Change the default options for the official ASan build:

chrome/app/chrome_exe_main_gtk.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "build/build_config.h"
 #include "chrome/browser/first_run/upgrade_util.h"
 
 // The entry point for all invocations of Chromium, browser and renderer. On
 // windows, this does nothing but load chrome.dll and invoke its entry point in
 // order to make it easy to update the app from GoogleUpdate. We don't need
 // that extra layer with on linux.
 
 #if defined(ADDRESS_SANITIZER) && defined(GOOGLE_CHROME_BUILD)
-// Default AddressSanitizer options: limit the quarantine to 1Gb, disable the
-// strict memcmp() checking (http://crbug.com/178677 and
-// http://crbug.com/178404).
-const char *kAsanDefaultOptions = "quarantine_size=1048576 strict_memcmp=0";
+// Default AddressSanitizer options for the official build. These do not affect
+// tests or non-official Chromium builds.
+//  - disable the strict memcmp() checking (http://crbug.com/178677 and
+//    http://crbug.com/178404).
+//  - set the malloc_context_size (i.e. the size of stack traces collected by
+//    ASan for each malloc/free) to 5. These stack traces tend to accumulate
+//    very fast in applications using JIT (v8 in Chrome's case), see
+//    https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/issues/detail?id=177
+const char *kAsanDefaultOptions = "malloc_context_size=5 strict_memcmp=0";
 
 // Override the default ASan options for the Google Chrome executable.
 // __asan_default_options should not be instrumented, because it is called
 // before ASan is initialized.
 extern "C"
 __attribute__((no_address_safety_analysis))
 const char *__asan_default_options() {
   return kAsanDefaultOptions;
 }
 #endif
 
 extern "C" {
 int ChromeMain(int argc, const char** argv);
 }
 
 int main(int argc, const char** argv) {
   int return_code = ChromeMain(argc, argv);
 
 #if defined(OS_LINUX)
   // Launch a new instance if we're shutting down because we detected an
   // upgrade in the persistent mode.
   upgrade_util::RelaunchChromeBrowserWithNewCommandLineIfNeeded();
 #endif
 
   return return_code;
 }