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Detect pointer math wrap-around (overflow and underflow) #344

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Much like issue #26 and issue #27, we must mitigate pointer arithmetic wrap-around (overflow/underflow). This should be possible via -fsanitize=pointer-overflow but it has similar problems as the other issues, namely -fwrapv-pointer.

  • make sanitizer work with -fwrapv-pointer (and -fno-strict-overflow)
  • fix sanitizer to work at all on Clang: Sanitizer pointer-overflow does not appear to function llvm/llvm-project#66451
  • create "expected pointer overflow" helper inline functions marked with attribute((no_sanitize("pointer-overflow"))).
  • find all true positives and replace with helper calls.
  • add note to "deprecated.rst" with something like "open coded pointer math wrap around without a helper".
  • add pointer overflow as a UBSan Kconfig

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