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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2018-04-07 13:51:59 -0400
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>2018-04-07 13:51:59 -0400
commitb2e586e850dbf1dafc10beea3250d22e70add4b5 (patch)
tree51d6b473b6c5c39453e34b5ad045c57f7591f214 /gdb/progspace.c
parentImplement write_async_safe for mi_console_file (PR 22299) (diff)
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Defer breakpoint reset when cloning progspace for fork child
Using this simple test: static void break_here () { } int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { fork (); break_here(); return 0; } compiled as a PIE: $ gcc test.c -g3 -O0 -o test -pie and running this: $ ./gdb -nx -q --data-directory=data-directory ./test -ex "b break_here" -ex "set detach-on-fork off" -ex r gives: Warning: Cannot insert breakpoint 1. Cannot access memory at address 0x64a Note that GDB might get stopped by SIGTTOU because of this issue: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23020 In that case, just use "fg" to continue. This issue happens only with position-independent executables. Adding the main objfile for the new inferior (the fork child) causes GDB to try to reset the breakpoints. However, that new objfile has not been relocated yet. So the breakpoint on "break_here" resolves to an unrelocated address, from which we are trying to read/write to set a breakpoint. Passing SYMFILE_DEFER_BP_RESET avoids that problem. The executable is relocated just after, in the follow_fork_inferior function. The buildbot seems happy with this patch. I don't think it's necessary to add a new test. Just changing this made many tests go from FAIL to PASS on my machine, where gcc produces PIE executables by default. If anything, I think we would need to add a board file that produces position-independent executables, so that we can run all the tests with PIE, even on machines where that is not the default. gdb/ChangeLog: * progspace.c (clone_program_space): Pass SYMFILE_DEFER_BP_RESET to symbol_file_add_main.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/progspace.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/progspace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/progspace.c b/gdb/progspace.c
index e0bcc5a18d6..ba400d47aa5 100644
--- a/gdb/progspace.c
+++ b/gdb/progspace.c
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ clone_program_space (struct program_space *dest, struct program_space *src)
exec_file_attach (src->pspace_exec_filename, 0);
if (src->symfile_object_file != NULL)
- symbol_file_add_main (objfile_name (src->symfile_object_file), 0);
+ symbol_file_add_main (objfile_name (src->symfile_object_file),
+ SYMFILE_DEFER_BP_RESET);
return dest;
}