Delay checking whether /proc/pid/mem is writable (PR gdb/29907)

As of 1bcb0708f229 ("gdb/linux-nat: Check whether /proc/pid/mem is
writable"), GDB checks if /proc/pid/mem is writable.  This is done
early at GDB startup, in order to get a consistent warning, instead of
a warning that depends on whenever GDB writes to inferior memory.

PR gdb/29907 points out that some build systems (like QEMU's,
apparently) may call 'gdb --version' to check GDB's presence & its
version on the system, and that Gentoo's build process has sandboxing
which blocks the /proc/pid/mem access and thus GDB warns, which
results in build fails.

To help with that, this patch delays the /proc/pid/mem check until we
start or attach to an inferior.  Ends up potentially emiting a warning
close where we already emit other ptrace- and /proc- related warnings,
which just Feels Right.

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29907
Change-Id: I5537653ecfbbe76a04ab035e40e59d09b4980763

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/linux-nat.c b/gdb/linux-nat.c
index 1d207c4..a244e03 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-nat.c
@@ -372,6 +372,7 @@ linux_init_ptrace_procfs (pid_t pid, int attached)
   linux_enable_event_reporting (pid, options);
   linux_ptrace_init_warnings ();
   linux_proc_init_warnings ();
+  proc_mem_file_is_writable ();
 }
 
 linux_nat_target::~linux_nat_target ()
@@ -3955,7 +3956,11 @@ linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial (int pid, gdb_byte *readbuf,
    return true if so.  It wasn't writable before Linux 2.6.39, but
    there's no way to know whether the feature was backported to older
    kernels.  So we check to see if it works.  The result is cached,
-   and this is garanteed to be called once early at startup.  */
+   and this is garanteed to be called once early during inferior
+   startup, so that any warning is printed out consistently between
+   GDB invocations.  Note we don't call it during GDB startup instead
+   though, because then we might warn with e.g. just "gdb --version"
+   on sandboxed systems.  See PR gdb/29907.  */
 
 static bool
 proc_mem_file_is_writable ()
@@ -4490,8 +4495,6 @@ Enables printf debugging output."),
   sigemptyset (&blocked_mask);
 
   lwp_lwpid_htab_create ();
-
-  proc_mem_file_is_writable ();
 }