Implement infrastructure that allows enabling address sanitizer
for docker containers. Enable address sanitizer for SWSS container.
- Why I did it
To add a possibility to compile SONiC applications with address sanitizer (ASAN).
ASAN is a memory error detector for C/C++. It finds:
1. Use after free (dangling pointer dereference)
2. Heap buffer overflow
3. Stack buffer overflow
4. Global buffer overflow
5. Use after return
6. Use after the scope
7. Initialization order bugs
8. Memory leaks
- How I did it
By adding new ENABLE_ASAN configuration option.
- How to verify it
By default ASAN is disabled and the SONiC image is not affected.
When ASAN is enabled it inspects all allocation, deallocation, and memory usage that the application does in run time. To verify whether the application has memory errors tests that trigger memory usage of the application should be run. Ideally, the whole regression tests should be run. Memory leaks reports will be placed in /var/log/asan/ directory of SONiC host OS.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Ivantsiv <oivantsiv@nvidia.com>
- Create a script in the orchagent docker container which listens for these encapsulated packets which are trapped to CPU (indicating that they cannot be routed/no neighbor info exists for the inner packet). When such a packet is received, the script will issue a ping command to the packet's inner destination IP to start the neighbor learning process.
- This script is also resilient to portchannel status changes (i.e. interface going up or down). An interface going down does not affect traffic sniffing on interfaces which are still up. When an interface comes back up, we restart the sniffer to start capturing traffic on that interface again.
