On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 8:47 AM Zach Laine <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks.  In case it matters, I'm using GCC, and the same thing happens
> with and without -static-libasan.
>
> To be 100% clear, do you agree that it is very unlikely that this is a bug
> fixable by changing the instrumented source code?
>
If you can show that this thing that is being freed has been allocated with
ASan's malloc, then certainly.


> Zach
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:39 PM 'Evgenii Stepanov' via address-sanitizer <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This might happen if something messed with symbol exports from the main
>> executable (if you are using llvm and asan runtime library is linked
>> statically). Things like version scripts, etc.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:38 PM Evgenii Stepanov <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like free() in libc got an address that was allocated with
>>> ASan's malloc().
>>> Yes, things like RTLD_DEEPBIND are known to cause this.
>>> Check how the call from #1 to #0 happened, and why did it bind to a
>>> libc.so symbol, and not to the asan's free().
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 1:22 PM Zach Laine <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to figure out if what I'm seeing is a legitimate SEGV --
>>>> that is, one based on the code being instrumented -- or a crash due to a
>>>> build or run environment that is hostile to ASan.
>>>>
>>>> The crash is happening in our code on a call to free(), and is showing
>>>> up in ASan runs as a SEGV in _int_free().  The ASan-uninstrumented version
>>>> does not crash in this location.
>>>>
>>>> All the references to _int_free() and ASan that Googling reveals
>>>> mention that dlopen()-ing an .so with RTLD_DEEPBIND makes one's program
>>>> ASan-incompatible.  I do not believe we are using dlopen() at all, but this
>>>> is still being investigated.  The program has quite a few external
>>>> dependencies we need to look into.
>>>>
>>>> So, my question is:  Is it possible that this _int_free() SEGV is just
>>>> a vanilla crash that is somehow only coming up because ASan has slightly
>>>> changed addresses or memory layout, etc.?
>>>>
>>>> It seems unlikely, since the usual reasons for a crash in _int_free()
>>>> are that the user wrote off one end of the allocated buffer being deleted,
>>>> or that they confused malloc/free with new/delete.  As I understand it,
>>>> ASan should have reported either of these errors before the SEGV could have
>>>> happened.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen this particular failure in the absence of RTLD_DEEPBIND?
>>>>
>>>> For reference, here is the actual ASan output:
>>>>
>>>> $ app-name
>>>> ASAN:DEADLYSIGNAL
>>>> =================================================================
>>>> ==47276==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address
>>>> 0x000000000008 (pc 0x003064a78d27 bp 0x5a00000200000008 sp 0x7fff5e959740
>>>> T0)
>>>> #0 0x3064a78d26 in _int_free (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3064a78d26)
>>>> #1 0x21914d6 in CPtrListEx::Add(void*, void*, int, int, __POSITION*)
>>>> (/lan/sig/cm/cds/19.00MainQt_asan/19.00.0321/tools.lnx86/bin/hyb_engd.exe+0x21914d6)
>>>> #2 0x216fbce in
>>>> CMessageFactory::RegisterPattern(CMessageFactory::tagMSGPTTN const*,
>>>> unsigned long)
>>>> (/lan/sig/cm/cds/19.00MainQt_asan/19.00.0321/tools.lnx86/bin/hyb_engd.exe+0x216fbce)
>>>> #3 0xbb2e14 in tagMSGFACINIT::tagMSGFACINIT()
>>>> ../../Modules/MessageFactory/MessageFactory.cpp:16
>>>> #4 0xbb2da8 in __static_initialization_and_destruction_0
>>>> ../../Modules/MessageFactory/MessageFactory.cpp:52
>>>> #5 0xbb2dc3 in _GLOBAL__sub_I_MessageFactory.cpp
>>>> ../../Modules/MessageFactory/MessageFactory.cpp:52
>>>> #6 0x9c5c97c in __libc_csu_init
>>>> (/lan/sig/cm/cds/19.00MainQt_asan/19.00.0321/tools.lnx86/bin/hyb_engd.exe+0x9c5c97c)
>>>> #7 0x3064a1ecef in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3064a1ecef)
>>>> #8 0x413d54
>>>> (/lan/sig/cm/cds/19.00MainQt_asan/19.00.0321/tools.lnx86/bin/hyb_engd.exe+0x413d54)
>>>>
>>>> AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
>>>> SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: SEGV (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x3064a78d26) in
>>>> _int_free
>>>> ==47276==ABORTING
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Zach
>>>>
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