Hi Jonas,

First of all, why would you want to do such thing?
Do you have a particular use case?

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On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Jonas Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi AddressSanitizer developers,
> I’d like to selectively disable AddressSanitizer's
> poisoning/quarantine/filling for some memory allocations. I know I can
> exclude particular functions from being transformed using
> __attribute__((no_sanitize_address)). Is this also possible for particular
> memory allocations?
>
> Otherwise, I've a few ideas for how this could be implemented:
>
>    1. Create a special heap area where the “unsafe” objects reside. The
>    low level allocator for this region would not do any poisoning.
>    2. Introduce a way to tell the ASan allocator that an allocation
>    should come from the unsafe region (I’m not sure how to do this… have a
>    global flag for each thread, maybe?).
>    3. When allocating from the unsafe region, ASan would set the state in
>    the object’s header to the new “UNSAFE” value, instead of “ALLOCATED”. It
>    would otherwise behave as if heap poisoning were disabled.
>    4. When freeing an object, we would check the state in the chunk
>    header. Unsafe objects would bypass the quarantine queue and be returned to
>    the unsafe allocator directly.
>
> What are your thoughts about this? Is there a simpler way to do this?
>
> Looking forward to your thoughts! Best regards,
> Jonas
> ​
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