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authorNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-07-11 16:21:26 +0100
committerNick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>2019-10-03 17:04:55 +0100
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libctf: add the object index and function index sections
No code handles these yet, but our latest GCC patches are generating them, so we have to be ready for them or erroneously conclude that we have file corruption. (This simultaneously fixes a longstanding bug, concealed because nothing was generating anything in the object or function info sections, where the end of the section was being tested against the wrong thing: it would have walked over the entire contents of the variable section and treated them as part of the function info section. This had to change now anyway because the new sections have landed in between.) include/ * ctf.h: Add object index and function index sections. Describe them. Improve the description of the variable section and clarify the constraints on backward-pointing type nodes. (ctf_header): Add cth_objtidxoff, cth_funcidxoff. libctf/ * ctf-open.c (init_symtab): Check for overflow against the right section. (upgrade_header): Set cth_objtidxoff, cth_funcidxoff to zero-length. (upgrade_types_v1): Note that these sections are not checked. (flip_header): Endian-swap the header fields. (flip_ctf): Endian-swap the sections. (flip_objts): Update comment. (ctf_bufopen): Check header offsets and alignment for validity.
Diffstat (limited to 'include/ctf.h')
-rw-r--r--include/ctf.h32
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/ctf.h b/include/ctf.h
index 7e00005..f371cd7 100644
--- a/include/ctf.h
+++ b/include/ctf.h
@@ -52,10 +52,15 @@ extern "C"
The CTF file or section itself has the following structure:
- +--------+--------+---------+----------+----------+-------+--------+
- | file | type | data | function | variable | data | string |
- | header | labels | objects | info | info | types | table |
- +--------+--------+---------+----------+----------+-------+--------+
+ +--------+--------+---------+----------+--------+----------+...
+ | file | type | data | function | object | function |...
+ | header | labels | objects | info | index | index |...
+ +--------+--------+---------+----------+--------+----------+...
+
+ ...+----------+-------+--------+
+ ...| variable | data | string |
+ ...| info | types | table |
+ +----------+-------+--------+
The file header stores a magic number and version information, encoding
flags, and the byte offset of each of the sections relative to the end of the
@@ -74,14 +79,27 @@ extern "C"
For each data object, the type ID (a small integer) is recorded. For each
function, the type ID of the return type and argument types is recorded.
+ For situations in which the order of the symbols in the symtab is not known,
+ a pair of optional indexes follow the data object and function info sections:
+ each of these is an array of strtab indexes, mapped 1:1 to the corresponding
+ data object / function info section, giving each entry in those sections a
+ name so that the linker can correlate them with final symtab entries and
+ reorder them accordingly (dropping the indexes in the process).
+
Variable records (as distinct from data objects) provide a modicum of support
for non-ELF systems, mapping a variable name to a CTF type ID. The variable
- names are sorted into ASCIIbetical order, permitting binary searching.
+ names are sorted into ASCIIbetical order, permitting binary searching. We do
+ not define how the consumer maps these variable names to addresses or
+ anything else, or indeed what these names represent: they might be names
+ looked up at runtime via dlsym() or names extracted at runtime by a debugger
+ or anything else the consumer likes.
The data types section is a list of variable size records that represent each
type, in order by their ID. The types themselves form a directed graph,
where each node may contain one or more outgoing edges to other type nodes,
- denoted by their ID.
+ denoted by their ID. Most type nodes are standalone or point backwards to
+ earlier nodes, but this is not required: nodes can point to later nodes,
+ particularly structure and union members.
Strings are recorded as a string table ID (0 or 1) and a byte offset into the
string table. String table 0 is the internal CTF string table. String table
@@ -149,6 +167,8 @@ typedef struct ctf_header
uint32_t cth_lbloff; /* Offset of label section. */
uint32_t cth_objtoff; /* Offset of object section. */
uint32_t cth_funcoff; /* Offset of function section. */
+ uint32_t cth_objtidxoff; /* Offset of object index section. */
+ uint32_t cth_funcidxoff; /* Offset of function index section. */
uint32_t cth_varoff; /* Offset of variable section. */
uint32_t cth_typeoff; /* Offset of type section. */
uint32_t cth_stroff; /* Offset of string section. */