On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Bálint Réczey <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Jakub,
>
> 2014-07-22 0:52 GMT+02:00  <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:27:06AM +0200, B??lint R??czey wrote:
> >> I plan using ASAN for all programs which would catch (among others)
> >> use-after-free and reading below or over the malloc()-ed
> >> memory area. Those can't be caught if the program uses another layer
> >> of bulk memory allocations.
> >> g_malloc() and g_slice_* has the same problem, but they can be
> >> overrideb by passing G_SLICE=always-malloc .
> >
> > We have these environment variables also, ver{3, 4} introduce
> WIRESHARK_DEBUG_WMEM_OBJECT_POOL_SKIP,
> > where you can set, and object pool will not maintain free list of
> objects.
> >
> > I see no problem with enabling it by default when building with ASAN.
> >
> > Also it should be quite easy to use ASAN manual poisoning[1] with object
> pool API.
> >
> > wmem_object_pool_alloc(wmem_allocator_t *allocator, wmem_object_pool_t
> *pool):
> >     if (pool->current_count > 0) {
> >         ...
> >         ASAN_UNPOISON_MEMORY_REGION(pool->free_list, pool->object_size);
> >         pool->free_list = pool->free_list->next;
> >
> > wmem_object_pool_free(wmem_allocator_t *allocator, wmem_object_pool_t
> *pool, void *ptr)
> >     ...
> >     ASAN_POISON_MEMORY_REGION(ptr, pool->object_size);
> >
> > (not tested).
> Thank you, I was not aware of those macros. I think we should add
> those to the custom allocator code.
>

Just setting WIRESHARK_DEBUG_WMEM_OVERRIDE=simple is easier, is it not?


> Cheers,
> Balint
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