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# Botocore and Boto integrations

Summary

Adds botocore and boto contribs with testing units:
boto : s3/ec2/sqs/lambda
botocore : s3/ec2/sqs/lambda/kinesis
Boto3 relies on botocore so it will also be traced

Compatibility

boto >=2.29.0
botocore >= 1.4.51

TODOS

Miscellanous notes

  • botocore is really clean, boto is a mess:
    • the first has one big class that customises itself in function of what service is called. The methods are created from JSON and the result has a standard format shared by all services.
    • boto has one specific class for each AWS and which can inherit from 2 different classes AWSQueryConnection (ec2 connector for exemple) and AWSAuthConnection (s3 connector ...). Both classes make_request() methods are patched but they do not contain the same metadata. For exemple AWSAuthConnection instance does not contain the operation name called on the s3 AWS.
  • boto both class AWSQueryConnection and AWSAuthConnection have a region attribute. For some it's a string, others have different classes (sqs has his own class...) but there's also a standard Region class -> this is why I added a function get_region_name

@raphaelgavache raphaelgavache requested a review from talwai March 3, 2017 21:57
Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/boto/patch.py Outdated

# Original func returns a boto.connection.HPPResponse object
result = original_func(*args, **kwargs)
span.set_tag(http.STATUS_CODE, getattr(result, "status", 500))

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let's not have it default to 500. This is a meaningful error code that influences downstream stats collection and error reporting/alerting so we do not want to set it just because there's no better candidate. Instead it's fine to set the STATUS_CODE meta only when result.status is available

Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/boto/patch.py Outdated
return result

def get_region_name(region):
if type(region) == str:

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use isinstance

Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/botocore/patch.py Outdated

def patch():
# Checking for the version compatibility before patching
if LooseVersion(pkg_resources.get_distribution("botocore").version) >= LooseVersion("1.4.51"):

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i don't think we want version matching code at this layer. instead let the patching function fail if a patchable isn't available - and patch_all will respond to this gracefully

@talwai talwai changed the title Raphael/contrib boto Boto / Botocore integration Mar 6, 2017
Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/boto/patch.py Outdated

# s3, lambda
def patched_auth_request(original_func, instance, args, kwargs):
tracer = getattr(instance, 'datadog_tracer', ddtrace.tracer)

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Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/boto/patch.py Outdated

with pin.tracer.trace('boto.command', service=DEFAULT_SERVICE, span_type=SPAN_TYPE) as span:

# Original func returns a boto.connection.HPPResponse object

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typo HTTP

Comment thread ddtrace/contrib/boto/patch.py Outdated
# Original func returns a boto.connection.HPPResponse object
result = original_func(*args, **kwargs)
span.set_tag(http.STATUS_CODE, getattr(result, "status"))
span.set_tag(http.METHOD, getattr(result, "_method", "unknown"))

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rather than set "unknown", it's ok to leave metadata unset in general when the needed attribute is not available

@palazzem palazzem mentioned this pull request Mar 9, 2017
@palazzem palazzem modified the milestone: 0.7.0 Mar 9, 2017
s3.get_all_buckets()
spans = writer.pop()
assert spans
span = spans[0]

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does length of spans matter here?

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one span is generated each time the function patched is called. For each request of the S3 client https://github.com/boto/boto/blob/develop/boto/s3/connection.py#L440, patched function gets called only once. On tests on our staging env there's a unique trace per s3 call. Yet in the mocking env I get 3 spans, I'll investigate on that

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operation_name = None
for trace in reversed(traceback.extract_stack()):
# Going backwards in the traceback till first call outside off ddtrace before make_request
if "ddtrace" not in trace[0].split('/') and trace[2] != 'make_request':

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this code worries me. if there's no more reliable way to pull an operation_name, we should at least have a length check on the stacktrace before we try to index into it arbitrarily.

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if endpoint_name in BLACKLIST_ENDPOINT:
return True
else:
return False

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just return endpoint_name in BLACKLIST_ENDPOINT

Comment thread ddtrace/ext/aws.py
else:
return False

def unpacking_args(args, args_name, traced_args_list):

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this needs a docstring

@raphaelgavache raphaelgavache merged commit 38dc43d into master Mar 16, 2017
@palazzem palazzem deleted the raphael/contrib-boto branch March 16, 2017 21:34
gh-worker-dd-mergequeue-cf854d Bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 23, 2026
…llocator (#17664)

## Description

This PR fixes a segmentation fault in the memory allocation profiler that occurs when a hook call races with `memalloc` start/stop operations. The issue arises from concurrent access to the saved allocator struct, which could be partially written while being read, resulting in`NULL` function pointers being dereferenced.  The key indicator in that case is that `#1 0x0000000000000000` frame -- we are trying to execute a null function pointer.

````
Error UnixSignal: Process terminated with SEGV_MAPERR (SIGSEGV)
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````

The fix implements two key changes.

1. **Hook functions (`memalloc_alloc`, `memalloc_realloc`)**: Snapshot the allocator struct locally before use and guard indirect function calls with `NULL` checks. This prevents crashes if a partially-written struct is observed during a start/stop race.

2. **Start/stop operations (`memalloc_start`, `memalloc_stop`)**: Use local variables and single assignments when publishing the allocator struct to `global_memalloc_ctx.pymem_allocator_obj`. This ensures concurrent hook calls observe either the old or new struct, never a partially-written intermediate state.

The real root cause is that `PyMem_GetAllocator` is not documented as atomic, and the struct could be read field-by-field while being written to concurrently.  By using local copies and single assignments, we ensure atomicity at the C level and prevent observation of inconsistent state.

Co-authored-by: thomas.kowalski <thomas.kowalski@datadoghq.com>
emmettbutler pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 24, 2026
…llocator (#17664)

## Description

This PR fixes a segmentation fault in the memory allocation profiler that occurs when a hook call races with `memalloc` start/stop operations. The issue arises from concurrent access to the saved allocator struct, which could be partially written while being read, resulting in`NULL` function pointers being dereferenced.  The key indicator in that case is that `#1 0x0000000000000000` frame -- we are trying to execute a null function pointer.

````
Error UnixSignal: Process terminated with SEGV_MAPERR (SIGSEGV)
#0   0x00007ff3c303a8d4  
#1   0x0000000000000000 memalloc_alloc (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:68)
#2   0x00007ff39dcb3b20 memalloc_alloc (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:68)
#3   0x00007ff39dcb3b20 memalloc_malloc(void*, unsigned long) (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:80)
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````

The fix implements two key changes.

1. **Hook functions (`memalloc_alloc`, `memalloc_realloc`)**: Snapshot the allocator struct locally before use and guard indirect function calls with `NULL` checks. This prevents crashes if a partially-written struct is observed during a start/stop race.

2. **Start/stop operations (`memalloc_start`, `memalloc_stop`)**: Use local variables and single assignments when publishing the allocator struct to `global_memalloc_ctx.pymem_allocator_obj`. This ensures concurrent hook calls observe either the old or new struct, never a partially-written intermediate state.

The real root cause is that `PyMem_GetAllocator` is not documented as atomic, and the struct could be read field-by-field while being written to concurrently.  By using local copies and single assignments, we ensure atomicity at the C level and prevent observation of inconsistent state.

Co-authored-by: thomas.kowalski <thomas.kowalski@datadoghq.com>
emmettbutler pushed a commit that referenced this pull request May 6, 2026
…llocator (#17664)

## Description

This PR fixes a segmentation fault in the memory allocation profiler that occurs when a hook call races with `memalloc` start/stop operations. The issue arises from concurrent access to the saved allocator struct, which could be partially written while being read, resulting in`NULL` function pointers being dereferenced.  The key indicator in that case is that `#1 0x0000000000000000` frame -- we are trying to execute a null function pointer.

````
Error UnixSignal: Process terminated with SEGV_MAPERR (SIGSEGV)
#0   0x00007ff3c303a8d4  
#1   0x0000000000000000 memalloc_alloc (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:68)
#2   0x00007ff39dcb3b20 memalloc_alloc (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:68)
#3   0x00007ff39dcb3b20 memalloc_malloc(void*, unsigned long) (/go/src/github.com/DataDog/apm-reliability/dd-trace-py/ddtrace/profiling/collector/_memalloc.cpp:80)
#4   0x00007ff3c3087e1b PyUnicode_New 
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#208 0x00007ff3c31a7ec5  
#209 0x00007ff3c301ac77  
#210 0x00007ff3c357c573  
````

The fix implements two key changes.

1. **Hook functions (`memalloc_alloc`, `memalloc_realloc`)**: Snapshot the allocator struct locally before use and guard indirect function calls with `NULL` checks. This prevents crashes if a partially-written struct is observed during a start/stop race.

2. **Start/stop operations (`memalloc_start`, `memalloc_stop`)**: Use local variables and single assignments when publishing the allocator struct to `global_memalloc_ctx.pymem_allocator_obj`. This ensures concurrent hook calls observe either the old or new struct, never a partially-written intermediate state.

The real root cause is that `PyMem_GetAllocator` is not documented as atomic, and the struct could be read field-by-field while being written to concurrently.  By using local copies and single assignments, we ensure atomicity at the C level and prevent observation of inconsistent state.

Co-authored-by: thomas.kowalski <thomas.kowalski@datadoghq.com>
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