Make stack depth check work with asan's use-after-return
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2026-05-27T13:23:13Z
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Hi, When running asan without further options against the backend, random tests fail because the stack-depth check fails. One can work around that by putting detect_stack_use_after_return=0 into ASAN_OPTIONS (at least with gcc, clang still uses a lot of stack, but i think that's a separate issue). The reason for that breakage is that with the stack-use-after-return logic, stack variables are moved to heap allocations, to allow to detect references to the memory at a later time. That breaks our stack-depth check, which is why we had to disable detect_stack_use_after_return in CI. Luckily __builtin_frame_address() works correctly, even under asan, so use that. I think we should backpatch this. I'd be worried about using __builtin_frame_address(), but we already do, for the base address of the stack. Greetings, Andres Freund