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authorJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2017-06-01 09:40:46 -0700
committerJohn Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>2017-06-01 09:40:46 -0700
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Use the ELF class to determine the word size for FreeBSD core notes.
FreeBSD ELF cores contain data structures with that have two different layouts: one for ILP32 platforms and a second for LP64 platforms. Previously, the code used 'bits_per_word' from 'arch_info', but this field is not a reliable indicator of the format for FreeBSD MIPS cores in particular. I had originally posted this patch back in November because process cores for FreeBSD MIPS contained an e_flags value of 0 in the header which resulted in a bfd_arch which always had 'bits_per_word' set to 32. This permitted reading o32 cores, but not n64 cores. The feedback I received then was to try to change n64 cores to use a different default bfd_arch that had a 64-bit 'bits_per_word' when e_flags was zero. I submitted a patch to that effect but it was never approved. Instead, I changed FreeBSD's kernel and gcore commands to preserve the e_flags field from an executable when generating process cores. With a proper e_flags field in process cores, n64 cores now use a 64-bit bfd_arch and now work fine. However, the change to include e_flags in the process cores had the unintended side effect of breaking handling of o32 process cores. Specifically, FreeBSD MIPS builds o32 with a default MIPS architecture of 'mips3', thus FreeBSD process cores with a non-zero e_flags match the 'mips3' bfd_arch which has 64 'bits_per_word'. From this, it seems that 'bits_per_word' for FreeBSD MIPS is not likely to ever be completely correct. However, FreeBSD core dumps do reliably set the ELF class to ELFCLASS32 for cores using ILP32 and ELFCLASS64 for cores using LP64. As such, I think my original patch of using the ELF class instead of 'bits_per_word' is probably the simplest and most reliable approach for detecting the note structure layout. bfd/ChangeLog: * elf.c (elfcore_grok_freebsd_psinfo): Use ELF header class to determine structure sizes. (elfcore_grok_freebsd_prstatus): Likewise.
-rw-r--r--bfd/ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--bfd/elf.c23
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/bfd/ChangeLog b/bfd/ChangeLog
index cb4afa9..8dfdc23 100644
--- a/bfd/ChangeLog
+++ b/bfd/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-05-31 John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
+
+ * elf.c (elfcore_grok_freebsd_psinfo): Use ELF header class to
+ determine structure sizes.
+ (elfcore_grok_freebsd_prstatus): Likewise.
+
2017-06-01 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
* elf64-ppc.c (struct ppc_link_hash_table): Add has_plt_localentry0.
diff --git a/bfd/elf.c b/bfd/elf.c
index 863bd61..34d39c5 100644
--- a/bfd/elf.c
+++ b/bfd/elf.c
@@ -9814,14 +9814,14 @@ elfcore_grok_freebsd_psinfo (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
{
size_t offset;
- switch (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word)
+ switch (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS])
{
- case 32:
+ case ELFCLASS32:
if (note->descsz < 108)
return FALSE;
break;
- case 64:
+ case ELFCLASS64:
if (note->descsz < 120)
return FALSE;
break;
@@ -9836,7 +9836,7 @@ elfcore_grok_freebsd_psinfo (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
offset = 4;
/* Skip over pr_psinfosz. */
- if (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word == 32)
+ if (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32)
offset += 4;
else
{
@@ -9879,13 +9879,13 @@ elfcore_grok_freebsd_prstatus (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
offset = 4;
/* Skip over pr_statussz. */
- switch (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word)
+ switch (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS])
{
- case 32:
+ case ELFCLASS32:
offset += 4;
break;
- case 64:
+ case ELFCLASS64:
offset += 4; /* Padding before pr_statussz. */
offset += 8;
break;
@@ -9895,13 +9895,16 @@ elfcore_grok_freebsd_prstatus (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
}
/* Extract size of pr_reg from pr_gregsetsz. */
- if (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word == 32)
+ if (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32)
size = bfd_h_get_32 (abfd, (bfd_byte *) note->descdata + offset);
else
size = bfd_h_get_64 (abfd, (bfd_byte *) note->descdata + offset);
/* Skip over pr_gregsetsz and pr_fpregsetsz. */
- offset += (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word / 8) * 2;
+ if (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS32)
+ offset += 4 * 2;
+ else
+ offset += 8 * 2;
/* Skip over pr_osreldate. */
offset += 4;
@@ -9918,7 +9921,7 @@ elfcore_grok_freebsd_prstatus (bfd *abfd, Elf_Internal_Note *note)
offset += 4;
/* Padding before pr_reg. */
- if (abfd->arch_info->bits_per_word == 64)
+ if (elf_elfheader (abfd)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64)
offset += 4;
/* Make a ".reg/999" section and a ".reg" section. */