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Marius CiepluchandClaude Opus 5 21fdb554aa fix(cpg): a query that could not be asked is not an empty answer
contributor-scan 5.7, and it was the wrong question.

**The 117k-line pmpro CPG does not load.** Importing it throws in a
ForkJoinParallelCpgPassWithAccumulator during overlay application, so every
query against it returns nothing. It is not a call-graph question at all.

Isolated by running the ARBITER against two prebuilt CPGs rather than
writing a sixth ad-hoc Scala probe, four of which had already failed on my
own mistakes:

  small wpdb CPG   get_order_by_code       -> 1 model_entailed
  pmpro CPG        getMemberOrderByCode    -> 0

Both have their source and sink in ONE function, both were asked with
parameter sources and depth 3, same arbiter and same spec. The CPG is the
only difference.

That clears the facts, which is worth stating: `$wpdb` sinks work, the
parameter-source rule works, and a PHP parameter reaching `$wpdb->get_var`
through a concat is entailed. Whether php2cpg resolves `new X()` and
`$this->method()` is still unmeasured -- it cannot be measured on a CPG
that will not load -- and is recorded as 5.10 along with finding the size
boundary.

**And the defect underneath it, which is the fourth quiet failure found on
this one checkout.** `query_batch` returned `{}` for a failure and `{}` for
a genuine empty answer, so a caller could not tell "could not ask" from
"nothing found". Every query on this scan failed at load and it reported
500 regions examined, no findings, and no degradation: a vulnerable plugin,
clean.

A failed batch now returns None, unparseable output counts as a failure
rather than an empty answer, and the driver records a `query_failed`
degradation naming the kind and the request count.

This is the failure mode the rung ladder structurally cannot catch. Every
other honesty mechanism here labels a VERDICT -- suspicion,
regions_unjudged, regions_unasked, stated family limits -- and when no
verdict is produced there is nothing to label.

Gates byte-identical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T7XD7x5KonMdmGRkp63EQG
2026-09-09 17:15:51 +02:00

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"""model-grounded-detection task 2.1: the Joern seam, out of process and capability-detected.
Joern is a JVM tool. The whole integration is one subprocess boundary so that the core install stays
zero-dependency and an absent engine degrades to `suspicion` with a recorded reason rather than a traceback.
Nothing here imports a JVM binding, and every test runs with Joern absent.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
def test_without_joern_the_resolved_backend_is_the_null_one(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import NullBackend, resolve_cpg_backend
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "off")
backend = resolve_cpg_backend()
assert isinstance(backend, NullBackend)
assert backend.available() is False
assert backend.build(Path(".")) is None, "an absent engine yields no CPG, and the caller degrades"
def test_the_capability_probe_reuses_the_existing_joern_probe(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""`semantic/engines.joern_available` already exists; the model layer must not grow a second probe."""
from openultrasast.cpg.capability import has_cpg
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "off")
assert has_cpg() is False
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
assert has_cpg() is True
def test_the_seam_imports_nothing_outside_the_standard_library() -> None:
"""Req 4.2: the core install has no dependencies, so the seam may not import one at module load."""
import ast
source = Path("src/openultrasast/cpg/backend.py").read_text()
imported = set()
for node in ast.walk(ast.parse(source)):
if isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom) and node.module and node.level == 0:
imported.add(node.module.split(".")[0])
elif isinstance(node, ast.Import):
imported.update(alias.name.split(".")[0] for alias in node.names)
stdlib = {
"__future__",
"json",
"os",
"re",
"shutil",
"subprocess",
"tempfile",
"dataclasses",
"pathlib",
"typing",
"collections",
"logging",
"hashlib",
}
assert imported <= stdlib, f"the seam imports outside the standard library: {sorted(imported - stdlib)}"
assert "import jpype" not in source and "py4j" not in source, "Joern is reached by subprocess, never in-process"
def test_a_scripted_backend_parses_a_query_result_without_joern(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
"""The parsing is exercised by canned JSON, so the query contract is testable with no engine installed."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import CpgResult
payload = [{"sink": "os.system", "source": "request.args", "path": ["a", "b"], "sanitized": False}]
def run(query: str, params: dict[str, object]) -> object:
assert query == "taint"
return payload
result = CpgResult(cpg_path=tmp_path / "cpg.bin", run=run)
assert result.run("taint", {}) == payload
def test_joern_output_is_read_from_a_delimited_block_not_from_noisy_stdout() -> None:
"""Joern prints a banner and a REPL prompt; the payload is fenced so the parse cannot swallow either."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import BEGIN, END, extract_payload
noisy = f"Compiling...\nJoern v4.0\n{BEGIN}\n{json.dumps([{'sink': 'eval'}])}\n{END}\njoern> \n"
assert extract_payload(noisy) == [{"sink": "eval"}]
assert extract_payload("no markers at all") is None
assert extract_payload(f"{BEGIN}\nnot json\n{END}") is None
def test_a_failing_or_slow_engine_fails_closed(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""Fail closed: a build or query that errors yields no verdict, never a wrong one."""
import subprocess
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
def boom(*args: object, **kwargs: object) -> object:
raise subprocess.TimeoutExpired(cmd="joern-parse", timeout=1)
backend = JoernBackend(runner=boom)
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
assert backend.build(tmp_path) is None
def test_the_query_scripts_are_shipped_beside_the_seam() -> None:
"""The CPGQL is ours and is data: it lives with the package, not inlined in a Python string."""
queries = Path("src/openultrasast/cpg/queries")
assert (queries / "taint.sc").is_file(), "the injection taint query must ship with the package"
def test_a_batch_is_one_invocation_carrying_many_requests(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""The cost that dominates a repository scan is JVM startup, not CPG construction.
Every `joern --script` call starts a JVM (~30s). The driver issued one per region per family, so a
ten-line Python file -- six families, one region -- took over four minutes, and 1000 regions would take
~50 hours. Batching collapses that to one invocation per query kind.
"""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import BEGIN, END, JoernBackend
calls: list[list[str]] = []
class _Done:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = f'{BEGIN}\n{{"r1": [{{"sink": "os.system(x)"}}], "r2": []}}\n{END}\n'
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
calls.append(list(command))
return _Done()
backend = JoernBackend(runner=runner)
rows = backend.query_batch(
Path("/tmp/c.bin"),
"taint",
{"r1": {"sources": ("request.args",), "sinks": ("os.system",)}, "r2": {"sources": ("request.args",), "sinks": ("eval",)}},
)
assert len(calls) == 1, "a batch must be ONE invocation, whatever it carries"
assert rows["r1"] and rows["r2"] == []
def test_a_failed_batch_yields_no_rows_for_any_request(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""Fail closed, as everywhere else: an engine that could not answer must not read as 'nothing here'."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
class _Bad:
returncode = 1
stdout = ""
stderr = "boom"
backend = JoernBackend(runner=lambda c, **k: _Bad())
assert backend.query_batch(Path("/tmp/c.bin"), "taint", {"r1": {}}) is None, (
"None means COULD NOT ASK; {} would mean the engine answered and found nothing, and a caller that "
"cannot tell them apart reports a failed scan as a clean repository"
)
def test_a_batch_result_that_omits_a_request_returns_nothing_for_it() -> None:
"""A missing key is not an empty answer: the caller must be able to tell them apart."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import BEGIN, END, JoernBackend
class _Partial:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = f'{BEGIN}\n{{"r1": []}}\n{END}\n'
backend = JoernBackend(runner=lambda c, **k: _Partial())
rows = backend.query_batch(Path("/tmp/c.bin"), "taint", {"r1": {}, "r2": {}})
assert rows.get("r1") == [] and "r2" not in rows
def test_a_built_cpg_offers_the_batch_path_to_its_driver(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""The capability must be reachable through the object the driver is handed, not merely present.
``query_batch`` was implemented, tested and committed while ``build`` returned a result carrying only
``run``. The driver discovers batching by looking for ``run_batch`` on that result, found nothing, and
fell back to one JVM per region -- silently, because every test called ``query_batch`` directly. A
repository scan is what made it visible: ~14s per region-family, one ``--param function=`` invocation at
a time.
"""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import BEGIN, END, JoernBackend
scripts: list[list[str]] = []
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
class _Done:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = f'{BEGIN}\n{{"r1": [{{"sink": "os.system(x)"}}]}}\n{END}\n'
if "--output" in command: # the parse step; make the artifact it promises
Path(command[command.index("--output") + 1]).write_text("cpg")
else:
scripts.append(list(command))
return _Done()
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
result = JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path)
assert result is not None
assert result.run_batch is not None, "a backend that can batch must expose it, or the driver cannot find it"
rows = result.run_batch("taint", {"r1": {"sources": ("request.args",), "sinks": ("os.system",)}})
assert rows["r1"], "the batch path must reach the engine, not just exist"
assert len(scripts) == 1, "one invocation for the batch"
assert not any(arg.startswith("function=") for arg in scripts[0]), "a batch carries requests, not one function"
def test_the_engine_runs_under_a_bounded_heap(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""A JVM with no -Xmx claims a quarter of physical RAM.
That is not a tuning preference. The first repository measurements were killed under memory pressure at
different points, so their numbers described the host rather than the engine, and on a contributor's
laptop an unbounded heap is the difference between a scan running in the background and a scan the
machine notices.
"""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
commands: list[list[str]] = []
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
class _Done:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = ""
commands.append(list(command))
if "--output" in command:
Path(command[command.index("--output") + 1]).write_text("cpg")
return _Done()
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
monkeypatch.delenv("OPENULTRASAST_CPG_HEAP_MB", raising=False)
result = JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path)
assert result is not None
result.run("taint", {})
assert commands, "nothing ran"
for command in commands:
assert any(arg.startswith("-J-Xmx") for arg in command), f"unbounded heap in {command[0]}"
def test_the_operator_can_raise_the_heap(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""A bound that cannot be lifted is a bound that gets removed. A big repository may need a big heap."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
commands: list[list[str]] = []
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
class _Done:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = ""
commands.append(list(command))
if "--output" in command:
Path(command[command.index("--output") + 1]).write_text("cpg")
return _Done()
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_CPG_HEAP_MB", "6144")
JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path)
assert "-J-Xmx6144m" in commands[0]
def test_a_failed_joern_parse_retries_through_the_language_frontend(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""Measured on a 637-file WordPress plugin: `joern-parse` threw after applying overlays while `php2cpg`
on the same tree produced a 4.3MB CPG with no errors. Joern's own message recommends the direct route for
a large codebase, so this is the documented fallback rather than a workaround."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
tried: list[str] = []
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
class _Result:
stderr = ""
stdout = ""
tried.append(Path(command[0]).name)
if Path(command[0]).name == "joern-parse":
_Result.returncode = 1
return _Result()
_Result.returncode = 0
Path(command[command.index("-o") + 1]).write_text("cpg")
return _Result()
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
monkeypatch.setattr("shutil.which", lambda name: f"/opt/joern/{name}")
result = JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path, language="php")
assert result is not None, "the frontend succeeded where joern-parse did not"
assert tried == ["joern-parse", "php2cpg"]
def test_an_unknown_language_has_nothing_to_retry_with(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
"""No guessing at a frontend name: a language with no mapping fails closed, as it did before."""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import JoernBackend
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
class _Result:
returncode = 1
stderr = ""
stdout = ""
return _Result()
monkeypatch.setenv("OPENULTRASAST_JOERN_PROBE", "on")
assert JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path, language="cobol") is None
assert JoernBackend(runner=runner).build(tmp_path) is None
def test_a_batch_goes_through_a_file_not_the_command_line(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
"""Linux caps a SINGLE argument at MAX_ARG_STRLEN (128KB) whatever ARG_MAX says.
2500 taint requests over a 637-file WordPress plugin is a 1.49MB payload. As `--param requests=<json>`
execve returned E2BIG, the runner caught the OSError, query_batch returned {} -- and {} reads as "no rows
found". The scan reported 500 regions examined, nothing found, and 0.05 seconds of taint query: a quiet
failure the rung ladder cannot catch, because no verdict was ever produced to label.
"""
from openultrasast.cpg.backend import BEGIN, END, JoernBackend
commands: list[list[str]] = []
class _Done:
returncode = 0
stderr = ""
stdout = f'{BEGIN}\n{{"r0": []}}\n{END}\n'
def runner(command, **kwargs): # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
commands.append(list(command))
return _Done()
cpg = tmp_path / "cpg.bin"
cpg.write_text("cpg")
big = {f"r{i}": {"sources": ("request.args",) * 40, "sinks": ("execute",) * 40} for i in range(2000)}
JoernBackend(runner=runner).query_batch(cpg, "taint", big)
argv = commands[0]
assert not any(len(arg) > 131072 for arg in argv), "no argument may approach MAX_ARG_STRLEN"
staged = [arg for arg in argv if arg.startswith("requestsFile=")]
assert staged, "the batch is staged to a file"
written = Path(staged[0].split("=", 1)[1])
assert written.is_file() and len(written.read_text()) > 200_000, "and the file holds the whole payload"