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[PATCH 4/4] Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSan

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Mar 5, 2026, 23:13 UTC
Message-ID
<20260305231305.GD2901305@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20260305230315.GA2354983@coredump.intra.peff.net>

The past few commits fixed some cases where we leak memory allocated by mmap(). Building with SANITIZE=leak doesn't detect these because it covers only heap buffers allocated by malloc().

But if we build with NO_MMAP, our compat mmap() implementation will allocate a heap buffer and pread() into it. And thus Lsan will detect these leaks for free.

Using NO_MMAP is less performant, of course, since we have to use extra memory and read in the whole file, rather than faulting in pages from disk. But LSan builds are already slow, and this doesn't make them measurably worse. Getting extra coverage for our leak-checking is worth it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 Makefile | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f3264d0a37..4cf1afd395 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1600,6 +1600,7 @@ BASIC_CFLAGS += -DSHA1DC_FORCE_ALIGNED_ACCESS
 endif
 ifneq ($(filter leak,$(SANITIZERS)),)
 BASIC_CFLAGS += -O0
+NO_MMAP = CatchMapLeaks
 SANITIZE_LEAK = YesCompiledWithIt
 endif
 ifneq ($(filter address,$(SANITIZERS)),)
-- 
2.53.0.786.g466665faa3
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  7. 4/4 Makefile: turn on NO_MMAP when building with LSanJeff King, Mar 5, 2026
  8. Jacob KellerMar 5, 2026
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  11. Ramsay JonesMar 6, 2026
  12. Jacob KellerMar 6, 2026
  13. Jeff KingMar 6, 2026
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  23. 5/4 object-file: fix mmap() leak in odb_source_loose_read_object_stream()Jeff King, Mar 7, 2026
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