[LLVMdev] [PATCH] Add the disable_aslr option that will disable the address space layout randomization under AddressSanitizer on 10.6

[Kostya Serebryany]

Yes, we have no ASRL with -no_pie.
Can we disable ASRL even with -pie?
On linux we can do it with "setarch x86_64 -R".

Another question: if asan would require -no_pie on Mac, will this be a
serious limitation?

Thanks,

--kcc

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Eric Christopher <echristo at apple.com>wrote:

>    Options when creating a main executable
>      -pie        This makes a special kind of main executable that is
> position
>                  independent (PIE).  On Mac OS X 10.5 and later, the OS
> the OS
>                  will load a PIE at a random address each time it is
> executed.
>                  You cannot create a PIE from .o files compiled with -mdy-
>                  namic-no-pic.  That means the codegen is less optimal, but
>                  the address randomization adds some security. When
> targeting
>                  Mac OS X 10.7 or later PIE is the default for main
> executa-
>                  bles.
>
>      -no_pie     Do not make a position independent executable (PIE).
>  This is
>                  the default, when targeting 10.6 and earlier.
>
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Kostya Serebryany wrote:
>
> +llvmdev
>
> Question to MacOS gurus: is there a way to disable ASLR (address space
> layout randomization) on Darwin at link time
> instead of doing setenv("DYLD_NO_PIE", "1", 1); and reexec?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --kcc
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Alexander Potapenko <glider at google.com>wrote:
>
>> The attached patch introduces the disable_aslr option (off by default)
>> and the corresponding AsanDisableAslr function that should disable the
>> address space randomization.
>> This is now implemented for Mac OS 10.6 only.
>> In order to do this we add DYLD_NO_PIE=1 to the env and restart the
>> program.
>>
>> Next steps to be done are:
>>  -- check for MH_PIE bit -- if it is 0, we don't need to disable anything;
>>  -- use posix_spawnattr_setflags() to set the _POSIX_SPAWN_DISABLE_ASLR
>> on 10.7
>>  -- disable ASLR on Linux, if needed.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Potapenko
>> Software Engineer
>> Google Moscow
>>
>
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