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-rw-r--r--gdb/linux-nat.c324
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/access-mem-running-thread-exit.exp14
2 files changed, 147 insertions, 191 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/linux-nat.c b/gdb/linux-nat.c
index cada889..f8f7284 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-nat.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
#include "gdbsupport/scope-exit.h"
#include "gdbsupport/gdb-sigmask.h"
#include "gdbsupport/common-debug.h"
+#include <unordered_map>
/* This comment documents high-level logic of this file.
@@ -280,7 +281,8 @@ static int lwp_status_pending_p (struct lwp_info *lp);
static void save_stop_reason (struct lwp_info *lp);
-static void maybe_close_proc_mem_file (pid_t pid);
+static void close_proc_mem_file (pid_t pid);
+static void open_proc_mem_file (ptid_t ptid);
/* LWP accessors. */
@@ -514,6 +516,8 @@ linux_nat_target::follow_fork (inferior *child_inf, ptid_t child_ptid,
&& !signal_pass_state (gdb_signal_from_host (signo)))
signo = 0;
ptrace (PTRACE_DETACH, child_pid, 0, signo);
+
+ close_proc_mem_file (child_pid);
}
}
@@ -1059,6 +1063,8 @@ linux_nat_target::create_inferior (const char *exec_file,
pass_signals ({});
inf_ptrace_target::create_inferior (exec_file, allargs, env, from_tty);
+
+ open_proc_mem_file (inferior_ptid);
}
/* Callback for linux_proc_attach_tgid_threads. Attach to PTID if not
@@ -1204,6 +1210,8 @@ linux_nat_target::attach (const char *args, int from_tty)
lp->stopped = 1;
+ open_proc_mem_file (lp->ptid);
+
/* Save the wait status to report later. */
lp->resumed = 1;
linux_nat_debug_printf ("waitpid %ld, saving status %s",
@@ -1455,7 +1463,7 @@ linux_nat_target::detach (inferior *inf, int from_tty)
detach_success (inf);
}
- maybe_close_proc_mem_file (pid);
+ close_proc_mem_file (pid);
}
/* Resume execution of the inferior process. If STEP is nonzero,
@@ -1894,6 +1902,8 @@ linux_handle_extended_wait (struct lwp_info *lp, int status)
if (event == PTRACE_EVENT_FORK || event == PTRACE_EVENT_VFORK)
{
+ open_proc_mem_file (child_ptid);
+
/* The arch-specific native code may need to know about new
forks even if those end up never mapped to an
inferior. */
@@ -1999,9 +2009,13 @@ linux_handle_extended_wait (struct lwp_info *lp, int status)
{
linux_nat_debug_printf ("Got exec event from LWP %ld", lp->ptid.lwp ());
- /* Close the /proc/<pid>/mem file if it was open for this
- inferior. */
- maybe_close_proc_mem_file (lp->ptid.pid ());
+ /* Close the previous /proc/PID/mem file for this inferior,
+ which was using the address space which is now gone.
+ Reading/writing from this file would return 0/EOF. */
+ close_proc_mem_file (lp->ptid.pid ());
+
+ /* Open a new file for the new address space. */
+ open_proc_mem_file (lp->ptid);
ourstatus->set_execd
(make_unique_xstrdup (linux_proc_pid_to_exec_file (pid)));
@@ -3566,9 +3580,7 @@ linux_nat_target::mourn_inferior ()
purge_lwp_list (pid);
- /* Close the /proc/<pid>/mem file if it was open for this
- inferior. */
- maybe_close_proc_mem_file (pid);
+ close_proc_mem_file (pid);
if (! forks_exist_p ())
/* Normal case, no other forks available. */
@@ -3765,91 +3777,134 @@ linux_nat_target::pid_to_exec_file (int pid)
return linux_proc_pid_to_exec_file (pid);
}
-/* Keep the /proc/<pid>/mem file open between memory accesses, as a
- cache to avoid constantly closing/opening the file in the common
- case of multiple memory reads/writes from/to the same inferior.
- Note we don't keep a file open per inferior to avoid keeping too
- many file descriptors open, which can run into resource limits. */
-static struct
-{
- /* The LWP this open file is for. Note that after opening the file,
- even if the thread subsequently exits, the open file is still
- usable for accessing memory. It's only when the whole process
- exits or execs that the file becomes invalid (at which point
- reads/writes return EOF). */
- ptid_t ptid;
-
- /* The file descriptor. -1 if file is not open. */
- int fd = -1;
+/* Object representing an /proc/PID/mem open file. We keep one such
+ file open per inferior.
+
+ It might be tempting to think about only ever opening one file at
+ most for all inferiors, closing/reopening the file as we access
+ memory of different inferiors, to minimize number of file
+ descriptors open, which can otherwise run into resource limits.
+ However, that does not work correctly -- if the inferior execs and
+ we haven't processed the exec event yet, and, we opened a
+ /proc/PID/mem file, we will get a mem file accessing the post-exec
+ address space, thinking we're opening it for the pre-exec address
+ space. That is dangerous as we can poke memory (e.g. clearing
+ breakpoints) in the post-exec memory by mistake, corrupting the
+ inferior. For that reason, we open the mem file as early as
+ possible, right after spawning, forking or attaching to the
+ inferior, when the inferior is stopped and thus before it has a
+ chance of execing.
+
+ Note that after opening the file, even if the thread we opened it
+ for subsequently exits, the open file is still usable for accessing
+ memory. It's only when the whole process exits or execs that the
+ file becomes invalid, at which point reads/writes return EOF. */
+
+class proc_mem_file
+{
+public:
+ proc_mem_file (ptid_t ptid, int fd)
+ : m_ptid (ptid), m_fd (fd)
+ {
+ gdb_assert (m_fd != -1);
+ }
- /* Close FD and clear it to -1. */
- void close ()
+ ~proc_mem_file ()
{
linux_nat_debug_printf ("closing fd %d for /proc/%d/task/%ld/mem",
- fd, ptid.pid (), ptid.lwp ());
- ::close (fd);
- fd = -1;
+ m_fd, m_ptid.pid (), m_ptid.lwp ());
+ close (m_fd);
}
-} last_proc_mem_file;
-/* Close the /proc/<pid>/mem file if its LWP matches PTID. */
+ DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (proc_mem_file);
+
+ int fd ()
+ {
+ return m_fd;
+ }
+
+private:
+ /* The LWP this file was opened for. Just for debugging
+ purposes. */
+ ptid_t m_ptid;
+
+ /* The file descriptor. */
+ int m_fd = -1;
+};
+
+/* The map between an inferior process id, and the open /proc/PID/mem
+ file. This is stored in a map instead of in a per-inferior
+ structure because we need to be able to access memory of processes
+ which don't have a corresponding struct inferior object. E.g.,
+ with "detach-on-fork on" (the default), and "follow-fork parent"
+ (also default), we don't create an inferior for the fork child, but
+ we still need to remove breakpoints from the fork child's
+ memory. */
+static std::unordered_map<int, proc_mem_file> proc_mem_file_map;
+
+/* Close the /proc/PID/mem file for PID. */
static void
-maybe_close_proc_mem_file (pid_t pid)
+close_proc_mem_file (pid_t pid)
{
- if (last_proc_mem_file.ptid.pid () == pid)
- last_proc_mem_file.close ();
+ proc_mem_file_map.erase (pid);
}
-/* Helper for linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial. Accesses /proc via
- PTID. Returns -1 on error, with errno set. Returns number of
- read/written bytes otherwise. Returns 0 on EOF, which indicates
- the address space is gone (because the process exited or
- execed). */
+/* Open the /proc/PID/mem file for the process (thread group) of PTID.
+ We actually open /proc/PID/task/LWP/mem, as that's the LWP we know
+ exists and is stopped right now. We prefer the
+ /proc/PID/task/LWP/mem form over /proc/LWP/mem to avoid tid-reuse
+ races, just in case this is ever called on an already-waited
+ LWP. */
-static ssize_t
-linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial_pid (ptid_t ptid,
- gdb_byte *readbuf, const gdb_byte *writebuf,
- ULONGEST offset, LONGEST len)
+static void
+open_proc_mem_file (ptid_t ptid)
{
- ssize_t ret;
+ auto iter = proc_mem_file_map.find (ptid.pid ());
+ gdb_assert (iter == proc_mem_file_map.end ());
- /* As long as we're hitting the same inferior, the previously open
- file is good, even if the thread it was open for exits. */
- if (last_proc_mem_file.fd != -1
- && last_proc_mem_file.ptid.pid () != ptid.pid ())
- last_proc_mem_file.close ();
+ char filename[64];
+ xsnprintf (filename, sizeof filename,
+ "/proc/%d/task/%ld/mem", ptid.pid (), ptid.lwp ());
- if (last_proc_mem_file.fd == -1)
- {
- /* Actually use /proc/<pid>/task/<lwp>/mem instead of
- /proc/<lwp>/mem to avoid PID-reuse races, as we may be trying
- to read memory via a thread which we've already reaped.
- /proc/<lwp>/mem could open a file for the wrong process. If
- the LWPID is reused for the same process it's OK, we can read
- memory through it just fine. If the LWPID is reused for a
- different process, then the open will fail because the path
- won't exist. */
- char filename[64];
- xsnprintf (filename, sizeof filename,
- "/proc/%d/task/%ld/mem", ptid.pid (), ptid.lwp ());
-
- last_proc_mem_file.fd
- = gdb_open_cloexec (filename, O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE, 0).release ();
-
- if (last_proc_mem_file.fd == -1)
- {
- linux_nat_debug_printf ("opening %s failed: %s (%d)\n",
- filename, safe_strerror (errno), errno);
- return -1;
- }
- last_proc_mem_file.ptid = ptid;
+ int fd = gdb_open_cloexec (filename, O_RDWR | O_LARGEFILE, 0).release ();
- linux_nat_debug_printf ("opened fd %d for %s",
- last_proc_mem_file.fd, filename);
+ if (fd == -1)
+ {
+ warning (_("opening /proc/PID/mem file for lwp %d.%ld failed: %s (%d)"),
+ ptid.pid (), ptid.lwp (),
+ safe_strerror (errno), errno);
+ return;
}
- int fd = last_proc_mem_file.fd;
+ proc_mem_file_map.emplace (std::piecewise_construct,
+ std::forward_as_tuple (ptid.pid ()),
+ std::forward_as_tuple (ptid, fd));
+
+ linux_nat_debug_printf ("opened fd %d for lwp %d.%ld\n",
+ fd, ptid.pid (), ptid.lwp ());
+}
+
+/* Implement the to_xfer_partial target method using /proc/PID/mem.
+ Because we can use a single read/write call, this can be much more
+ efficient than banging away at PTRACE_PEEKTEXT. Also, unlike
+ PTRACE_PEEKTEXT/PTRACE_POKETEXT, this works with running
+ threads. */
+
+static enum target_xfer_status
+linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial (gdb_byte *readbuf, const gdb_byte *writebuf,
+ ULONGEST offset, LONGEST len,
+ ULONGEST *xfered_len)
+{
+ ssize_t ret;
+
+ auto iter = proc_mem_file_map.find (inferior_ptid.pid ());
+ if (iter == proc_mem_file_map.end ())
+ return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
+
+ int fd = iter->second.fd ();
+
+ gdb_assert (fd != -1);
/* Use pread64/pwrite64 if available, since they save a syscall and can
handle 64-bit offsets even on 32-bit platforms (for instance, SPARC
@@ -3866,125 +3921,24 @@ linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial_pid (ptid_t ptid,
if (ret == -1)
{
- linux_nat_debug_printf ("accessing fd %d for pid %ld failed: %s (%d)\n",
- fd, ptid.lwp (),
+ linux_nat_debug_printf ("accessing fd %d for pid %d failed: %s (%d)\n",
+ fd, inferior_ptid.pid (),
safe_strerror (errno), errno);
+ return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
}
else if (ret == 0)
{
- linux_nat_debug_printf ("accessing fd %d for pid %ld got EOF\n",
- fd, ptid.lwp ());
- }
-
- return ret;
-}
-
-/* Implement the to_xfer_partial target method using /proc/<pid>/mem.
- Because we can use a single read/write call, this can be much more
- efficient than banging away at PTRACE_PEEKTEXT. Also, unlike
- PTRACE_PEEKTEXT/PTRACE_POKETEXT, this works with running
- threads. */
-
-static enum target_xfer_status
-linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial (gdb_byte *readbuf, const gdb_byte *writebuf,
- ULONGEST offset, LONGEST len,
- ULONGEST *xfered_len)
-{
- /* Unlike PTRACE_PEEKTEXT/PTRACE_POKETEXT, reading/writing from/to
- /proc/<pid>/mem works with running threads, and even exited
- threads if the file was already open. If we need to open or
- reopen the /proc file though, we may get an EACCES error
- ("Permission denied"), meaning the thread is gone but its exit
- status isn't reaped yet, or ENOENT if the thread is gone and
- already reaped. In that case, just try opening the file for
- another thread in the process. If all threads fail, then it must
- mean the whole process exited, in which case there's nothing else
- to do and we just fail the memory access.
-
- Note we don't simply always access via the leader thread because
- the leader may exit without exiting the whole process. See
- gdb.threads/leader-exit.exp, for example. */
-
- /* It's frequently the case that the selected thread is stopped, and
- is thus not likely to exit (unless something kills the process
- outside our control, with e.g., SIGKILL). Give that one a try
- first.
-
- Also, inferior_ptid may actually point at an LWP not in lwp_list.
- This happens when we're detaching from a fork child that we don't
- want to debug ("set detach-on-fork on"), and the breakpoints
- module uninstalls breakpoints from the fork child. Which process
- to access is given by inferior_ptid. */
- int res = linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial_pid (inferior_ptid,
- readbuf, writebuf,
- offset, len);
- if (res == 0)
- {
- /* EOF means the address space is gone, the whole
- process exited or execed. */
+ /* EOF means the address space is gone, the whole process exited
+ or execed. */
+ linux_nat_debug_printf ("accessing fd %d for pid %d got EOF\n",
+ fd, inferior_ptid.pid ());
return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
}
- else if (res != -1)
- {
- *xfered_len = res;
- return TARGET_XFER_OK;
- }
else
{
- /* If we simply raced with the thread exiting (EACCES), or the
- current thread is THREAD_EXITED (ENOENT), try some other
- thread. It's easier to handle an ENOENT failure than check
- for THREAD_EXIT upfront because this function is called
- before a thread for inferior_ptid is added to the thread
- list. */
- if (errno != EACCES && errno != ENOENT)
- return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
- }
-
- int cur_pid = current_inferior ()->pid;
-
- if (inferior_ptid.pid () != cur_pid)
- {
- /* We're accessing a fork child, and the access above failed.
- Don't bother iterating the LWP list, since there's no other
- LWP for this process. */
- return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
- }
-
- /* Iterate over LWPs of the current inferior, trying to access
- memory through one of them. */
- for (lwp_info *lp : all_lwps ())
- {
- if (lp->ptid.pid () != cur_pid)
- continue;
-
- res = linux_proc_xfer_memory_partial_pid (lp->ptid,
- readbuf, writebuf,
- offset, len);
-
- if (res == 0)
- {
- /* EOF means the address space is gone, the whole process
- exited or execed. */
- return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
- }
- else if (res == -1)
- {
- if (errno == EACCES)
- {
- /* This LWP is gone, try another one. */
- continue;
- }
-
- return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
- }
-
- *xfered_len = res;
+ *xfered_len = ret;
return TARGET_XFER_OK;
}
-
- /* No luck. */
- return TARGET_XFER_EOF;
}
/* Parse LINE as a signal set and add its set bits to SIGS. */
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/access-mem-running-thread-exit.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/access-mem-running-thread-exit.exp
index 4c2e2b7..7c2ea5d 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/access-mem-running-thread-exit.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/access-mem-running-thread-exit.exp
@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@
# memory through exits.
#
# The test spawns two processes and alternates memory accesses between
-# them to force flushing per-process caches. At the time of writing,
-# the Linux backend accesses inferior memory via /proc/<pid>/mem, and
-# keeps one such file open, as a cache. Alternating inferiors forces
-# opening such file for a different process, which fails if GDB tries
-# to open the file for a thread that exited. The test does ensures
-# those reopen/fail code paths are exercised.
+# them to force flushing per-process caches. When the testcase was
+# originally written, the Linux backend would access inferior memory
+# via /proc/PID/mem, and kept one such file open, as a cache.
+# Alternating inferiors would force re-opening such file for a
+# different process, which would fail if GDB tried to open the file
+# for a thread that exited. The test thus ensured those reopen/fail
+# code paths were exercised. Nowadays, GDB keeps one /proc/PID/mem
+# file open per inferior.
standard_testfile