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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@github.com>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: suppress annotated leaks with certain ASan options
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 11:41:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsfg5vvrk.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b1efe56ab5193d5505ccb9334f7d15e1795c27fb.1674240261.git.me@ttaylorr.com> (Taylor Blau's message of "Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:46:16 -0500")

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> However, it is possible to use the leak sanitizer without
> `SANITIZE=leak`. This happens when building with `SANITIZE=address` and
> enabling the leak sanitizer via the `ASAN_OPTIONS` variable (by
> including the string "detect_leaks=1").

Yuck.  I cannot tell if this falls into "don't do it then if it
hurts" or pretty common thing people do that is worth helping.

> Making it possible to rely on `UNLEAK()` when implicitly using the leak
> checker via SANITIZE=address builds.

But as long as you did all the work, sure, why not ;-).

> I found this while playing around with GitHub's ASan-enabled CI builds
> for our internal fork following a merge with v2.38.3.
>
> The check-chainlint recipe in t/Makefile started using "git diff" via
> d00113ec34 (t/Makefile: apply chainlint.pl to existing self-tests,
> 2022-09-01), which triggered a leak in some of GitHub's custom code. I
> was surprised when marking the variable with UNLEAK() didn't do the
> trick, and ended up down this rabbit hole ;-).

Thanks.  Will queue.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-20 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-20 18:46 [PATCH] Makefile: suppress annotated leaks with certain ASan options Taylor Blau
2023-01-20 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2023-01-20 20:15 ` Jeff King
2023-01-20 20:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2023-01-20 20:55   ` Jeff King

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