates)]
108extern crate alloc;
109
110pub use self::backtrace::{trace_unsynchronized, Frame};
111mod backtrace;
112
113pub use self::symbolize::resolve_frame_unsynchronized;
114pub use self::symbolize::{resolve_unsynchronized, Symbol, SymbolName};
115mod symbolize;
116
117pub use self::types::BytesOrWideString;
118mod types;
119
120#[cfg(feature = "std")]
121pub use self::symbolize::clear_symbol_cache;
122
123mod print;
124pub use print::{BacktraceFmt, BacktraceFrameFmt, PrintFmt};
125
126cfg_if::cfg_if! {
127    if #[cfg(feature = "std")] {
128        pub use self::backtrace::trace;
129        pub use self::symbolize::{resolve, resolve_frame};
130        pub use self::capture::{Backtrace, BacktraceFrame, BacktraceSymbol};
131        mod capture;
132    }
133}
134
135cfg_if::cfg_if! {
136    if #[cfg(all(target_env = "sgx", target_vendor = "fortanix", not(feature = "std")))] {
137        pub use self::backtrace::set_image_base;
138    }
139}
140
141#[cfg(feature = "std")]
142mod lock {
143    use std::boxed::Box;
144    use std::cell::Cell;
145    use std::ptr;
146    use std::sync::{Mutex, MutexGuard, Once};
147
148    /// A "Maybe" LockGuard
149    pub struct LockGuard(Option<MutexGuard<'static, ()>>);
150
151    /// The global lock, lazily allocated on first use
152    static mut LOCK: *mut Mutex<()> = ptr::null_mut();
153    static INIT: Once = Once::new();
154    // Whether this thread is the one that holds the lock
155    thread_local!(static LOCK_HELD: Cell<bool> = Cell::new(false));
156
157    impl Drop for LockGuard {
158        fn drop(&mut self) {
159            // Don't do anything if we're a LockGuard(None)
160            if self.0.is_some() {
161                LOCK_HELD.with(|slot| {
162                    // Immediately crash if we somehow aren't the thread holding this lock
163                    assert!(slot.get());
164                    // We are no longer the thread holding this lock
165                    slot.set(false);
166                });
167            }
168            // lock implicitly released here, if we're a LockGuard(Some(..))
169        }
170    }
171
172    /// Acquire a partially unsound(!!!) global re-entrant lock over
173    /// backtrace's internals.
174    ///
175    /// That is, this lock can be acquired as many times as you want
176    /// on a single thread without deadlocking, allowing one thread
177    /// to acquire exclusive access to the ability to make backtraces.
178    /// Calls to this locking function are freely sprinkled in every place
179    /// where that needs to be enforced.
180    ///
181    ///
182    /// # Why
183    ///
184    /// This was first introduced to guard uses of Windows' dbghelp API,
185    /// which isn't threadsafe. It's unclear if other things now rely on
186    /// this locking.
187    ///
188    ///
189    /// # How
190    ///
191    /// The basic idea is to have a single global mutex, and a thread_local
192    /// boolean saying "yep this is the thread that acquired the mutex".
193    ///
194    /// The first time a thread acquires the lock, it is handed a
195    /// `LockGuard(Some(..))` that will actually release the lock on Drop.
196    /// All subsequence attempts to lock on the same thread will see
197    /// that their thread acquired the lock, and get `LockGuard(None)`
198    /// which will do nothing when dropped.
199    ///
200    ///
201    /// # Safety
202    ///
203    /// As long as you only ever assign the returned LockGuard to a freshly
204    /// declared local variable, it will do its job correctly, as the "first"
205    /// LockGuard will strictly outlive all subsequent LockGuards and
206    /// properly release the lock when the thread is done with backtracing.
207    ///
208    /// However if you ever attempt to store a LockGuard beyond the scope
209    /// it was acquired in, it might actually be a `LockGuard(None)` that
210    /// doesn't actually hold the lock! In this case another thread might
211    /// acquire the lock and you'll get races this system was intended to
212    /// avoid!
213    ///
214    /// This is why this is "partially unsound". As a public API this would
215    /// be unacceptable, but this is crate-private, and if you use this in
216    /// the most obvious and simplistic way it Just Works™.
217    ///
218    /// Note however that std specifically bypasses this lock, and uses
219    /// the `*_unsynchronized` backtrace APIs. This is "fine" because
220    /// it wraps its own calls to backtrace in a non-reentrant Mutex
221    /// that prevents two backtraces from getting interleaved during printing.
222    pub fn lock() -> LockGuard {
223        // If we're the thread holding this lock, pretend to acquire the lock
224        // again by returning a LockGuard(None)
225        if LOCK_HELD.with(|l| l.get()) {
226            return LockGuard(None);
227        }
228        // Insist that we totally are the thread holding the lock
229        // (our thread will block until we are)
230        LOCK_HELD.with(|s| s.set(true));
231        unsafe {
232            // lazily allocate the lock if necessary
233            INIT.call_once(|| {
234                LOCK = Box::into_raw(Box::new(Mutex::new(())));
235            });
236            // ok *actually* try to acquire the lock, blocking as necessary
237            LockGuard(Some((*LOCK).lock().unwrap()))
238        }
239    }
240}
241
242#[cfg(all(
243    windows,
244    any(
245        target_env = "msvc",
246        all(target_env = "gnu", any(target_arch = "x86", target_arch = "arm"))
247    ),
248    not(target_vendor = "uwp")
249))]
250mod dbghelp;
251// Auto-generated by windows-bindgen/riddle
252#[cfg(windows)]
253mod windows_sys;