Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
test-lib: set ASAN_OPTIONS variable before we run git
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
We turn off ASan's leak detection by default in the test
suite because it's too noisy. But we don't do so until
part-way through test-lib. This is before we've run any
tests, but after we do our initial "./git" to see if the
binary has even been built.

When built with clang, this seems to work fine. However,
using "gcc -fsanitize=address", the leak checker seems to
complain more aggressively:

  $ ./git
  ...
  ==5352==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
  Direct leak of 2 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
      #0 0x7f120e7afcf8 in malloc (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasan.so.3+0xc1cf8)
      #1 0x559fc2a3ce41 in do_xmalloc /home/peff/compile/git/wrapper.c:60
      #2 0x559fc2a3cf1a in do_xmallocz /home/peff/compile/git/wrapper.c:100
      #3 0x559fc2a3d0ad in xmallocz /home/peff/compile/git/wrapper.c:108
      #4 0x559fc2a3d0ad in xmemdupz /home/peff/compile/git/wrapper.c:124
      #5 0x559fc2a3d0ad in xstrndup /home/peff/compile/git/wrapper.c:130
      #6 0x559fc274535a in main /home/peff/compile/git/common-main.c:39
      #7 0x7f120dabd2b0 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x202b0)

This is a leak in the sense that we never free it, but it's
in a global that is meant to last the whole program. So it's
not really interesting or in need of fixing. And at any
rate, mentioning leaks outside of the test_expect blocks is
certainly unwelcome, as it pollutes stderr.

Let's bump the setting of ASAN_OPTIONS higher in test-lib.sh
to catch our initial "can we even run git?" test.  While
we're at it, we can add a comment to make it a bit less
inscrutable.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
  • Loading branch information
peff authored and gitster committed Jul 10, 2017
1 parent 8c8e978 commit d0cc579
Showing 1 changed file with 8 additions and 3 deletions.
11 changes: 8 additions & 3 deletions t/test-lib.sh
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ then
fi
GIT_BUILD_DIR="$TEST_DIRECTORY"/..

# If we were built with ASAN, it may complain about leaks
# of program-lifetime variables. Disable it by default to lower
# the noise level. This needs to happen at the start of the script,
# before we even do our "did we build git yet" check (since we don't
# want that one to complain to stderr).
: ${ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0}
export ASAN_OPTIONS

################################################################
# It appears that people try to run tests without building...
"$GIT_BUILD_DIR/git" >/dev/null
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -148,9 +156,6 @@ else
}
fi

: ${ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0}
export ASAN_OPTIONS

# Protect ourselves from common misconfiguration to export
# CDPATH into the environment
unset CDPATH
Expand Down

0 comments on commit d0cc579

Please sign in to comment.