Re: [PATCH 0/10] towards clean leak-checker output

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 10:41:51PM +0200, Martin Ågren wrote:

FWIW, this series (combined with the other series you mentioned) makes
t0000 and t0001 pass for me with gcc/clang. There are actually some
leaks in t0000, they're just silently being reported to stderr, since
the exit statuses from git are hidden by pipes. Maybe you're already
aware of it. Depending on your definition of "running clean" it might be
out of scope for this series, which is of course still very interesting
and enlightening as it stands.

Yeah, I saw those. I don't think they're worth hunting down at this
point. It's quite probable that the same leaks are exercised elsewhere,
and we'll catch them later.

Once the whole test suite runs without reporting any leaks via abort(),
I'll feel more compelled to start grepping stderr for other cases. :)

One is in cmd_show (you did mention git show) where we leak data in rev.
The other is some use of strdup. I can't immediately figure out how to
get a useful stacktrace (you mentioned this as well) and it's past
bed-time here. I'll try to play more with this tomorrow.

I think I got funny truncated stack traces with just LSAN that went away
with ASAN, but I didn't dig. If you try that, remember that:

  - Technically just SANITIZE=address turns on the leak detector, but
    you need "leak" in the string to turn on the UNLEAK() magic. So use
    "SANITIZE=address,leak".

  - You'll have to set ASAN_OPTIONS=abort_on_error=1 in the environment
    manually to enable leak detection.

Once the test suite passes with leak detection on, I think we'd probably
do both of those automatically (but until then they make ASAN by itself
unusable).

Note for self: getting rid of all pipes would probably also help flush
out a few leaks (or "introduce" them, depending on your viewpoint).

Agreed. These leaks are really just a special form of bug. Those pipes
could be hiding other bugs, too. But again, I'm not too concerned. The
places that pipe git are doing so because they are not meant to be
testing that particular command (and it should generally be covered
elsewhere).

-Peff