diff --git a/build_tools/cflags.xml b/build_tools/cflags.xml
index f05f42869f..c4f9458ec6 100644
--- a/build_tools/cflags.xml
+++ b/build_tools/cflags.xml
@@ -78,11 +78,9 @@
 			<support_level>extended</support_level>
 		</member>
 		<member name="MALLOC_DEBUG" displayname="Keep Track of Memory Allocations">
-			<conflict>DEBUG_CHAOS</conflict>
 			<support_level>core</support_level>
 		</member>
 		<member name="DEBUG_CHAOS" displayname="Randomly FAIL memory allocations or other operations">
-			<conflict>MALLOC_DEBUG</conflict>
 			<support_level>core</support_level>
 		</member>
 		<member name="ADDRESS_SANITIZER" displayname="Address Sanitizer">
diff --git a/main/astmm.c b/main/astmm.c
index accd2ffcf7..3a07f3996d 100644
--- a/main/astmm.c
+++ b/main/astmm.c
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@ static void *__ast_alloc_region(size_t size, const enum func_type which, const c
 	unsigned int *fence;
 	int hash;
 
+	DEBUG_CHAOS_RETURN(DEBUG_CHAOS_ALLOC_CHANCE, NULL);
+
 	if (!(reg = malloc(size + sizeof(*reg) + sizeof(*fence)))) {
 		astmm_log("Memory Allocation Failure - '%d' bytes at %s %s() line %d\n",
 			(int) size, file, func, lineno);
@@ -653,7 +655,6 @@ int __ast_vasprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, va_list ap, const char *file,
 	size = vsnprintf(&s, 1, fmt, ap2);
 	va_end(ap2);
 	if (!(*strp = __ast_alloc_region(size + 1, FUNC_VASPRINTF, file, lineno, func, 0))) {
-		va_end(ap);
 		return -1;
 	}
 	vsnprintf(*strp, size + 1, fmt, ap);
diff --git a/utils/.gitignore b/utils/.gitignore
index dbdc6b6d21..7840265e5e 100644
--- a/utils/.gitignore
+++ b/utils/.gitignore
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ aelparse
 aelparse.c
 ast_expr2.c
 ast_expr2f.c
+astmm.c
 astman
 astcanary
 astdb2bdb