gdb/nat/linux: Fix attaching to process when it has zombie threads

When GDB attaches to a multi-threaded process, it calls
linux_proc_attach_tgid_threads () to go through all threads found in
/proc/PID/task/ and call attach_proc_task_lwp_callback () on each of
them.  If it does that twice without the callback reporting that a new
thread was found, then it considers that all inferior threads have been
found and returns.

The problem is that the callback considers any thread that it hasn't
attached to yet as new.  This causes problems if the process has one or
more zombie threads, because GDB can't attach to it and the loop will
always "find" a new thread (the zombie one), and get stuck in an
infinite loop.

This is easy to trigger (at least on aarch64-linux and powerpc64le-linux)
with the gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp testcase, because
its test program constantly creates and finishes joinable threads so the
chance of having zombie threads is high.

This problem causes the following failures:

FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: attach (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: no new threads (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: set breakpoint always-inserted on (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: break break_fn (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: break at break_fn: 1 (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: break at break_fn: 2 (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: break at break_fn: 3 (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: reset timer in the inferior (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: print seconds_left (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: detach (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: set breakpoint always-inserted off (timeout)
FAIL: gdb.threads/attach-many-short-lived-threads.exp: iter 8: delete all breakpoints, watchpoints, tracepoints, and catchpoints in delete_breakpoints (timeout)
ERROR: breakpoints not deleted

The iteration number is random, and all tests in the subsequent iterations
fail too, because GDB is stuck in the attach command at the beginning of
the iteration.

The solution is to make linux_proc_attach_tgid_threads () remember when it
has already processed a given LWP and skip it in the subsequent iterations.

PR testsuite/31312
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31312

Reviewed-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
Approved-By: Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/nat/linux-procfs.c b/gdb/nat/linux-procfs.c
index 081a82b..5efc86c 100644
--- a/gdb/nat/linux-procfs.c
+++ b/gdb/nat/linux-procfs.c
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 #include "gdbsupport/filestuff.h"
 #include <dirent.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <unordered_set>
+#include <utility>
 
 /* Return the TGID of LWPID from /proc/pid/status.  Returns -1 if not
    found.  */
@@ -272,6 +274,29 @@ linux_proc_get_stat_field (ptid_t ptid, int field)
     return content->substr (pos, end_pos - pos);
 }
 
+/* Get the start time of thread PTID.  */
+
+static std::optional<ULONGEST>
+linux_proc_get_starttime (ptid_t ptid)
+{
+  std::optional<std::string> field
+    = linux_proc_get_stat_field (ptid, LINUX_PROC_STAT_STARTTIME);
+
+  if (!field.has_value ())
+    return {};
+
+  errno = 0;
+  const char *trailer;
+  ULONGEST starttime = strtoulst (field->c_str (), &trailer, 10);
+  if (starttime == ULONGEST_MAX && errno == ERANGE)
+    return {};
+  else if (*trailer != '\0')
+    /* There were unexpected characters.  */
+    return {};
+
+  return starttime;
+}
+
 /* See linux-procfs.h.  */
 
 const char *
@@ -333,6 +358,21 @@ linux_proc_attach_tgid_threads (pid_t pid,
       return;
     }
 
+  /* Callable object to hash elements in visited_lpws.  */
+  struct pair_hash
+  {
+    std::size_t operator() (const std::pair<unsigned long, ULONGEST> &v) const
+    {
+      return (std::hash<unsigned long>() (v.first)
+	      ^ std::hash<ULONGEST>() (v.second));
+    }
+  };
+
+  /* Keeps track of the LWPs we have already visited in /proc,
+     identified by their PID and starttime to detect PID reuse.  */
+  std::unordered_set<std::pair<unsigned long, ULONGEST>,
+		     pair_hash> visited_lwps;
+
   /* Scan the task list for existing threads.  While we go through the
      threads, new threads may be spawned.  Cycle through the list of
      threads until we have done two iterations without finding new
@@ -351,6 +391,19 @@ linux_proc_attach_tgid_threads (pid_t pid,
 	  if (lwp != 0)
 	    {
 	      ptid_t ptid = ptid_t (pid, lwp);
+	      std::optional<ULONGEST> starttime
+		= linux_proc_get_starttime (ptid);
+
+	      if (starttime.has_value ())
+		{
+		  std::pair<unsigned long, ULONGEST> key (lwp, *starttime);
+
+		  /* If we already visited this LWP, skip it this time.  */
+		  if (visited_lwps.find (key) != visited_lwps.cend ())
+		    continue;
+
+		  visited_lwps.insert (key);
+		}
 
 	      if (attach_lwp (ptid))
 		new_threads_found = 1;