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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2014-10-01 23:31:55 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2014-10-01 23:31:55 +0100
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Really fail inserting software breakpoints on read-only regions
Currently, with "set breakpoint auto-hw off", we'll still try to insert a software breakpoint at addresses covered by supposedly read-only or inacessible regions: (top-gdb) mem 0x443000 0x450000 ro (top-gdb) set mem inaccessible-by-default off (top-gdb) disassemble Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x0000000000443956 <+34>: movq $0x0,0x10(%rax) => 0x000000000044395e <+42>: movq $0x0,0x18(%rax) 0x0000000000443966 <+50>: mov -0x24(%rbp),%eax 0x0000000000443969 <+53>: mov %eax,-0x20(%rbp) End of assembler dump. (top-gdb) b *0x0000000000443969 Breakpoint 5 at 0x443969: file ../../src/gdb/gdb.c, line 29. (top-gdb) c Continuing. warning: cannot set software breakpoint at readonly address 0x443969 Breakpoint 5, 0x0000000000443969 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffd918) at ../../src/gdb/gdb.c:29 29 args.argc = argc; (top-gdb) We warn, saying that the insertion can't be done, but then proceed attempting the insertion anyway, and in case of manually added regions, the insert actually succeeds. This is a regression; GDB used to fail inserting the breakpoint. More below. I stumbled on this as I wrote a test that manually sets up a read-only memory region with the "mem" command, in order to test GDB's behavior with breakpoints set on read-only regions, even when the real memory the breakpoints are set at isn't really read-only. I wanted that in order to add a test that exercises software single-stepping through read-only regions. Note that the memory regions that target_memory_map returns aren't like e.g., what would expect to see in /proc/PID/maps on Linux. Instead, they're the physical memory map from the _debuggers_ perspective. E.g., a read-only region would be real ROM or flash memory, while a read-only+execute mapping in /proc/PID/maps is still read-write to the debugger (otherwise the debugger wouldn't be able to set software breakpoints in the code segment). If one tries to manually write to memory that falls within a memory region that is known to be read-only, with e.g., "p foo = 1", then we hit a check in memory_xfer_partial_1 before the write mananges to make it to the target side. But writing a software/memory breakpoint nowadays goes through target_write_raw_memory, and unlike when writing memory with TARGET_OBJECT_MEMORY, nothing on the TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY path checks whether we're trying to write to a read-only region. At the time "breakpoint auto-hw" was added, we didn't have the TARGET_OBJECT_MEMORY vs TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY target object distinction yet, and the code path in memory_xfer_partial that blocks writes to read-only memory was hit for memory breakpoints too. With GDB 6.8 we had: warning: cannot set software breakpoint at readonly address 0000000000443943 Warning: Cannot insert breakpoint 1. Error accessing memory address 0x443943: Input/output error. So I started out by fixing this by adding the memory region validation to TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY too. But later, when testing against GDBserver, I realized that that would only block software/memory breakpoints GDB itself inserts with gdb/mem-break.c. If a target has a to_insert_breakpoint method, the insertion request will still pass through to the target. So I ended up converting the "cannot set breakpoint" warning in breakpoint.c to a real error return, thus blocking the insertion sooner. With that, we'll end up no longer needing the TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY changes once software single-step breakpoints are converted to real breakpoints. We need them today as software single-step breakpoints bypass insert_bp_location. But, it'll be best to leave that in as safeguard anyway, for other direct uses of TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY. Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20, native and gdbserver. gdb/ 2014-10-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * breakpoint.c (insert_bp_location): Error out if inserting a software breakpoint at a read-only address. * target.c (memory_xfer_check_region): New function, factored out from ... (memory_xfer_partial_1): ... this. Make the 'reg_len' local a ULONGEST. (target_xfer_partial) <TARGET_OBJECT_RAW_MEMORY>: Check the access against the memory region attributes. gdb/testsuite/ 2014-10-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.c: New file. * gdb.base/breakpoint-in-ro-region.exp: New file.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/breakpoint.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/breakpoint.c14
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/breakpoint.c b/gdb/breakpoint.c
index bec7f68..44f6f14 100644
--- a/gdb/breakpoint.c
+++ b/gdb/breakpoint.c
@@ -2674,10 +2674,16 @@ insert_bp_location (struct bp_location *bl,
}
}
else if (bl->loc_type == bp_loc_software_breakpoint
- && mr->attrib.mode != MEM_RW)
- warning (_("cannot set software breakpoint "
- "at readonly address %s"),
- paddress (bl->gdbarch, bl->address));
+ && mr->attrib.mode != MEM_RW)
+ {
+ fprintf_unfiltered (tmp_error_stream,
+ _("Cannot insert breakpoint %d.\n"
+ "Cannot set software breakpoint "
+ "at read-only address %s\n"),
+ bl->owner->number,
+ paddress (bl->gdbarch, bl->address));
+ return 1;
+ }
}
}