[Bug]: LSAN reports leaks in ONNX frontend

[vient]

OpenVINO Version

2024.0.0

Operating System

Ubuntu 20.04 (LTS)

Device used for inference

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Framework

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Issue description

ONNX frontend uses protobuf library which allocates some memory on startup and expects user to call google::protobuf::ShutdownProtobufLibrary() on exit. OpenVINO does it here https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/blob/releases/2024/0/src/frontends/common/shutdown_protobuf/shutdown_protobuf.cpp#L27-L30 but, at least in my builds, this function does not get called, it is not even present in final libopenvino_onnx_frontend.so.2024.0.0.

I've checked that it is there in libopenvino_protobuf_shutdown.a, and the issue seems to be that __attribute__((destructor)) does nothing, library_unload is not actually registered as destructor. Adding -Wl,--whole-archive to libopenvino_protobuf_shutdown.a linkage does not help - library_unload is present in final .so after this but is not called anywhere.

I've fixed this for myself by replacing this function with

struct ProtobufsPleaseShutdown {
    ~ProtobufsPleaseShutdown() {
        google::protobuf::ShutdownProtobufLibrary();
    }
} protobuf_killer;

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[vient]

Correction: I also changed openvino::protobuf_shutdown to "$<LINK_LIBRARY:WHOLE_ARCHIVE,openvino::protobuf_shutdown>" here https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/openvino/blob/releases/2024/0/cmake/developer_package/frontends/frontends.cmake#L204. Without it linker throws away protobuf_killer object. Maybe it is enough to declare it as extern "C" or explicitly set visibility instead, did not try it.

LINK_LIBRARY:WHOLE_ARCHIVE is pretty fresh, don't know what cmake version you target. It it is too new, it is possible to create a proxy library instead which has explicit -Wl,--whole-archive in its link options.

Note that whole-archive does not help by itself, I still needed to replace destructor function with global object.

My toolchain is LLVM 18, GCC 14 (stdlib provider), cmake 3.29, ninja 1.11 on Ubuntu 20.04