Smart contracts tooling aggregator

The goal of this repo is to find a good way of integrating static analysis tools for smart contracts into CI pipelines. Ideally, this should be be easy to pick up and use by any project using smart contracts (dapps, wallets, etc).

The main challenges to overcome appear to be:

- seamless installation and configuration of all tools
- invocation of each tool taking into account its specifics (sometimes on things as simple as where contracts need to be located)

Strategy

Create a static binary that invokes minimal self contained docker containers for each tool. Aggregate all invocation results and present them nicely (in a webpage like solhydra or in a cli as to include in CI pipelines)

This way, at little to no effort to the developer a full, detailed analysis of a smart contract can be obtained.

Key tools for linting and static analysis

- solc - compile (portable)
- Solium - lint (depends on npm)
- solgraph - function control flow visualiation (depends on npm)
- Oyente - static analysis (depends on pip)
- MAIAN - static analysis (python, but no distributable release, must get from source)  (removed due to lack of maintenance)
- mythril - static analysis (depends on pip)
- echidna - fuzz tester (haskell compiled binary)

Install

solsa is a rust standalone binary available on crates.io, but it does depend on a few docker images it expects to find already installed.

To install the solsa command, do

cargo install solsa

To install the docker images it depends on do

docker pull enhancedsociety/solc
docker pull enhancedsociety/solium
docker pull enhancedsociety/oyente
docker pull enhancedsociety/mythril

these images have been optimized for size and ease of use, so they are prepared to be run independently, and are much much MUCH smaller than their official or naively built counterparts.

Usage

$ solsa -h

solsa 1.0
Enhanced Society
Aggregates static analysis tooling for ethereum smart contracts.

USAGE:
    solsa [OPTIONS] -f <contract-file>

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -f <contract-file>        
    -o <output>                [default: index.html]

Example run

$ solsa -f contracts/BurnableCrowdsaleToken.sol -o BurnableCrowdsaleToken.html

would produce file BurnableCrowdsaleToken.html with the full report

Standalone docker images

The docker images in this repository can be independently summoned to use the available tools without solsa. They assume access to a directory with all the required contracts and metadata at /src, which would make invoking solium, for example, look like this:

$ docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/src:ro enhancedsociety/solium -f contracts/UpgradeableToken.sol

contracts/UpgradeableToken.sol
  53:2      error      No visibility specified explicitly for UpgradeableToken function.    security/enforce-explicit-visibility
  65:8      error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  69:22     error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  79:6      warning    Use emit statements for triggering events.                           emit
  89:8      error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  92:24     error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  94:39     error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  96:55     error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  101:41    error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  103:57    error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  105:6     warning    Use emit statements for triggering events.                           emit
  111:36    warning    Use 'view' instead of deprecated 'constant'.                         no-constant
  124:25    error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  125:39    error      Consider using 'revert()' in place of deprecated 'throw'.            security/no-throw
  132:31    warning    Use 'view' instead of deprecated 'constant'.                         no-constant

✖ 11 errors, 4 warnings found.

for ease of use you can set up the following alias (drop it in your .bashrc or equivalent)

function docker-run-here () { docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/src:ro $@ }

which would turn the initial command into

docker-run-here enhancedsociety/solium -f contracts/UpgradeableToken.sol

TODO

• Improve README's Usage section with example screenshots/asciinema casts
• Add verbose flag
• Add flag to tune analysis thoroughness/performance tradeoff
• Reintroduce echidna
• Add solgraph
• Add tests
• Reintroduce CLI mode
• Reintroduce MAIAN (wait for upstream/port to py3) or give up on it altogether
• [NEVERENDING] keep finding, evaluating and integrating tools to improve quality of contracts developed