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**Mitigation for:** google/sanitizers#749

**Disclosure:** I'm not an ASan compiler expert yet (I'm trying to
learn!), I primarily work in the runtime. Some of this PR was developed
with the help of AI tools (primarily as a "fuzzy `grep` engine"), but
I've manually refined and tested the output, and can speak for every
line. In general, I used it only to orient myself and for
"rubberducking".

**Context:**

The msvc ASan team (👋 ) has received an internal request to improve
clang's exception handling under ASan for Windows. Namely, we're
interested in **mitigating** this bug:
google/sanitizers#749

To summarize, today, clang + ASan produces a false-positive error for
this program:

```C++
#include <cstdio>
#include <exception>
int main()
{
	try	{
		throw std::exception("test");
	}catch (const std::exception& ex){
		puts(ex.what());
	}
	return 0;
}
```

The error reads as such:


```
C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream>type main.cpp
#include <cstdio>
#include <exception>
int main()
{
        try     {
                throw std::exception("test");
        }catch (const std::exception& ex){
                puts(ex.what());
        }
        return 0;
}
C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream>"C:\Users\dajusto\source\repos\llvm-project\build.runtimes\bin\clang.exe" -fsanitize=address -g -O0 main.cpp

C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream>a.exe
=================================================================
==19112==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: access-violation on unknown address 0x000000000000 (pc 0x7ff72c7c11d9 bp 0x0080000ff960 sp 0x0080000fcf50 T0)
==19112==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==19112==Hint: address points to the zero page.
    #0 0x7ff72c7c11d8 in main C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream\main.cpp:8
    #1 0x7ff72c7d479f in _CallSettingFrame C:\repos\msvc\src\vctools\crt\vcruntime\src\eh\amd64\handlers.asm:49
    #2 0x7ff72c7c8944 in __FrameHandler3::CxxCallCatchBlock(struct _EXCEPTION_RECORD *) C:\repos\msvc\src\vctools\crt\vcruntime\src\eh\frame.cpp:1567
    #3 0x7ffb4a90e3e5  (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll+0x18012e3e5)
    #4 0x7ff72c7c1128 in main C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream\main.cpp:6
    #5 0x7ff72c7c33db in invoke_main C:\repos\msvc\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:78
    #6 0x7ff72c7c33db in __scrt_common_main_seh C:\repos\msvc\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288
    #7 0x7ffb49b05c06  (C:\WINDOWS\System32\KERNEL32.DLL+0x180035c06)
    #8 0x7ffb4a8455ef  (C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll+0x1800655ef)

==19112==Register values:
rax = 0  rbx = 80000ff8e0  rcx = 27d76d00000  rdx = 80000ff8e0
rdi = 80000fdd50  rsi = 80000ff6a0  rbp = 80000ff960  rsp = 80000fcf50
r8  = 100  r9  = 19930520  r10 = 8000503a90  r11 = 80000fd540
r12 = 80000fd020  r13 = 0  r14 = 80000fdeb8  r15 = 0
AddressSanitizer can not provide additional info.
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: access-violation C:\Users\dajusto\source\repros\upstream\main.cpp:8 in main
==19112==ABORTING
```

The root of the issue _appears to be_ that ASan's instrumentation is
incompatible with Window's assumptions for instantiating `catch`-block's
parameters (`ex` in the snippet above).

The nitty gritty details are lost on me, but I understand that to make
this work without loss of ASan coverage, a "serious" refactoring is
needed. In the meantime, users risk false positive errors when pairing
ASan + catch-block parameters on Windows.

**To mitigate this** I think we should avoid instrumenting catch-block
parameters on Windows. It appears to me this is as "simple" as marking
catch block parameters as "uninteresting" in
`AddressSanitizer::isInterestingAlloca`. My manual tests seem to confirm
this.

I believe this is strictly better than today's status quo, where the
runtime generates false positives. Although we're now explicitly
choosing to instrument less, the benefit is that now more programs can
run with ASan without _funky_ macros that disable ASan on exception
blocks.

**This PR:** implements the mitigation above, and creates a simple new
test for it.

_Thanks!_

---------

Co-authored-by: Antonio Frighetto <[email protected]>
jrbyrnes pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 26, 2025
…am (llvm#167724)

This got exposed by `09262656f32ab3f2e1d82e5342ba37eecac52522`.

The underlying stream of `m_os` is referenced by the `TextDiagnostic`
member of `TextDiagnosticPrinter`. It got turned into a
`llvm::formatted_raw_ostream` in the commit above. When
`~TextDiagnosticPrinter` (and thus `~TextDiagnostic`) is invoked, we now
call `~formatted_raw_ostream`, which tries to access the underlying
stream. But `m_os` was already deleted because it is earlier in the
order of destruction in `TextDiagnosticPrinter`. Move the `m_os` member
before the `TextDiagnosticPrinter` to avoid a use-after-free.

Drive-by:
* Also move the `m_output` member which the `m_os` holds a reference to.
The fact it's a reference indicates the expectation is most likely that
the string outlives the stream.

The ASAN macOS bot is currently failing with this:
```
08:15:39  =================================================================
08:15:39  ==61103==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x60600012cf40 at pc 0x00012140d304 bp 0x00016eecc850 sp 0x00016eecc848
08:15:39  READ of size 8 at 0x60600012cf40 thread T0
08:15:39      #0 0x00012140d300 in llvm::formatted_raw_ostream::releaseStream() FormattedStream.h:205
08:15:39      #1 0x00012140d3a4 in llvm::formatted_raw_ostream::~formatted_raw_ostream() FormattedStream.h:145
08:15:39      #2 0x00012604abf8 in clang::TextDiagnostic::~TextDiagnostic() TextDiagnostic.cpp:721
08:15:39      #3 0x00012605dc80 in clang::TextDiagnosticPrinter::~TextDiagnosticPrinter() TextDiagnosticPrinter.cpp:30
08:15:39      #4 0x00012605dd5c in clang::TextDiagnosticPrinter::~TextDiagnosticPrinter() TextDiagnosticPrinter.cpp:27
08:15:39      #5 0x0001231fb210 in (anonymous namespace)::StoringDiagnosticConsumer::~StoringDiagnosticConsumer() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:47
08:15:39      #6 0x0001231fb3bc in (anonymous namespace)::StoringDiagnosticConsumer::~StoringDiagnosticConsumer() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:47
08:15:39      #7 0x000129aa9d70 in clang::DiagnosticsEngine::~DiagnosticsEngine() Diagnostic.cpp:91
08:15:39      #8 0x0001230436b8 in llvm::RefCountedBase<clang::DiagnosticsEngine>::Release() const IntrusiveRefCntPtr.h:103
08:15:39      ROCm#9 0x0001231fe6c8 in (anonymous namespace)::ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl::~ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:93
08:15:39      ROCm#10 0x0001231fe858 in (anonymous namespace)::ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl::~ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:93
...
08:15:39
08:15:39  0x60600012cf40 is located 32 bytes inside of 56-byte region [0x60600012cf20,0x60600012cf58)
08:15:39  freed by thread T0 here:
08:15:39      #0 0x0001018abb88 in _ZdlPv+0x74 (libclang_rt.asan_osx_dynamic.dylib:arm64e+0x4bb88)
08:15:39      #1 0x0001231fb1c0 in (anonymous namespace)::StoringDiagnosticConsumer::~StoringDiagnosticConsumer() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:47
08:15:39      #2 0x0001231fb3bc in (anonymous namespace)::StoringDiagnosticConsumer::~StoringDiagnosticConsumer() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:47
08:15:39      #3 0x000129aa9d70 in clang::DiagnosticsEngine::~DiagnosticsEngine() Diagnostic.cpp:91
08:15:39      #4 0x0001230436b8 in llvm::RefCountedBase<clang::DiagnosticsEngine>::Release() const IntrusiveRefCntPtr.h:103
08:15:39      #5 0x0001231fe6c8 in (anonymous namespace)::ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl::~ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:93
08:15:39      #6 0x0001231fe858 in (anonymous namespace)::ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl::~ClangModulesDeclVendorImpl() ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:93
...
08:15:39
08:15:39  previously allocated by thread T0 here:
08:15:39      #0 0x0001018ab760 in _Znwm+0x74 (libclang_rt.asan_osx_dynamic.dylib:arm64e+0x4b760)
08:15:39      #1 0x0001231f8dec in lldb_private::ClangModulesDeclVendor::Create(lldb_private::Target&) ClangModulesDeclVendor.cpp:732
08:15:39      #2 0x00012320af58 in lldb_private::ClangPersistentVariables::GetClangModulesDeclVendor() ClangPersistentVariables.cpp:124
08:15:39      #3 0x0001232111f0 in lldb_private::ClangUserExpression::PrepareForParsing(lldb_private::DiagnosticManager&, lldb_private::ExecutionContext&, bool) ClangUserExpression.cpp:536
08:15:39      #4 0x000123213790 in lldb_private::ClangUserExpression::Parse(lldb_private::DiagnosticManager&, lldb_private::ExecutionContext&, lldb_private::ExecutionPolicy, bool, bool) ClangUserExpression.cpp:647
08:15:39      #5 0x00012032b258 in lldb_private::UserExpression::Evaluate(lldb_private::ExecutionContext&, lldb_private::EvaluateExpressionOptions const&, llvm::StringRef, llvm::StringRef, std::__1::shared_ptr<lldb_private::ValueObject>&, std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char>>*, lldb_private::ValueObject*) UserExpression.cpp:280
08:15:39      #6 0x000120724010 in lldb_private::Target::EvaluateExpression(llvm::StringRef, lldb_private::ExecutionContextScope*, std::__1::shared_ptr<lldb_private::ValueObject>&, lldb_private::EvaluateExpressionOptions const&, std::__1::basic_string<char, std::__1::char_traits<char>, std::__1::allocator<char>>*, lldb_private::ValueObject*) Target.cpp:2905
08:15:39      #7 0x00011fc7bde0 in lldb::SBTarget::EvaluateExpression(char const*, lldb::SBExpressionOptions const&) SBTarget.cpp:2305
08:15:39  ==61103==ABORTING
...
```
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