> On Nov 13, 2017, at 9:05 AM, Konstantin Serebryany 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Christian Holler <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> we're currently shipping an llvm-symbolizer binary next to the firefox
> 
> "shipping" as in "shipping to the testing farm" or as in "shipping to early 
> adopters who run asan-ified firefox as their main browser"
> If the latter -- please don't. 
> llvm-symbolizer deals with extremely complicated data format (DWARF) and is 
> likely to have horrible security bugs.

Isn't the same true for the ASan runtime per se?

Kuba

> 
> If the former, I would simply suggest to have llvm-symbolizer in PATH on the 
> testing machines (or some such)
>  
> binary in our Firefox+ASan tarball. Would it make sense for the asan-rt
> to try and locate llvm-symbolizer also when it is not on PATH but in the
> same directory as the running binary and executable? I realize we could
> use ASan options or ASAN_SYMBOLIZER_PATH but that again requires custom
> wrappers or early C code that modifies the default ASan options and I
> figured this use case might not be so unusual. The target systems won't
> have llvm-symbolizer installed.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
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