# Contributing to Gramine¶

First off, thank you for your interest in contributing to Gramine!

In general, code contributions should be submitted to the Gramine project using a pull request.

To learn more about the knowledge required to start contributing to this project as well as some advice on contributing high-quality PRs, read through the onboarding guide.

## Reporting Bugs¶

In order to report a problem, please open an issue in the issue tracker.

## Reporting Security Vulnerabilities¶

Please report security issues to security@gramineproject.io.

## Architectural Changes¶

Major reorganizations, architectural changes, or code reorganization are best discussed with the maintainers in advance of writing code. We welcome contributions, and would hate for anyone to waste time implementing a change that will not be accepted for a design flaw. It is much better to reach out for advice first by emailing devel@gramineproject.io.

Or you can see the archives at this google group: https://groups.google.com/g/gramine-devel

Please verify that your change doesn’t introduce any insecure-by-default functionality. If an option allows users to introduce a security risk, the option should have a name prefixed with insecure__ and be disabled by default. All new insecure options must be added to the Linux-SGX PAL function print_warnings_on_insecure_configs().

Simple bugfixes need not have advance discussion, but we welcome queries from newcomers.

## Branch Names¶

For work in progress (for team members), please use your name/userid as a prefix in the branch name. For example, if user jane is adding feature foo, the branch should be named: jane/foo.

For new contributors, the branch will likely be on a fork of the repository.

Otherwise, branches without this prefix should only be created for a specific purpose, as approved by the maintainers.

## Pull Requests¶

The primary mechanism for submitting code changes is with a pull request (PR).

In general, a PR should:

1. Address a single problem.
2. Clearly explain the problem and solution in the PR and commit messages, using grammatically correct American English.
3. Include unit tests for the new behavior or bugfix, except in special circumstances, namely: when designing a unit test is difficult (e.g., the code is deep enough in Gramine that it would require extra hooks for testing) or cannot be easily tested (e.g., a performance fix).
4. Follow project’s style guidelines.
5. Be signed-off by the author of the PR in git (i.e., using the git commit -s, indicating that the authors are agreeing to the terms of the project Developer Certificate of Origin

### PR Life Cycle¶

We use git-rebase workflow and Reviewable.io for reviews.

TL;DR: Merge commits are never allowed and force-pushes are not allowed after a review has started. Before merging, commits will be cleaned up, rebased onto the current master and tested again in CI.

Detailed explanation:

1. A PR is created. If the authors know a good candidate for the review (e.g., the author of the specific component) they should assign a suggested reviewer on GitHub.
2. From this point on the branch is public, which means that one should ask reviewers’ permission before doing a force-push.
3. Reviewers shouldn’t push commits to the PR, only the authors are allowed to do so.
5. The author discusses the remarks and implements fixes in separate commits (ideally, using git commit --fixup). Loop to point 4. until the PR is approved (see PR Merging Policy).
6. One of the maintainers squashes fix-up commits with original ones, rebases the branch onto the current master and force-pushes the branch to GitHub to share.

### PR Merging Policy¶

Before a pull request is merged, it must:

1. Pass all CI tests

2. Follow project’s style guidelines.

3. Be signed-off by the contributor.

4. Introduce no new compilation errors or warnings

5. Have all discussions from reviewers resolved

6. Have a clear, concise and grammatically correct comments and commit messages.

7. Have a quorum of approving reviews from maintainers and/or waited an appropriate amount of time. This can be:

• 3 approving maintainers
• 2 approving maintainers and 5 days since the PR was created

If the author is a maintainer the limits are lowered by 1.

Additional reviews from anyone are welcome.

### Reviewing Guidelines¶

1. All commits must be atomic (i.e., no unrelated changes in the same commit, no formatting fixes mixed with features, no moving files and changing them at the same time).
2. Meaningful commit messages (it’s much easier to get them right if commits are really atomic). Should include which component was changed (PAL-{Linux,SGX} / LibOS / Docs / CI) in the format “[component] change description”.
3. Every PR description should include: what’s the purpose of the changes, what is changed (and how, in case of redesigning a component), and how to test the changes.
4. Is it possible to implement this change in a significantly better way?
5. It’s C, so check for common problems: correct buffer sizes, integer overflows, memory leaks, violations of pointer ownership etc.
6. Verify if all macro parameters are used with additional parentheses.
7. Check for race conditions.
8. Check if all errors are checked and properly handled.
9. Suggest adding assertions (if appropriate). Especially for ensuring invariants after a complex operation.
10. Check for possibilities of undefined behaviours (e.g. signed overflow).
11. If the PR fixed a bug, there should be a regression test included in the change. The commit containing it should be committed before the fix, so the reviewer can easily run it before and after the fix.
12. Code style must follow our guidelines (see below).

### Style Guidelines¶

See style guidelines.

All new contributions should be licensed under LGPL-3.0-or-later. All source files should include a license notice in SPDX format. If you modified a significant portion of a file then you should also add an entry to the list of per-file copyright notice. Please keep in mind that this list is only a courtesy notice for the readers with a rough summary of the copyrights. Because it’s just a summary, we inlude only the year of the most recent copyrighted modification to the file (to know when all the copyright claims from a specific owner expire).

## Running Regression Tests by Hand¶

All of our regression tests are automated in Jenkins jobs (see the Jenkinsfiles directory), and this is the ultimate documentation for application-level regression tests, although most tests can be run with gramine-test, or, in the worst case, should have a simple script called by Jenkins.

We also have (and are actively growing) PAL and LibOS unit tests.

In order to run tests, Gramine must be installed. The test binaries, which are also built by Meson, must be installed as well. To do that, configure your build directory with -Dtests=enabled and install Gramine:

# add -Dsgx=enabled and SGX options if necessary
meson setup build/ --werror -Dtests=enabled -Ddirect=enabled

ninja -C build/
sudo ninja -C build/ install


To run the PAL tests:

cd pal/regression
gramine-test pytest -v


For SGX, one needs to do the following:

cd pal/regression
gramine-test --sgx pytest -v


It is also possible to run a subset of tests:

gramine-test pytest -v -k TC_01_Bootstrap
gramine-test pytest -v -k test_100_basic_boostrapping


The gramine-test pytest command is a wrapper for pytest and accepts the same command-line options.

It is also possible to run a single test binary without the Python harness:

gramine-test run Bootstrap


or build a manifest and then run the binary directly:

gramine-test build Bootstrap
gramine-direct Bootstrap


For more information, run gramine-test --help and gramine-test <command> --help.

The LibOS unit tests work similarly, and are under libos/test/regression.

### LTP¶

Gramine passes a subset of the LTP tests. New changes should not break currently passing LTP tests (and, ideally, might add new passing tests). LTP is currently only supported on the Linux PAL.

To run these tests:

cd libos/test/ltp
# consider -j\$(nproc) or similar to parallelize and improve the build time.
make
make regression
# or
make SGX=1 regression
# or run an individual test by name:
python3 -m pytest -v -k chmod01


For more information on how to run the ltp tests, please refer to libos/test/ltp/README.rst.

# Management Team¶

The current members of the management team are:

• Michał Kowalczyk (Invisible Things Lab/Intel)
• Dmitrii Kuvaiskii (Intel)
• Paweł Marczewski (Invisible Things Lab/Intel)
• Borys Popławski (Invisible Things Lab/Intel)
• Don Porter (UNC)
• Chia-Che Tsai (Texas A&M University)
• Rafał Wojdyła (Invisible Things Lab/Golem)
• Mona Vij (Intel)
• Isaku Yamahata (Intel)

## The procedure for adding and removing maintainers¶

• Joining: # of PRs submitted & merged + # of PRs reviewed + # of issues closed >= 20 (this means that a PR which fixes 3 issues counts as 4). Only complete and thorough reviews count.
• Leaving: a member may be removed if not active or notoriously breaking rules from this document.
• Additionally, at least 60% (rounded up) of current members have to agree to make any change to the team membership.
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