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authorJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2012-07-07 12:13:57 +0000
committerJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2012-07-07 12:13:57 +0000
commitaa7c744796a067e1533b21e7d58aa30e6f3d12c8 (patch)
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* common/linux-ptrace.c: Include gdb_assert.h. <__i386__> (linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx_instr): New declaration. <__i386__>: Include sys/reg.h, sys/mman.h, signal.h, sys/wait.h and stdint.h. (linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx, linux_ptrace_init_warnings): New functions. * common/linux-ptrace.h (linux_ptrace_init_warnings): New declarations. * linux-nat.c (linux_child_post_attach) (linux_child_post_startup_inferior): Call linux_ptrace_init_warnings. gdb/gdbserver/ * gdbserver/linux-low.c (initialize_low): Call linux_ptrace_init_warnings.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/common')
-rw-r--r--gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c124
-rw-r--r--gdb/common/linux-ptrace.h1
2 files changed, 125 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
index 600dcb9..fdec5d6 100644
--- a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
+++ b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
#include "linux-ptrace.h"
#include "linux-procfs.h"
#include "buffer.h"
+#include "gdb_assert.h"
/* Find all possible reasons we could fail to attach PID and append these
newline terminated reason strings to initialized BUFFER. '\0' termination
@@ -47,3 +48,126 @@ linux_ptrace_attach_warnings (pid_t pid, struct buffer *buffer)
"- the process has already terminated\n"),
(int) pid);
}
+
+#ifdef __i386__
+
+/* Address of the 'ret' instruction in asm code block below. */
+extern void (linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx_instr) (void);
+
+#include <sys/reg.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+#endif /* __i386__ */
+
+/* Test broken off-trunk Linux kernel patchset for NX support on i386. It was
+ removed in Fedora kernel 88fa1f0332d188795ed73d7ac2b1564e11a0b4cd. */
+
+static void
+linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx (void)
+{
+#ifdef __i386__
+ pid_t child, got_pid;
+ gdb_byte *return_address, *pc;
+ long l;
+ int status;
+
+ return_address = mmap (NULL, 2, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
+ if (return_address == MAP_FAILED)
+ {
+ warning (_("linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx: Cannot mmap: %s"),
+ strerror (errno));
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Put there 'int3'. */
+ *return_address = 0xcc;
+
+ child = fork ();
+ switch (child)
+ {
+ case -1:
+ warning (_("linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx: Cannot fork: %s"),
+ strerror (errno));
+ return;
+
+ case 0:
+ l = ptrace (PTRACE_TRACEME, 0, NULL, NULL);
+ if (l != 0)
+ warning (_("linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx: Cannot PTRACE_TRACEME: %s"),
+ strerror (errno));
+ else
+ {
+ asm volatile ("pushl %0;"
+ ".globl linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx_instr;"
+ "linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx_instr:"
+ "ret"
+ : : "r" (return_address) : "%esp", "memory");
+ gdb_assert_not_reached ("asm block did not terminate");
+ }
+
+ _exit (1);
+ }
+
+ got_pid = waitpid (child, &status, 0);
+ gdb_assert (got_pid == child);
+ gdb_assert (WIFSTOPPED (status));
+
+ /* We may get SIGSEGV due to missing PROT_EXEC of the return_address. */
+ gdb_assert (WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGTRAP || WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSEGV);
+
+ errno = 0;
+ l = ptrace (PTRACE_PEEKUSER, child, (void *) (uintptr_t) (EIP * 4), NULL);
+ gdb_assert (errno == 0);
+ pc = (void *) (uintptr_t) l;
+
+ if (ptrace (PTRACE_KILL, child, NULL, NULL) != 0)
+ warning (_("linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx: Cannot PTRACE_KILL: %s"),
+ strerror (errno));
+ else
+ {
+ int kill_status;
+
+ got_pid = waitpid (child, &kill_status, 0);
+ gdb_assert (got_pid == child);
+ gdb_assert (WIFSIGNALED (kill_status));
+ }
+
+ /* + 1 is there as x86* stops after the 'int3' instruction. */
+ if (WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGTRAP && pc == return_address + 1)
+ {
+ /* PASS */
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* We may get SIGSEGV due to missing PROT_EXEC of the RETURN_ADDRESS page. */
+ if (WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSEGV && pc == return_address)
+ {
+ /* PASS */
+ return;
+ }
+
+ gdb_assert ((void (*) (void)) pc == &linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx_instr);
+
+ warning (_("Cannot call inferior functions, you have broken "
+ "Linux kernel i386 NX (non-executable pages) support!"));
+#endif /* __i386__ */
+}
+
+/* Display possible problems on this system. Display them only once per GDB
+ execution. */
+
+void
+linux_ptrace_init_warnings (void)
+{
+ static int warned = 0;
+
+ if (warned)
+ return;
+ warned = 1;
+
+ linux_ptrace_test_ret_to_nx ();
+}
diff --git a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.h b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.h
index 6315b13..96ad33d 100644
--- a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.h
+++ b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.h
@@ -68,5 +68,6 @@ struct buffer;
#endif
extern void linux_ptrace_attach_warnings (pid_t pid, struct buffer *buffer);
+extern void linux_ptrace_init_warnings (void);
#endif /* COMMON_LINUX_PTRACE_H */