Jiri Daněk created DISPATCH-2039:
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Summary: Memory pool should be manually poisoned so that ASAN
works with them
Key: DISPATCH-2039
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DISPATCH-2039
Project: Qpid Dispatch
Issue Type: Wish
Affects Versions: 1.15.0
Reporter: Jiri Daněk
>From https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerManualPoisoning
bq. A user may poison/unpoison a region of memory manually. Use this feature
with caution. In many cases good old malloc+free is a better way to find heap
bugs than using custom allocators with manual poisoning.
As far as I can tell, it is nowadays not possible to turn of the pool
allocation and use malloc/free, because the pool mechanism also implements the
weak pointers. That means giving hints to ASAN is the only way to discover
memory bugs of the type (if what Chuck speculated is true) of DISPATCH-2032.
bq. If you have a custom allocation arena, the typical workflow would be to
poison the entire arena first, and then unpoison allocated chunks of memory
leaving poisoned redzones between them. The allocated chunks should start with
8-aligned addresses.
Alternatively, the current memory debugging machinery for the pool could take
care of it on its own... but using ASAN seems sensible to me.
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