Diff-informed PR analysis

Author: cklin

src/analyze-action.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import path from "path";
 import { performance } from "perf_hooks";
 
 import * as core from "@actions/core";
+import * as github from "@actions/github";
 
 import * as actionsUtil from "./actions-util";
 import {
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import {
   runCleanup,
   runFinalize,
   runQueries,
+  setupDiffInformedQueryRun,
   warnIfGoInstalledAfterInit,
 } from "./analyze";
 import { getApiDetails, getGitHubVersion } from "./api-client";
@@ -260,6 +262,18 @@ async function run() {
       logger,
     );
 
+    const pull_request = github.context.payload.pull_request;
+    const diffRangePackDir =
+      pull_request === undefined
+        ? undefined
+        : await setupDiffInformedQueryRun(
+            pull_request.base.ref as string,
+            pull_request.head.ref as string,
+            codeql,
+            logger,
+            features,
+          );
+
     await warnIfGoInstalledAfterInit(config, logger);
     await runAutobuildIfLegacyGoWorkflow(config, logger);
 
@@ -278,6 +292,7 @@ async function run() {
         memory,
         util.getAddSnippetsFlag(actionsUtil.getRequiredInput("add-snippets")),
         threads,
+        diffRangePackDir,
         actionsUtil.getOptionalInput("category"),
         config,
         logger,

src/analyze.test.ts

@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ test("status report fields", async (t) => {
         addSnippetsFlag,
         threadsFlag,
         undefined,
+        undefined,
         config,
         getRunnerLogger(true),
         createFeatures([Feature.QaTelemetryEnabled]),

src/analyze.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { safeWhich } from "@chrisgavin/safe-which";
 import del from "del";
 import * as yaml from "js-yaml";
 
+import * as actionsUtil from "./actions-util";
 import { setupCppAutobuild } from "./autobuild";
 import {
   CODEQL_VERSION_ANALYSIS_SUMMARY_V2,
@@ -234,23 +235,225 @@ async function finalizeDatabaseCreation(
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * Set up the diff-informed analysis feature.
+ *
+ * @param baseRef The base branch name, used for calculating the diff range.
+ * @param headRef The head branch name, used for calculating the diff range.
+ * @param codeql
+ * @param logger
+ * @param features
+ * @returns Absolute path to the directory containing the extension pack for
+ * the diff range information, or `undefined` if the feature is disabled.
+ */
+export async function setupDiffInformedQueryRun(
+  baseRef: string,
+  headRef: string,
+  codeql: CodeQL,
+  logger: Logger,
+  features: FeatureEnablement,
+): Promise<string | undefined> {
+  if (!(await features.getValue(Feature.DiffInformedQueries, codeql))) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+  logger.startGroup("Generating diff range extension pack");
+  const diffRanges = await getPullRequestEditedDiffRanges(
+    baseRef,
+    headRef,
+    logger,
+  );
+  const diffRangePackDir = writeDiffRangeDataExtensionPack(logger, diffRanges);
+  logger.endGroup();
+  return diffRangePackDir;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Return the file line ranges that were added or modified in the pull request.
+ *
+ * @param baseRef The base branch name, used for calculating the diff range.
+ * @param headRef The head branch name, used for calculating the diff range.
+ * @param logger
+ * @returns An array of tuples, where each tuple contains the absolute path of a
+ * file, the start line and the end line (both 1-based and inclusive) of an
+ * added or modified range in that file. Returns `undefined` if the action was
+ * not triggered by a pull request or if there was an error.
+ */
+async function getPullRequestEditedDiffRanges(
+  baseRef: string,
+  headRef: string,
+  logger: Logger,
+): Promise<Array<[string, number, number]> | undefined> {
+  const checkoutPath = actionsUtil.getOptionalInput("checkout_path");
+  if (checkoutPath === undefined) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  // To compute the merge bases between the base branch and the PR topic branch,
+  // we need to fetch the commit graph from the branch heads to those merge
+  // babes. The following 4-step procedure does so while limiting the amount of
+  // history fetched.
+
+  // Step 1: Deepen from the PR merge commit to the base branch head and the PR
+  // topic branch head, so that the PR merge commit is no longer considered a
+  // grafted commit.
+  await actionsUtil.deepenGitHistory();
+  // Step 2: Fetch the base branch shallow history. This step ensures that the
+  // base branch name is present in the local repository. Normally the base
+  // branch name would be added by Step 4. However, if the base branch head is
+  // an ancestor of the PR topic branch head, Step 4 would fail without doing
+  // anything, so we need to fetch the base branch explicitly.
+  await actionsUtil.gitFetch(baseRef, ["--depth=1"]);
+  // Step 3: Fetch the PR topic branch history, stopping when we reach commits
+  // that are reachable from the base branch head.
+  await actionsUtil.gitFetch(headRef, [`--shallow-exclude=${baseRef}`]);
+  // Step 4: Fetch the base branch history, stopping when we reach commits that
+  // are reachable from the PR topic branch head.
+  await actionsUtil.gitFetch(baseRef, [`--shallow-exclude=${headRef}`]);
+  // Step 5: Deepen the history so that we have the merge bases between the base
+  // branch and the PR topic branch.
+  await actionsUtil.deepenGitHistory();
+
+  // To compute the exact same diff as GitHub would compute for the PR, we need
+  // to use the same merge base as GitHub. That is easy to do if there is only
+  // one merge base, which is by far the most common case. If there are multiple
+  // merge bases, we stop without producing a diff range.
+  const mergeBases = await actionsUtil.getAllGitMergeBases([baseRef, headRef]);
+  logger.info(`Merge bases: ${mergeBases.join(", ")}`);
+  if (mergeBases.length !== 1) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const diffHunkHeaders = await actionsUtil.getGitDiffHunkHeaders(
+    mergeBases[0],
+    headRef,
+  );
+  if (diffHunkHeaders === undefined) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const results = new Array<[string, number, number]>();
+
+  let changedFile = "";
+  for (const line of diffHunkHeaders) {
+    if (line.startsWith("+++ ")) {
+      const filePath = actionsUtil.decodeGitFilePath(line.substring(4));
+      if (filePath.startsWith("b/")) {
+        changedFile = filePath.substring(2);
+      } else {
+        // Not an actual file path; probably /dev/null
+        changedFile = "";
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (line.startsWith("@@ ")) {
+      if (changedFile === "") continue;
+
+      const match = line.match(/^@@ -\d+(?:,\d+)? \+(\d+)(?:,(\d+))? @@/);
+      if (match === null) {
+        logger.info(
+          `Failed to parse diff hunk header line: ${line}. Skipping.`,
+        );
+        continue;
+      }
+      const startLine = parseInt(match[1], 10);
+      const endLine = startLine + (parseInt(match[2], 10) || 1) - 1;
+      results.push([path.join(checkoutPath, changedFile), startLine, endLine]);
+    }
+  }
+  return results;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Create an extension pack in the temporary directory that contains the file
+ * line ranges that were added or modified in the pull request.
+ *
+ * @param logger
+ * @param ranges The file line ranges, as returned by
+ * `getPullRequestEditedDiffRanges`.
+ * @returns The absolute path of the directory containing the extension pack, or
+ * `undefined` if no extension pack was created.
+ */
+function writeDiffRangeDataExtensionPack(
+  logger: Logger,
+  ranges: Array<[string, number, number]> | undefined,
+): string | undefined {
+  if (ranges === undefined) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const diffRangeDir = path.join(
+    actionsUtil.getTemporaryDirectory(),
+    "pr-diff-range",
+  );
+  fs.mkdirSync(diffRangeDir);
+  fs.writeFileSync(
+    path.join(diffRangeDir, "qlpack.yml"),
+    `
+name: codeql-action/pr-diff-range
+version: 0.0.0
+library: true
+extensionTargets:
+  codeql/util: '*'
+dataExtensions:
+  - pr-diff-range.yml
+`,
+  );
+
+  const header = `
+extensions:
+  - addsTo:
+      pack: codeql/util
+      extensible: restrictAlertsTo
+    data:
+`;
+
+  let data = ranges
+    .map((range) => {
+      return `      - ["${range[0]}", ${range[1]}, ${range[2]}]\n`;
+    })
+    .join("");
+  if (!data) {
+    // Ensure that the data extension is not empty, so that a pull request with
+    // no edited lines would exclude (instead of accepting) all alerts.
+    data = '      - ["", 0, 0]\n';
+  }
+
+  const extensionContents = header + data;
+  const extensionFilePath = path.join(diffRangeDir, "pr-diff-range.yml");
+  fs.writeFileSync(extensionFilePath, extensionContents);
+  logger.info(
+    `Wrote pr-diff-range extension pack to ${extensionFilePath}:\n${extensionContents}`,
+  );
+
+  return diffRangeDir;
+}
+
 // Runs queries and creates sarif files in the given folder
 export async function runQueries(
   sarifFolder: string,
   memoryFlag: string,
   addSnippetsFlag: string,
   threadsFlag: string,
+  diffRangePackDir: string | undefined,
   automationDetailsId: string | undefined,
   config: configUtils.Config,
   logger: Logger,
   features: FeatureEnablement,
 ): Promise<QueriesStatusReport> {
   const statusReport: QueriesStatusReport = {};
 
-  const sarifRunPropertyFlag = undefined;
+  const dataExtensionFlags = diffRangePackDir
+    ? [
+        `--additional-packs=${diffRangePackDir}`,
+        "--extension-packs=codeql-action/pr-diff-range",
+      ]
+    : [];
+  const sarifRunPropertyFlag = diffRangePackDir
+    ? "--sarif-run-property=incrementalMode=diff-informed"
+    : undefined;
 
   const codeql = await getCodeQL(config.codeQLCmd);
-  const queryFlags = [memoryFlag, threadsFlag];
+  const queryFlags = [memoryFlag, threadsFlag, ...dataExtensionFlags];
 
   for (const language of config.languages) {
     try {