[llvm-bugs] [Bug 37545] New: asan global instrumentation broken for interposed global variables

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https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37545

            Bug ID: 37545
           Summary: asan global instrumentation broken for interposed
                    global variables
           Product: compiler-rt
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P
         Component: compiler-rt
          Assignee: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
          Reporter: richard-llvm at metafoo.co.uk
                CC: llvm-bugs at lists.llvm.org

Situation:

main binary contains a weak definition of global symbol foo
foo.so contains a strong definition of global symbol foo

ASan instruments the strong definition but not the weak one:

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Transforms/Instrumentation/AddressSanitizer.cpp#L1661

Now, after dynamic linking, the program has only one definition of foo (the one
from the main binary) but still has the global registration code from foo.so,
which tries to register that global symbol.

In my test case, the registration fails because the weak definition is
underaligned for a sanitized global, and ASan reports a bogus ODR violation
error. If the alignment happens to match, ASan would presumably instead mark a
bogus region of the address space as being global redzone.


As of r332028, Clang creates the above situation for entirely valid code:

// main.cc
#include <typeinfo>
struct A;
auto &x = typeid(A*);
void use_foo();
int main() { use_foo(); }

// foo.cc
struct A {
  virtual void f();
};
void A::f() {}
void use_foo() {}

$ clang++ foo.cc -shared -o /tmp/foo.so -fsanitize=address
$ clang++ /tmp/foo.so main.cc -o /tmp/main -fsanitize=address
$ /tmp/main
==211158==The following global variable is not properly aligned.
==211158==This may happen if another global with the same name
==211158==resides in another non-instrumented module.
==211158==Or the global comes from a C file built w/o -fno-common.
==211158==In either case this is likely an ODR violation bug,
==211158==but AddressSanitizer can not provide more details.
=================================================================
==211158==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: odr-violation (0x00000050a1d6):
  [1] size=3 'typeinfo name for A' -
  [2] size=3 'typeinfo name for A' -
These globals were registered at these points:
  [1]:
    #0 0x42dcfe in
__asan_register_globals[...]/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_globals.cc:358:3
    #1 0x7f32dfe18a70 in asan.module_ctor (/tmp/foo.so+0xa70)

  [2]:
    #0 0x42dcfe in __asan_register_globals
[...]/compiler-rt/lib/asan/asan_globals.cc:358:3
    #1 0x7f32dfe18a70 in asan.module_ctor (/tmp/foo.so+0xa70)

==211158==HINT: if you don't care about these errors you may set
ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_odr_violation=0
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: odr-violation: global 'typeinfo name for A' at -
==211158==ABORTING

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