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gdb/linux: Delete all other LWPs immediately on ptrace exec event
I noticed that after a following patch ("Step over clone syscall w/ breakpoint, TARGET_WAITKIND_THREAD_CLONED"), the gdb.threads/step-over-exec.exp was passing cleanly, but still, we'd end up with four new unexpected GDB core dumps: === gdb Summary === # of unexpected core files 4 # of expected passes 48 That said patch is making the pre-existing gdb.threads/step-over-exec.exp testcase (almost silently) expose a latent problem in gdb/linux-nat.c, resulting in a GDB crash when: #1 - a non-leader thread execs #2 - the post-exec program stops somewhere #3 - you kill the inferior Instead of #3 directly, the testcase just returns, which ends up in gdb_exit, tearing down GDB, which kills the inferior, and is thus equivalent to #3 above. Vis: $ gdb --args ./gdb /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/step-over-exec/step-over-exec-execr-thread-other-diff-text-segs-true ... (top-gdb) r ... (gdb) b main ... (gdb) r ... Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdb88) at /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-over-exec.c:69 69 argv0 = argv[0]; (gdb) c Continuing. [New Thread 0x7ffff7d89700 (LWP 2506975)] Other going in exec. Exec-ing /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/step-over-exec/step-over-exec-execr-thread-other-diff-text-segs-true-execd process 2506769 is executing new program: /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/step-over-exec/step-over-exec-execr-thread-other-diff-text-segs-true-execd Thread 1 "step-over-exec-" hit Breakpoint 1, main () at /home/pedro/gdb/build/gdb/testsuite/../../../src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.threads/step-over-exec-execd.c:28 28 foo (); (gdb) k ... Thread 1 "gdb" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x000055555574444c in thread_info::has_pending_waitstatus (this=0x0) at ../../src/gdb/gdbthread.h:393 393 return m_suspend.waitstatus_pending_p; (top-gdb) bt #0 0x000055555574444c in thread_info::has_pending_waitstatus (this=0x0) at ../../src/gdb/gdbthread.h:393 #1 0x0000555555a884d1 in get_pending_child_status (lp=0x5555579b8230, ws=0x7fffffffd130) at ../../src/gdb/linux-nat.c:1345 #2 0x0000555555a8e5e6 in kill_unfollowed_child_callback (lp=0x5555579b8230) at ../../src/gdb/linux-nat.c:3564 #3 0x0000555555a92a26 in gdb::function_view<int (lwp_info*)>::bind<int, lwp_info*>(int (*)(lwp_info*))::{lambda(gdb::fv_detail::erased_callable, lwp_info*)#1}::operator()(gdb::fv_detail::erased_callable, lwp_info*) const (this=0x0, ecall=..., args#0=0x5555579b8230) at ../../src/gdb/../gdbsupport/function-view.h:284 #4 0x0000555555a92a51 in gdb::function_view<int (lwp_info*)>::bind<int, lwp_info*>(int (*)(lwp_info*))::{lambda(gdb::fv_detail::erased_callable, lwp_info*)#1}::_FUN(gdb::fv_detail::erased_callable, lwp_info*) () at ../../src/gdb/../gdbsupport/function-view.h:278 #5 0x0000555555a91f84 in gdb::function_view<int (lwp_info*)>::operator()(lwp_info*) const (this=0x7fffffffd210, args#0=0x5555579b8230) at ../../src/gdb/../gdbsupport/function-view.h:247 #6 0x0000555555a87072 in iterate_over_lwps(ptid_t, gdb::function_view<int (lwp_info*)>) (filter=..., callback=...) at ../../src/gdb/linux-nat.c:864 #7 0x0000555555a8e732 in linux_nat_target::kill (this=0x55555653af40 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>) at ../../src/gdb/linux-nat.c:3590 #8 0x0000555555cfdc11 in target_kill () at ../../src/gdb/target.c:911 ... The root of the problem is that when a non-leader LWP execs, it just changes its tid to the tgid, replacing the pre-exec leader thread, becoming the new leader. There's no thread exit event for the execing thread. It's as if the old pre-exec LWP vanishes without trace. The ptrace man page says: "PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (since Linux 2.5.46) Stop the tracee at the next execve(2). A waitpid(2) by the tracer will return a status value such that status>>8 == (SIGTRAP | (PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC<<8)) If the execing thread is not a thread group leader, the thread ID is reset to thread group leader's ID before this stop. Since Linux 3.0, the former thread ID can be retrieved with PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG." When the core of GDB processes an exec events, it deletes all the threads of the inferior. But, that is too late -- deleting the thread does not delete the corresponding LWP, so we end leaving the pre-exec non-leader LWP stale in the LWP list. That's what leads to the crash above -- linux_nat_target::kill iterates over all LWPs, and after the patch in question, that code will look for the corresponding thread_info for each LWP. For the pre-exec non-leader LWP still listed, won't find one. This patch fixes it, by deleting the pre-exec non-leader LWP (and thread) from the LWP/thread lists as seen as we get an exec event out of ptrace. GDBserver does not need an equivalent fix, because it is already doing this, as side effect of mourning the pre-exec process, in gdbserver/linux-low.cc: else if (event == PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC && cs.report_exec_events) { ... /* Delete the execing process and all its threads. */ mourn (proc); switch_to_thread (nullptr); Change-Id: I21ec18072c7750f3a972160ae6b9e46590376643
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