On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:57:53 GMT, Justin King <jck...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This change instruments Metaspace for ASan. Metaspace allocates memory using >> `mmap`/`munmap` which ASan is not aware of. Fortunately ASan supports >> applications [manually poisoning/unpoisoning >> memory](https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerManualPoisoning). >> ASan is able to detect poisoned memory, similar to `use-after-free`, and >> will raise an error similarly called `use-after-poison`. This provides and >> extra layer of defense and confidence. >> >> The header `sanitizers/address.h` defines macros for poisoning/unpoisoning >> memory regions. These macros can be used regardless of build mode. When ASan >> is not available, they are implemented using a NOOP approach which still >> compiles the arguments but does so such that they will be stripped out by >> the compiler due to being unreachable. This helps with maintenance. >> >> This also has the added benefit of making >> [LSan](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298445) more accurate and >> deterministic, as LSan will not look for pointers to malloc memory in >> poisoned memory regions. >> >> IMO the benefit of doing this greatly outweighs the cost. > > Justin King has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Address review feedback > > Signed-off-by: Justin King <jck...@google.com> Good from my end, if the general objections against adding tool support like this are addressed (see @dholmes-ora 's comment in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8298445). Cheers, Thomas ------------- Marked as reviewed by stuefe (Reviewer). PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11702
