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Git often uses mmap() to access on-disk files. This leaves a blind spot in our SANITIZE=address builds, since ASan does not seem to handle mmap at all. Nor does the OS notice most out-of-bounds access, since it tends to round up to the nearest page size (so depending on how big the map is, you might have to overrun it by up to 4095 bytes to trigger a segfault). The previous commit demonstrates a memory bug that we missed. We could have made a new test where the out-of-bounds access was much larger, or where the mapped file ended closer to a page boundary. But the point of running the test suite with sanitizers is to catch these problems without having to construct specific tests. Let's enable NO_MMAP for our ASan builds by default, which should give us better coverage. This does increase the memory usage of Git, since we're copying from the filesystem into heap. But the repositories in the test suite tend to be small, so the overhead isn't really noticeable (and ASan already has quite a performance penalty). There are a few other known bugs that this patch will help flush out. However, they aren't directly triggered in the test suite (yet). So it's safe to turn this on now without breaking the test suite, which will help us add new tests to demonstrate those other bugs as we fix them. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Git - fast, scalable, distributed revision control system
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