On Fri Jan 16 2015 at 9:18:48 PM Konstantin Serebryany <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 12:42 AM, 'Alexander Potapenko' via
> address-sanitizer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Kuba Brecka <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I'd like to propose turning on the ASan runtime flag "abort_on_error" by
>> > default on OS X. The main reason for that is crash logs: on OS X, crash
>> > reports are stored for all crashes, but ASan currently makes the program
>> > exit(1) by default, which is not a crash. This can make you completely
>> miss
>> > some ASan report, especially in cases where you don't directly look at
>> the
>> > console output (you're logging into a file or something).
>> Will ASan reports be stored along with the crash reports
>> automatically? If no, can we fix that somehow?
>>
>> > I know there's some downsides of that, for example that crashes generate
>> > core dumps which are huge with ASan - therefore I'm only proposing this
>> for
>> > OS X where we don't generate core dumps by default. Another thing that
>> I'm
>> > aware of is the ASan test suite, which would generate hundreds of crash
>> logs
>> > (that's undesirable) and run much slower, so we would probably need to
>> > disable abort_on_error for it.
>> It's possible to unmap the shadow before generating the core dump,
>> that shouldn't be a huge problem.
>>
>
> We can also implement
> https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/issues/detail?id=345
> (MADV_DONTDUMP)
> to dump core for everything except shadow memory (and large allocator
> space on 64-bit).
> Not sure if MADV_DONTDUMP is present on OSX.
>
>
>>
>> > Regardless of these, it still seems to me that abort_on_error=1 is a
>> more
>> > logical default value than the current default. Is there a strong reason
>> > against that?
>> I don't see any strong reasons.
>>
>
> Some reasons against it:
>   - consistency with other OSes and other sanitizers.
>   - change in existing behavior
>   - default behavior becomes more heavyweight/slow
>
> Do we want to change the behavior of asan on Linux and of other santizers?
> (I don't)
>

abort() makes more sense than a non-zero exit for ASan, but changing the
default now can break a lot of integration.


>
>
>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Kuba
>> >
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