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Make stack depth check work with asan's use-after-return

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> — 2026-05-27T13:23:13Z

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