Commit 1138f246 authored by Paolo Bonzini's avatar Paolo Bonzini Committed by Stefan Hajnoczi
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qemu-gdb: allow using glibc_pointer_guard() on core dumps 



get_fs_base() cannot be run on a core dump, because it uses the arch_prctl
system call.  The fs base is the value that is returned by pthread_self(),
and it would be nice to just glean it from the "info threads" output:

* 1    Thread 0x7f16a3fff700 (LWP 33642) pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 ()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

but unfortunately the gdb API does not provide that.  Instead, we can
look for the "arg" argument of the start_thread function if glibc debug
information are available.  If not, fall back to the old mechanism.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-id: 1444636974-19950-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
parent 7bc8e0c9

scripts/qemugdb/coroutine.py

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@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ 
import gdb



def get_fs_base():

    '''Fetch %fs base value using arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_FS)'''

    '''Fetch %fs base value using arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_FS).  This is

       pthread_self().'''

    # %rsp - 120 is scratch space according to the SystemV ABI

    old = gdb.parse_and_eval('*(uint64_t*)($rsp - 120)')

    gdb.execute('call arch_prctl(0x1003, $rsp - 120)', False, True)
@@ -24,9 +25,22 @@ def get_fs_base(): 
    gdb.execute('set *(uint64_t*)($rsp - 120) = %s' % old, False, True)

    return fs_base



def pthread_self():

    '''Fetch pthread_self() from the glibc start_thread function.'''

    f = gdb.newest_frame()

    while f.name() != 'start_thread':

        f = f.older()

        if f is None:

            return get_fs_base()



    try:

        return f.read_var("arg")

    except ValueError:

        return get_fs_base()



def get_glibc_pointer_guard():

    '''Fetch glibc pointer guard value'''

    fs_base = get_fs_base()

    fs_base = pthread_self()

    return gdb.parse_and_eval('*(uint64_t*)((uint64_t)%s + 0x30)' % fs_base)



def glibc_ptr_demangle(val, pointer_guard):