From 3bd7e5b7ee5ea0b3bbb4030ca841f66faad74f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergio Durigan Junior Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 18:28:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Catching errors on probes-based dynamic linker interface This patch is intended to make the interaction between the probes-based dynamic linker interface and the SystemTap SDT probe code on GDB more robust. It does that by wrapping the calls to the probe API with TRY...CATCH'es, so that any exception thrown will be caught and handled properly. The idea for this patch came from , which is a bug initially filed against Fedora GDB (but now under Fedora GLIBC). This bug happens on armhfp (although it could happen on other targets as well), and is triggered because GCC generates a strange argument for one of the probes used by GDB in the dynamic linker interface. As can be seen in the bug, this argument is "-4@.L1052". I don't want to discuss the reasons for this argument to be there (this discussion belongs to the bug, or to another thread), but GDB could definitely do a better error handling here. Currently, one sees the following message when there is an error in the probes-based dynamic linker interface: (gdb) run Starting program: /bin/inferior warning: Probes-based dynamic linker interface failed. Reverting to original interface. Cannot parse expression `.L976 4@r4'. (gdb) Which means that one needs to explicitly issue a "continue" command to make GDB continue running the inferior, even though this error is not fatal and GDB will fallback to the old interface automatically. This is where this patch helps: it makes GDB still print the necessary warnings or error messages, but it *also* does not stop the inferior unnecessarily. I have tested this patch on the systems where this error happens, but I could not come up with a way to create a testcase for it. Nevertheless, it should be straightforward to see that this patch does improve the current situation. gdb/ChangeLog: 2015-09-01 Sergio Durigan Junior * solib-svr4.c (solib_event_probe_action): Call get_probe_argument_count using TRY...CATCH. (svr4_handle_solib_event): Likewise, for evaluate_probe_argument. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ gdb/solib-svr4.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index cd3eaa1bc4c..8ed469f5df6 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2015-09-01 Sergio Durigan Junior + + * solib-svr4.c (solib_event_probe_action): Call + get_probe_argument_count using TRY...CATCH. + (svr4_handle_solib_event): Likewise, for evaluate_probe_argument. + 2015-09-01 Sergio Durigan Junior * probe.h (struct probe_ops) probe, frame); + TRY + { + probe_argc = get_probe_argument_count (pa->probe, frame); + } + CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR) + { + exception_print (gdb_stderr, ex); + probe_argc = 0; + } + END_CATCH + + /* If get_probe_argument_count throws an exception, probe_argc will + be set to zero. However, if pa->probe does not have arguments, + then get_probe_argument_count will succeed but probe_argc will + also be zero. Both cases happen because of different things, but + they are treated equally here: action will be set to + PROBES_INTERFACE_FAILED. */ if (probe_argc == 2) action = FULL_RELOAD; else if (probe_argc < 2) @@ -1940,7 +1956,17 @@ svr4_handle_solib_event (void) usm_chain = make_cleanup (resume_section_map_updates_cleanup, current_program_space); - val = evaluate_probe_argument (pa->probe, 1, frame); + TRY + { + val = evaluate_probe_argument (pa->probe, 1, frame); + } + CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR) + { + exception_print (gdb_stderr, ex); + val = NULL; + } + END_CATCH + if (val == NULL) { do_cleanups (old_chain); @@ -1971,7 +1997,18 @@ svr4_handle_solib_event (void) if (action == UPDATE_OR_RELOAD) { - val = evaluate_probe_argument (pa->probe, 2, frame); + TRY + { + val = evaluate_probe_argument (pa->probe, 2, frame); + } + CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR) + { + exception_print (gdb_stderr, ex); + do_cleanups (old_chain); + return; + } + END_CATCH + if (val != NULL) lm = value_as_address (val); -- 2.30.2