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ci: fix noisy clang-tidy and useless IWYU output - #8061
A recent successful run of the linux64_multiprocess lint step took 74 minutes and printed nearly 10 MB of log:
Phase
Time
Log
Result
clang-tidy
32.5 min
4.6 MB
514 clang-analyzer warnings, none from the Dash checks
IWYU
40 min
5.1 MB
1105 files fixed in a copy git does not track, empty git diff
clang-tidy noise: the partial backport of ci: Update Clang in "tidy" job bitcoin/bitcoin#33445 added src/test/.clang-tidy to the source tree. Upstream generates it into the build directory, where it covers only the capnp-generated IPC test sources. In the source tree it has no InheritParentConfig, so it replaced src/.clang-tidy for every unit test with clang-tidy's defaults (clang-diagnostic-*,clang-analyzer-*). The static analyzer then ran over all of src/test, producing all 514 warnings, 476 of them optin.performance.Padding for CNode and CConnman, repeated for each test that includes net.h.
Qt generated files: the moc/qrc filter ran only after clang-tidy, so clang-tidy still checked about 90 generated moc_*.cpp and qrc_*.cpp files. Upstream filters them out before clang-tidy.
IWYU without a result:fix_includes.py resolves file names against its working directory. Since the ci: Print iwyu patch in git diff format bitcoin/bitcoin#27012 backport it has run in build-ci/dashcore-*/src, a make distdir copy, so git diff never showed anything, while IWYU's raw output filled the log.
What was done?
Removed src/test/.clang-tidy and its AC_CONFIG_LINKS line; Dash has no generated sources in src/test. src/ipc/.clang-tidy stays: it also covers the mpgen-generated files there, as upstream's does.
lint-tidy.sh: apply the moc/qrc filter before clang-tidy as well as IWYU.
lint-tidy.sh: run fix_includes.py in src/ of the checkout, so git diff shows IWYU's suggested changes, and write IWYU's raw output only to the file fix_includes.py reads.
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Linter output: 17k lines on PR against 90k lines on develop.
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ci: fix noisy clang-tidy and useless IWYU output
Nov 5, 2026
The lint-tidy script filters selected entries from the compile database, captures IWYU output, reports failure details, and runs include fixes from the tracked source directory while excluding .capnp. files. The test-specific clang-tidy configuration that disabled clang-analyzer-security.ArrayBound is deleted, along with its configure-time link. Test changes include vector capacity reservations, construction updates, argument-name corrections, and changes to test setup.
dashpay/dash#8010: Updates compile-database filtering for the same IWYU workflow.
dashpay/dash#8056: Moves multiprocess tidy and IWYU into a separate job and changes the related lint workflow.
Merge Risk: Low · up to b3f46
The changes are lint cleanups plus test-only tweaks. One minor fuzz-target allocation overhead is worth a look, and nothing here blocks merging.
Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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The title identifies the clang-tidy noise and IWYU output fixes.
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The description covers the lint configuration and IWYU changes.
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Docstring coverage is 16.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 25 functions across 19 files.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Review comments at @ci/dash/lint-tidy.sh:
- Line 110: Update the IWYU invocation in lint-tidy.sh to print the captured
output when iwyu_tool.py fails, then exit with its original nonzero status.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '1,180p' ci/dash/lint-tidy.sh; rg -n 'iwyu_ci|artifact|upload|trap ' ci .github
Repository: dashpay/dash
Length of output: 9944
Print the IWYU output when the step fails.
The redirect at line 110 sends all IWYU output, including stderr, to /tmp/iwyu_ci.out. Nothing in lint-tidy.sh or the CI workflows prints or uploads that file. If iwyu_tool.py exits nonzero, set -e fails the step without showing the error text. Print the file before exiting on failure.
[warning] 110-110: Writing to or reading from a hardcoded, predictable path under /tmp is vulnerable to symlink and TOCTOU attacks: a local attacker can pre-create the file (or a symlink pointing elsewhere) and hijack or corrupt the contents. Generate a unique, unpredictable temporary file with mktemp instead, e.g. tmpfile="$(mktemp)" (or mktemp -d for directories) and reference "$tmpfile".
Context: "/tmp/iwyu_ci.out"
Note: [CWE-377] Insecure Temporary File.
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Review comment at @ci/dash/lint-tidy.sh at line 110:
Update the IWYU invocation in lint-tidy.sh to print the captured output when
iwyu_tool.py fails, then exit with its original nonzero status. Preserve the
existing output redirection and successful-run behavior.
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Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
At f5d007b, removing the test-specific clang-tidy configuration exposes fatal diagnostics that cause linux64_multiprocess-lint to fail before IWYU runs. The separate claim that IWYU still necessarily edits only the build copy is refuted by the tool implementation and actual relative filenames in the base CI output. Verification was static using source and CI logs; the current build and test checks passed.
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🔴 Blocking: Resolve newly fatal test diagnostics before removing the override src/test/.clang-tidy:1-3
Deleting this configuration makes the test sources inherit the curated checks and WarningsAsErrors: '*' from src/.clang-tidy. The command-line -checks option appends the cast checks rather than replacing that configuration, and -warnings-as-errors only exempts those two cast checks. Consequently, existing test diagnostics now terminate the lint job.
The exact head's linux64_multiprocess-lint job reports 60 distinct errors across 18 test files, including bugprone-argument-comment at test/llmq_qgetdata_tests.cpp:182, modernize-use-emplace at test/validation_block_tests.cpp:281, and performance-inefficient-vector-operation at test/evo_simplifiedmns_tests.cpp:64. At 21:08:16Z, the log ends with Failure generated from clang-tidy and exit code 1: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/42106767355/job/127527781889. This also prevents the IWYU changes from being reached. Include the necessary test-source corrections with the configuration removal, or explicitly scope the affected checks without broadly disabling the project checks for the rest of the tree.
source: glm-5.3-flash (phase1-reviewer: general); gpt-6.1-sol (phase2-reviewer: general, dash-core-commit-history)
Triage: low by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — This small, contained CI tooling change adjusts clang-tidy configuration and file filtering plus IWYU output handling without changing runtime behavior.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `src/test/.clang-tidy`:
- [BLOCKING] src/test/.clang-tidy:1-3: Resolve newly fatal test diagnostics before removing the override
Deleting this configuration makes the test sources inherit the curated checks and `WarningsAsErrors: '*'` from `src/.clang-tidy`. The command-line `-checks` option appends the cast checks rather than replacing that configuration, and `-warnings-as-errors` only exempts those two cast checks. Consequently, existing test diagnostics now terminate the lint job.
The exact head's `linux64_multiprocess-lint` job reports 60 distinct errors across 18 test files, including `bugprone-argument-comment` at `test/llmq_qgetdata_tests.cpp:182`, `modernize-use-emplace` at `test/validation_block_tests.cpp:281`, and `performance-inefficient-vector-operation` at `test/evo_simplifiedmns_tests.cpp:64`. At 21:08:16Z, the log ends with `Failure generated from clang-tidy` and exit code 1: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/actions/runs/42106767355/job/127527781889. This also prevents the IWYU changes from being reached. Include the necessary test-source corrections with the configuration removal, or explicitly scope the affected checks without broadly disabling the project checks for the rest of the tree.
… callers do
Every caller marks the argument as /*we_requested=*/, matching the
parameter of the functions that take the same flag, but the constructor
called it _m_we_requested. clang-tidy's bugprone-argument-comment, which
now checks the unit tests, fails on the mismatch in
llmq_qgetdata_tests.cpp.
clang-tidy's bugprone-argument-comment now checks the unit tests and
fails where a /*name=*/ comment does not match the parameter it
annotates: CGovernanceObject's nRevisionIn and strDataHexIn,
COutPoint's nIn, CTxIn's nSequenceIn, CKey::MakeNewKey's fCompressed,
the specificLegacyScheme of the BLS signing and key-setting functions,
and CTxMemPoolEntry's sigops_count, which Dash renamed from upstream's
sigops_cost.
clang-tidy now checks the unit tests with src/.clang-tidy, and fails on
Dash test code that:
- fills a vector in a loop without reserving it
(performance-inefficient-vector-operation),
- passes a temporary to push_back or emplace_back
(modernize-use-emplace),
- moves into a CDeterministicMNList, which has no move assignment
(performance-move-const-arg).
Reserve the vectors, construct the elements in place and copy instead
of the ineffective move. coinjoin_queue_tests.cpp tests that a copy of
a queue equals the original, so its copy stays, with a NOLINT for
performance-unnecessary-copy-initialization.
…itcoin#31305 backports
clang-tidy now checks the unit and fuzz tests with src/.clang-tidy, and
fails on test code that upstream fixed in these PRs but whose hunks the
backports did not carry:
- bitcoin#26642 (7e975e6): reserve request_order in
txrequest_tests.cpp.
- bitcoin#28583 (fa05a72): emplace the options RPCArg in
rpc_tests.cpp instead of constructing a temporary.
- bitcoin#31305 (11f3bc2): reserve outpoints and tx_mut.vin in the
txorphan fuzz target.
Upstream generates src/test/.clang-tidy into the build directory, where it only covers the capnp-generated IPC test sources. Linked into the source tree, it replaced src/.clang-tidy for every unit test with clang-tidy's defaults, running the static analyzer over them and printing hundreds of clang-analyzer warnings. Dash has no generated sources in src/test, so drop the file.
Without it thousands of lines of useless warnings are generated for src/test directory with default clang-tidy config
lint-tidy.sh removed the generated moc_*.cpp and qrc_*.cpp files from the compilation database only after clang-tidy had run, so the filter applied to IWYU alone, and clang-tidy spent time on code that nobody edits. Upstream filters these files before running clang-tidy. Apply the filter before both tools.
fix_includes.py edits the files named in IWYU's output relative to its working directory. lint-tidy.sh ran it in the make distdir copy in build-ci/dashcore-*/src, which git does not track, so the git diff that follows was always empty and the 40-minute IWYU step showed nothing but several MB of raw output. Upstream runs fix_includes.py in the checkout.
Run it in src/ of the checkout, so git diff shows the suggested changes, and keep IWYU's raw output out of the log. If iwyu_tool.py fails, print its errors, or the end of its output if there are none, as the clang-tidy step does.
This files are auto-generated and it causes failure of iwyu when running on CI:
...
>>> Fixing #includes in 'script/interpreter.cpp'
>>> Fixing #includes in 'util/string.h'
sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/local/bin/fix_includes.py", line 2461, in main
ProcessIWYUOutput(sys.stdin, files_to_modify, flags, cwd=os.getcwd())
File "/usr/local/bin/fix_includes.py", line 2318, in ProcessIWYUOutput
return FixManyFiles(contentful_records, flags)
File "/usr/local/bin/fix_includes.py", line 2225, in FixManyFiles
fileinfo = FileInfo.parse(iwyu_record.filename)
File "/usr/local/bin/fix_includes.py", line 538, in parse
with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'ipc/capnp/echo.capnp.h'
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- Line 43: Remove the unconditional 200,000-entry reserve for outpoints in the
txorphan fuzz setup. Let the vector grow as needed, or derive its initial
capacity from the input, so short fuzz inputs do not allocate capacity for
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src/test/evo_simplifiedmns_tests.cpp
src/test/evo_snapshot_tests.cpp
src/test/evo_trivialvalidation.cpp
src/test/fuzz/txorphan.cpp
src/test/governance_collateral_tests.cpp
src/test/governance_inv_tests.cpp
src/test/governance_vote_processing_tests.cpp
src/test/governance_vote_sync_tests.cpp
src/test/llmq_snapshot_tests.cpp
src/test/quorum_proofs_tests.cpp
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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win
Remove the unconditional 200,000-entry reserve.
If a fuzz input stops before the transaction loop, outpoints still allocates capacity for 200,000 COutPoint objects even though it holds only four. This repeats for each fuzz invocation and reduces fuzzing throughput. Let the vector grow as needed, or size its initial capacity from the input. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @src/test/fuzz/txorphan.cpp at line 43:
Remove the unconditional 200,000-entry reserve for outpoints in the txorphan
fuzz setup. Let the vector grow as needed, or derive its initial capacity from
the input, so short fuzz inputs do not allocate capacity for unused COutPoint
objects.
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2
Static review of the complete diff at b3f46f3 found no remaining correctness blockers, and the previously reported fatal test diagnostics are fixed. Current PR checks report successful lint, build, and test jobs, with none pending or failing. One non-blocking commit-history suggestion remains: combine the IWYU working-directory change with its required generated-file exclusion.
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🟡 Suggestion: Fold the capnp exclusion into the IWYU working-directory change <commit:b3f46f3e06>:1
Commit f458184 moves fix_includes.py into the tracked checkout, where generated capnp files are absent. Its immediate successor, b3f46f3, adds only the exclusion needed to make that change work; its commit message records the resulting FileNotFoundError for ipc/capnp/echo.capnp.h. These commits implement one logical change, and leaving them separate preserves an intermediate CI failure. Fold b3f46f3 into f458184, retaining the generated-file rationale in the combined message and leaving the other independent commits intact.
Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The PR changes CI analysis behavior and updates multiple tests and lint fixes, requiring ordinary tooling and test review but not changing a critical runtime surface.
These findings are from an automated code review. Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.
In `<commit:b3f46f3e06>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:b3f46f3e06>:1: Fold the capnp exclusion into the IWYU working-directory change
Commit f458184578 moves fix_includes.py into the tracked checkout, where generated capnp files are absent. Its immediate successor, b3f46f3e06, adds only the exclusion needed to make that change work; its commit message records the resulting FileNotFoundError for ipc/capnp/echo.capnp.h. These commits implement one logical change, and leaving them separate preserves an intermediate CI failure. Fold b3f46f3e06 into f458184578, retaining the generated-file rationale in the combined message and leaving the other independent commits intact.
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A recent successful run of the
linux64_multiprocesslint step took 74 minutes and printed nearly 10 MB of log:git diffsrc/test/.clang-tidyto the source tree. Upstream generates it into the build directory, where it covers only the capnp-generated IPC test sources. In the source tree it has noInheritParentConfig, so it replacedsrc/.clang-tidyfor every unit test with clang-tidy's defaults (clang-diagnostic-*,clang-analyzer-*). The static analyzer then ran over all ofsrc/test, producing all 514 warnings, 476 of themoptin.performance.PaddingforCNodeandCConnman, repeated for each test that includesnet.h.moc_*.cppandqrc_*.cppfiles. Upstream filters them out before clang-tidy.fix_includes.pyresolves file names against its working directory. Since the ci: Print iwyu patch in git diff format bitcoin/bitcoin#27012 backport it has run inbuild-ci/dashcore-*/src, amake distdircopy, sogit diffnever showed anything, while IWYU's raw output filled the log.What was done?
src/test/.clang-tidyand itsAC_CONFIG_LINKSline; Dash has no generated sources insrc/test.src/ipc/.clang-tidystays: it also covers the mpgen-generated files there, as upstream's does.lint-tidy.sh: apply the moc/qrc filter before clang-tidy as well as IWYU.lint-tidy.sh: runfix_includes.pyinsrc/of the checkout, sogit diffshows IWYU's suggested changes, and write IWYU's raw output only to the filefix_includes.pyreads.How Has This Been Tested?
Linter output: 17k lines on PR against 90k lines on develop.
Breaking Changes
None.
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