Re: Is SANITIZE=leak make test unreliable for anyone else?
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Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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- Oct 4, 2023, 14:19 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:33:26PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> My big question is: >> >> Do other people see random test failures when SANITIZE=leak is enabled? >> >> Is it just me? > > Yes, I've seen this. You mentioned that you were testing with v2.42, > which lacks 370ef7e40d (test-lib: ignore uninteresting LSan output, > 2023-08-28). Try using the current version of 'master', or just > cherry-picking that commit onto v2.42. > > A few other tips to avoid confusing results (though they at least do not > vary from run to run): > > - use the LEAK_LOG option, since you otherwise miss some cases (it > looks like you already are from what you posted above) > > - gcc and clang sometimes produce different results. Right now I get > no leak from gcc on t9004, but clang reports one (I think clang is > right here) > > - turn off compiler optimizations; we've had cases where code > reordering/removal creates false positives. Oh, hmm, I forgot we do > this by default since d3775de074 (Makefile: force -O0 when compiling > with SANITIZE=leak, 2022-10-18), so your v2.42 should be covered.
I just tried master, aka commit d0e8084c65cb ("The fourteenth batch").What I see on a random failure looks like:
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> make -C t/ all > make[1]: Entering directory '/home/user/projects/git/git/t' > rm -f -r 'test-results' > GIT_TEST_EXT_CHAIN_LINT=0 && export GIT_TEST_EXT_CHAIN_LINT && make aggregate-results-and-cleanup > make[2]: Entering directory '/home/user/projects/git/git/t' > *** t0000-basic.sh *** > Segmentation fault > error: test_bool_env requires bool values both for $GIT_TEST_PASSING_SANITIZE_LEAK and for the default fallback
Which doesn't sound like anything you have described so I am guessing it is something with my environment I need to track down.
Eric