gdb/corelow.c: fix use-after-free in build_file_mappings
In core_target::build_file_mappings, GDB tries to open files referenced
in the core dump.
The process goes like this:
struct bfd *bfd = bfd_map[filename];
if (bfd == nullptr)
{
bfd = bfd_map[filename]
= bfd_openr (expanded_fname.get (), "binary");
if (bfd == nullptr || !bfd_check_format (bfd, bfd_object))
{
if (bfd != nullptr)
bfd_close (bfd);
return;
}
}
asection *sec = bfd_make_section_anyway (bfd, "load");
...
The problem is that if bfd_check_format fails, we close the bfd but keep
a reference to it in the bfd_map.
If the same filename appears another time in the NT_FILE note, we enter
this code again. The second time, bfd_map[filename] is not nullptr and
we try to call bfd_make_section_anyway on an already closed BFD, which
is a use-after-free error.
This patch makes sure that the bfd is only saved in the bfd_map if it
got opened successfully.
This error got exposed by a recent change in BFD (
014a602b86f "Don't
optimise bfd_seek to same position"). Since this change, opening a
coredump which contains mapping to some special files such as a DRI
render node (/dev/dri/renderD$NUM) exposes the issue. This happens for
example for processes using AMDGPU devices to offload compute tasks.
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>