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<h1>AddressSanitizer</h1>
<ul>
<li> <a href="#intro">Introduction</a>
<li> <a href="#howtobuild">How to Build</a>
<li> <a href="#usage">Usage</a>
<ul><li> <a href="#has_feature">__has_feature(address_sanitizer)</a></ul>
<ul><li> <a href="#no_address_safety_analysis">
__attribute__((no_address_safety_analysis))</a></ul>
<li> <a href="#platforms">Supported Platforms</a>
<li> <a href="#limitations">Limitations</a>
<li> <a href="#status">Current Status</a>
<li> <a href="#moreinfo">More Information</a>
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<h2 id="intro">Introduction</h2>
AddressSanitizer is a fast memory error detector.
It consists of a compiler instrumentation module and a run-time library.
The tool can detect the following types of bugs:
<ul> <li> Out-of-bounds accesses to heap, stack and globals
<li> Use-after-free
<li> Use-after-return (to some extent)
<li> Double-free, invalid free
</ul>
Typical slowdown introduced by AddressSanitizer is <b>2x</b>.
<h2 id="howtobuild">How to build</h2>
Follow the <a href="../get_started.html">clang build instructions</a>. <BR>
Note: CMake build does not work yet.
See <a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12272">bug 12272</a>.
<h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>
Simply compile and link your program with <tt>-faddress-sanitizer</tt> flag. <BR>
To get a reasonable performance add <tt>-O1</tt> or higher. <BR>
To get nicer stack traces in error messages add
<tt>-fno-omit-frame-pointer</tt>. <BR>
To get perfect stack traces you may need to disable inlining (just use <tt>-O1</tt>) and tail call
elimination (</tt>-fno-optimize-sibling-calls</tt>).
<pre>
% cat example_UseAfterFree.cc
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int *array = new int[100];
delete [] array;
return array[argc]; // BOOM
}
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% clang -O1 -g -faddress-sanitizer -fno-omit-frame-pointer example_UseAfterFree.cc
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If a bug is detected, the program will print an error message to stderr and exit with a
non-zero exit code.
Currently, AddressSanitizer does not symbolize its output, so you may need to use a
separate script to symbolize the result offline (this will be fixed in future).
<pre>
% ./a.out 2> log
% projects/compiler-rt/lib/asan/scripts/asan_symbolize.py / < log | c++filt
==9442== ERROR: AddressSanitizer heap-use-after-free on address 0x7f7ddab8c084 at pc 0x403c8c bp 0x7fff87fb82d0 sp 0x7fff87fb82c8
READ of size 4 at 0x7f7ddab8c084 thread T0
#0 0x403c8c in main example_UseAfterFree.cc:4
#1 0x7f7ddabcac4d in __libc_start_main ??:0
0x7f7ddab8c084 is located 4 bytes inside of 400-byte region [0x7f7ddab8c080,0x7f7ddab8c210)
freed by thread T0 here:
#0 0x404704 in operator delete[](void*) ??:0
#1 0x403c53 in main example_UseAfterFree.cc:4
#2 0x7f7ddabcac4d in __libc_start_main ??:0
previously allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x404544 in operator new[](unsigned long) ??:0
#1 0x403c43 in main example_UseAfterFree.cc:2
#2 0x7f7ddabcac4d in __libc_start_main ??:0
==9442== ABORTING
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<h3 id="has_feature">__has_feature(address_sanitizer)</h3>
In some cases one may need to execute different code depending on whether
AddressSanitizer is enabled.
<a href="LanguageExtensions.html#__has_feature_extension">__has_feature</a>
can be used for this purpose.
<pre>
#if defined(__has_feature)
# if __has_feature(address_sanitizer)
code that builds only under AddressSanitizer
# endif
#endif
</pre>
<h3 id="no_address_safety_analysis">__attribute__((no_address_safety_analysis))</h3>
Some code should not be instrumentated by AddressSanitizer.
One may use the function attribute
<a href="LanguageExtensions.html#address_sanitizer">
<tt>no_address_safety_analysis</tt></a>
to disable instrumentation of a particular function.
This attribute may not be supported by other compilers, so we suggest to
use it together with <tt>__has_feature(address_sanitizer)</tt>.
Note: currently, this attribute will be lost if the function is inlined.
<h2 id="platforms">Supported Platforms</h2>
AddressSanitizer is supported on
<ul><li>Linux x86_64 (tested on Ubuntu 10.04).
<li>MacOS 10.6 and 10.7 (i386/x86_64).
</ul>
Support for Linux i386/ARM is in progress
(it may work, but is not guaranteed too).
<h2 id="limitations">Limitations</h2>
<ul>
<li> AddressSanitizer uses more real memory than a native run.
How much -- depends on the allocations sizes. The smaller the
allocations you make the bigger the overhead.
<li> AddressSanitizer uses more stack memory. We have seen up to 3x increase.
<li> On 64-bit platforms AddressSanitizer maps (but not reserves)
16+ Terabytes of virtual address space.
This means that tools like <tt>ulimit</tt> may not work as usually expected.
<li> Static linking is not supported.
</ul>
<h2 id="status">Current Status</h2>
AddressSanitizer is fully functional on supported platforms starting from LLVM 3.1.
However, the test suite is not fully integrated yet and we lack the testing
process (buildbots).
<h2 id="moreinfo">More Information</h2>
<a href="http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/">http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer</a>.
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