kMaxAllowedMallocSize is pretty much arbitrary.
It looks like you are running with allocator_may_return_null=1 (not
the default!), and your program does not handle malloc() returning
NULL.

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 7:47 AM xfan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Asan reports the following error:
>
> ==6113== WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x000d5b0fd480 bytes
> ==6113== WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x000d5b0fd480 bytes
> ==6113== WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x000b8f430280 bytes
> ==6113== WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x000b8f430280 bytes
> =================================================================
> ==6113== ERROR: AddressSanitizer: unknown-crash on address 0x601c031ef620 at 
> pc 0x7fdcd413d371 bp 0x7fd890924d00 sp 0x7fd890924cd8
> READ of size 161 at 0x601c031ef620 thread T976
> ...
>
> question #1: why it is "unknown-crash" not "heap-buffer-overflow" etc. 
> meaningful error?  The memory content is as below. ipString=0x601c031ef620 
> '\b' <repeats 160 times>
>
> 0x601c031ef620: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef630: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef640: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef650: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef660: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef670: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef680: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef690: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef6a0: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef6b0: 0x0808080808080808  0x0808080808080808
> 0x601c031ef6c0: 0x0000000000000000
>
>
>
> question #2 what does "failed to allocate" means? and will it cause the above 
>  "unknown-crash" ?
> Seems my machine is not running out of memory? The program doesn't reach 
> vm.max_map_count and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory is set to 0.
> I checked the sour code it say:
> if (size > kMaxAllowedMallocSize || needed_size > kMaxAllowedMallocSize) {
>     Report("WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate %p bytes\n",
>
> How is the kMaxAllowedMallocSize decided?
>
> Thanks.
> Xingyan
>
>
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