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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2020-05-19 18:36:24 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2020-05-19 18:37:15 +0100
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Make exec-file-mismatch compare build IDs
The patch makes GDB do exec-file-mismatch validation by comparing build IDs instead of the current method of comparing filenames. Currently, the exec-file-mismatch feature simply compares filenames to decide whether the exec file loaded in gdb and the exec file the target reports is running match. This causes false positives when remote debugging, because it'll often be the case that the paths in the host and the target won't match. And of course misses the case of the files having the same name but being actually different files (e.g., different builds). This also broke many testcases when running against gdbserver, causing tests to be skipped like (here native-extended-gdbserver): (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink-filelink warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink-filelink and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask" Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink"? (y or n) UNTESTED: gdb.base/argv0-symlink.exp: could not run to main or to fail like (here native-gdbserver): (gdb) spawn /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../../gdbserver/gdbserver --once localhost:2346 /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/te stsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x Process /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x created; pid = 20040 Listening on port 2346 target remote localhost:2346 Remote debugging using localhost:2346 warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/temp/19968/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask" Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.btrace/buffer-size/skip_btrace_tests-19968.x"? (y or n) Quit (gdb) UNSUPPORTED: gdb.btrace/buffer-size.exp: target does not support record-btrace The former case is about GDB not realizing the two files are the same, because one of the them is a symlink to the other. The latter case is about GDB realizing that one file is a copy of the other. Over the years, the toolchain has settled on build ID matching being the canonical method to match core dumps to executables, and executables with no debug info to their debug info. This patch makes us use build IDs to match the running image of a binary with its version loaded in gdb, which may or may not have debug info. This is very much like the core dump/executable matching. The change to gdb_bfd_open is necessary to get rid of the "transfers from remote targets can be slow" warning when we open the remote file to read its build ID: (gdb) r Starting program: /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/break/break Reading /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink from remote target... warning: File transfers from remote targets can be slow. Use "set sysroot" to access files locally instead. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ warning: Mismatch between current exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/break/break and automatically determined exec-file /home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink exec-file-mismatch handling is currently "ask" Load new symbol table from "/home/pedro/gdb/binutils-gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/argv0-symlink/argv0-symlink"? (y or n) While trying this out, I was worried that bfd would read a lot of stuff from the binary in order to extract the build ID, making it potentially slow, but turns out we don't read all that much. Maybe a couple hundred bytes, and most of it seemingly is the read-ahead cache. So I'm not worried about that. Otherwise I'd consider whether a new qXfer:buildid:read would be better. But I'm happy that we seemingly don't need to worry about it. gdb/ChangeLog: 2020-05-19 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * NEWS (set exec-file-mismatch): Adjust entry. * exec.c: Include "build-id.h". (validate_exec_file): Try to match build IDs instead of filenames. * gdb_bfd.c (struct gdb_bfd_open_closure): New. (gdb_bfd_iovec_fileio_open): Adjust to use gdb_bfd_open_closure and pass down 'warn_if_slow'. (gdb_bfd_open): Add 'warn_if_slow' parameter. Use gdb_bfd_open_closure to pass it down. * gdb_bfd.h (gdb_bfd_open): Add 'warn_if_slow' parameter. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: 2020-05-19 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * gdb.texinfo (Attach): Update exec-file-mismatch description to mention build IDs. (Separate Debug Files): Add "build id" anchor.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/gdb_bfd.h')
-rw-r--r--gdb/gdb_bfd.h6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/gdb_bfd.h b/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
index 532520e..a941b79 100644
--- a/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
+++ b/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
@@ -78,10 +78,12 @@ typedef gdb::ref_ptr<struct bfd, gdb_bfd_ref_policy> gdb_bfd_ref_ptr;
If the BFD was not accessed using target fileio operations then the
filename associated with the BFD and accessible with
bfd_get_filename will not be exactly NAME but rather NAME with
- TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX stripped. */
+ TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX stripped. If WARN_IF_SLOW is true, print a
+ warning message if the file is being accessed over a link that may
+ be slow. */
gdb_bfd_ref_ptr gdb_bfd_open (const char *name, const char *target,
- int fd = -1);
+ int fd = -1, bool warn_if_slow = true);
/* Mark the CHILD BFD as being a member of PARENT. Also, increment
the reference count of CHILD. Calling this function ensures that