[dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] porting AddressSanitizer feature to DPDK

[Lin, Xueqin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 5:04 PM
> To: Lin, Xueqin <xueqin.lin at intel.com>
> Cc: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com>; Peng, ZhihongX
> <zhihongx.peng at intel.com>; Burakov, Anatoly
> <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>; Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen at networkplumber.org>; dpdk-dev <dev at dpdk.org>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC v2] porting AddressSanitizer feature to DPDK
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:49 AM Lin, Xueqin <xueqin.lin at intel.com> wrote:
> > > > Suggest listing demo code and tool capture information for user to
> > > > try if
> > > tool works, also add this part into doc.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > # Also, Please update the release note for this feature.
> > > > Sure, we can update the release note if code merge.
> > >
> > > Probably you can send v1 version next i.e change the RFC status to
> > > get merged.
> >
> > Sure, we will send v1 patch if no obvious objection for that, hope patch
> could receive some ACKs and could success to merge, thanks.
> 
> How did you test this work?
> 
> UNH recently started testing with ASAN and it reveals leaks just in the unit
> test.
Our lab WIP to run regression test with enabling Asan tool build, already reported dozens of issues by Asan tool, continue for unit test and issue resolve. 
> 
> Merging these annotations will help catch more issues.
> But users will hit the current issues that we must fix first.
> 
> 
Yeah, it is a powerful tool that could help to catch more issues and error log print, happy that more guys found this tool value and working on this. 
So it is important and meaningful if this tool code could merge. 
These issues only captured when enable Asan tool build, without the tool, not impact current test, also this tool is not supported before. 
We are trying our best and WIP to do regression test based on our all of current regression test cases, capture issues and check. 
Some resolved issue patches for Asan detected have been merged, and found that some of issues we captured are same to UNH captured.
But we can't cover all, once the code merge, more users could guarantee if their code or module have memory issue, and supply solution for issue fix. 

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> David Marchand