Deal with ASLR on Mac OS about address-sanitizer HOT 9 CLOSED

Does this mean that on 10.7 the only two choices are --no_pie and fork+exec? 

Exactly.

I completely forgot about another method suggested by Mark Mentovai that works 
reliably on all OS X versions. One can unset the MH_PIE bit in an already 
linked executable, using e.g. this script: 
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/build/mac/change_mach_o_flags.py
?view=markup

This method is less convenient to integrate with every build process. To do 
that we'll need to make Clang run this script after every ld invocation, which 
is in fact similar to adding the --no_pie flag.

I'm now considering the following roadmap:

1. Introduce the disable_aslr runtime flag that will tell ASan to do fork+exec. 
Set disable_aslr=0 on Snow Leopard and disable_aslr=1 on Lion by default.
2. If MH_PIE bit is set and any of the current mappings is going to intersect 
with the shadow, do the following:
 -- if disable_aslr is 0, print a warning and die;
 -- if disable_aslr is 1, fix ASLR by doing fork+exec
3. Make sure Clang doesn't set MH_PIE for executables built with 
-faddress-sanitizer.

Step 1 is mainly needed to start running Chrome on Lion without additional GYP 
hackery. We can also skip Step 2 and pass to Step 3 if we finally want to get 
rid of disable_aslr.

I've spent some time playing with ASLR on Lion and here are two conclusions:
 -- doing posix_spawn with POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC and _POSIX_SPAWN_DISABLE_ASLR is equal to exec() without fork() and should disable ASLR as well;
 -- I haven't managed to trigger any ASLR problems on Lion for the binaries built with -fpie. This is probably because ASLR is much smarter on Lion.

Attached is the patch that disables ASLR on Lion, but I'm not going to commit 
it until I notice any problems with ASLR on Lion.

As Snow Leopard will be obsolete soon, the issue becomes less (if at all) 
important.
The reliable workaround is to set DYLD_NO_PIE=1.

Do we still need to support 10.6? 
Can we close this bug? 

We still need to support 10.6 for some time, yet we don't want to fix ASLR on 
10.6.
Will reopen if we ever have problems with newer OS X versions.

Adding Project:AddressSanitizer as part of GitHub migration.