native build: ../../../gnulib/import/getprogname.c:291:4: error: #error "getprogname module not ported to this OS" #17
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When using GDB on native linux, it can happen that, while attempting to detach an inferior, the inferior may have been exited or have been killed, yet still be in the list of lwps. Should that happen, the assert in x86_linux_update_debug_registers in gdb/nat/x86-linux-dregs.c will trigger. The line in question looks like this: gdb_assert (lwp_is_stopped (lwp)); For this case, the lwp isn't stopped - it's dead. The bug which brought this problem to my attention is one in which the pwntools library uses GDB to to debug a process; as the script is shutting things down, it kills the process that GDB is debugging and also sends GDB a SIGTERM signal, which causes GDB to detach all inferiors prior to exiting. Here's a link to the bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2192169 The following shell command mimics part of what the pwntools reproducer script does (with regard to shutting things down), but reproduces the bug much less reliably. I have found it necessary to run the command a bunch of times before seeing the bug. (I usually see it within 5-10 repetitions.) If you choose to try this command, make sure that you have no running "cat" or "gdb" processes first! cat </dev/zero >/dev/null & \ (sleep 5; (kill -KILL `pgrep cat` & kill -TERM `pgrep gdb`)) & \ sleep 1 ; \ gdb -q -iex 'set debuginfod enabled off' -ex 'set height 0' \ -ex c /usr/bin/cat `pgrep cat` So, basically, the idea here is to kill both gdb and cat at roughly the same time. If we happen to attempt the detach before the process lwp has been deleted from GDB's (linux native) LWP data structures, then the assert will trigger. The relevant part of the backtrace looks like this: #8 0x00000000008a83ae in x86_linux_update_debug_registers (lwp=0x1873280) at gdb/nat/x86-linux-dregs.c:146 #9 0x00000000008a862f in x86_linux_prepare_to_resume (lwp=0x1873280) at gdb/nat/x86-linux.c:81 #10 0x000000000048ea42 in x86_linux_nat_target::low_prepare_to_resume ( this=0x121eee0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, lwp=0x1873280) at gdb/x86-linux-nat.h:70 #11 0x000000000081a452 in detach_one_lwp (lp=0x1873280, signo_p=0x7fff8ca3441c) at gdb/linux-nat.c:1374 #12 0x000000000081a85f in linux_nat_target::detach ( this=0x121eee0 <the_amd64_linux_nat_target>, inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0) at gdb/linux-nat.c:1450 #13 0x000000000083a23b in thread_db_target::detach ( this=0x1206ae0 <the_thread_db_target>, inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0) at gdb/linux-thread-db.c:1385 #14 0x0000000000a66722 in target_detach (inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0) at gdb/target.c:2526 #15 0x0000000000a8f0ad in kill_or_detach (inf=0x16e8f70, from_tty=0) at gdb/top.c:1659 #16 0x0000000000a8f4fa in quit_force (exit_arg=0x0, from_tty=0) at gdb/top.c:1762 #17 0x000000000070829c in async_sigterm_handler (arg=0x0) at gdb/event-top.c:1141 My colleague, Andrew Burgess, has done some recent work on other problems with detach. Upon hearing of this problem, he came up a test case which reliably reproduces the problem and tests for a few other problems as well. In addition to testing detach when the inferior has terminated due to a signal, it also tests detach when the inferior has exited normally. Andrew observed that the linux-native-only "checkpoint" command would be affected too, so the test also tests those cases when there's an active checkpoint. For the LWP exit / termination case with no checkpoint, that's handled via newly added checks of the waitstatus in detach_one_lwp in linux-nat.c. For the checkpoint detach problem, I chose to pass the lwp_info to linux_fork_detach in linux-fork.c. With that in place, suitable tests were added before attempting a PTRACE_DETACH operation. I added a few asserts at the beginning of linux_fork_detach and modified the caller code so that the newly added asserts shouldn't trigger. (That's what the 'pid == inferior_ptid.pid' check is about in gdb/linux-nat.c.) Lastly, I'll note that the checkpoint code needs some work with regard to background execution. This patch doesn't attempt to fix that problem, but it doesn't make it any worse. It does slightly improve the situation with detach because, due to the check noted above, linux_fork_detach() won't be called for the wrong inferior when there are multiple inferiors. (There are at least two other problems with the checkpoint code when there are multiple inferiors. See: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31065) This commit also adds a new test, gdb.base/process-dies-while-detaching.exp. Andrew Burgess is the primary author of this test case. Its design is similar to that of gdb.threads/main-thread-exit-during-detach.exp, which was also written by Andrew. This test checks that GDB correctly handles several cases that can occur when GDB attempts to detach an inferior process. The process can exit or be terminated (e.g. via SIGKILL) prior to GDB's event loop getting a chance to remove it from GDB's internal data structures. To complicate things even more, detach works differently when a checkpoint (created via GDB's "checkpoint" command) exists for the inferior. This test checks all four possibilities: process exit with no checkpoint, process termination with no checkpoint, process exit with a checkpoint, and process termination with a checkpoint. Co-Authored-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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After build process done with most of binutils, as, ld and co, it tries to build gnulib, and in the file getprograname.c fail because we don't have there necessary getprogname() implementation.
Checking old adtools, fine out that it also have the same getprogname.c file , without any changes, so dunno how it builds (and if at all), if it's only clib4 to day have getprogname() implementation, and before not clib2 not newlib has it. Maybe adtools just didn't build gnulib ?
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