https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70541
Bug ID: 70541 Summary: unnoticed invalid dereference when using address sanitizer Product: gcc Version: 5.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: sanitizer Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: christof.warlich at siemens dot com CC: dodji at gcc dot gnu.org, dvyukov at gcc dot gnu.org, jakub at gcc dot gnu.org, kcc at gcc dot gnu.org Target Milestone: --- The code below was ccompiled as: $ gcc -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g sanitize.c When executing the result, the sanitizer only complains about the invalid dereference of the second printf statement, while the first one goes unnoticed. #include #include struct Simple { int value; }; int f(struct Simple simple) { return simple.value; } int g(int value) { return value; } int main() { struct Simple *psimple = (struct Simple *) malloc(sizeof(struct Simple)); psimple->value = 42; free(psimple); printf("%d\n", f(*psimple)); int *pint = (int *) malloc(sizeof(int)); *pint = 24; free(pint); printf("%d\n", g(*pint)); return 0; } $ gcc-5 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc-5 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/5/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 5.3.0-3ubuntu1~14.04' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-5/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-5 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --disable-libstdcxx-dual-abi --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-vtable-verify --enable-libmpx --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-5-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --enable-multilib --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 5.3.0 20151204 (Ubuntu 5.3.0-3ubuntu1~14.04)