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[amd64] Invalid return address after displaced stepping

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Making all-stop run on top of non-stop caused a small regression
in behavior. This was observed on x86_64-linux. The attached testcase
is in C whereas the investigation was done with an Ada program,
but it's the same scenario, and using a C testcase allows wider testing.
Basically: I am debugging a single-threaded program, and currently
stopped inside a function provided by a shared-library, at a line
calling a subprogram provided by a second shared library, and trying
to "next" over that function call.

Before we changed the default all-stop behavior, we had:

    7             Impl_Initialize;  -- Stop here and try "next" over this line
    (gdb) n
    8             return 5;  <<-- OK

But now, "next" just stops much earlier:

    (gdb) n
    0x00007ffff7bd8560 in impl.initialize@plt () from /[...]/lib/libpck.so

What happens is that next stops at a call instruction, which calls
the function's PLT, and GDB fails to notice that the inferior stepped
into a subroutine, and so decides that we're done. We can see another
symptom of the same issue by looking at the backtrace at the point
GDB stopped:

    (gdb) bt
    #0  0x00007ffff7bd8560 in impl.initialize@plt ()
       from /[...]/lib/libpck.so
    #1  0x00000000f7bd86f9 in ?? ()
    #2  0x00007fffffffdf50 in ?? ()
    #3  0x0000000000401893 in a () at /[...]/a.adb:7
    Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC

With a functioning GDB, the backtrace looks like the following instead:

    #0  0x00007ffff7bd8560 in impl.initialize@plt ()
       from /[...]/lib/libpck.so
    #1  0x00007ffff7bd86f9 in sub () at /[...]/pck.adb:7
    #2  0x0000000000401893 in a () at /[...]/a.adb:7

Note how, for frame #1, the address looks quite similar, except
for the high-order bits not being set:

    #1  0x00007ffff7bd86f9 in sub () at /[...]/pck.adb:7   <<<--  OK
    #1  0x00000000f7bd86f9 in ?? ()                        <<<--  WRONG
              ^^^^
              ||||
              Wrong

Investigating this further led me to displaced stepping.
As we are "next"-ing from a location where a breakpoint is inserted,
we need to step out of it, and since we're on non-stop mode, we need
to do it using displaced stepping. And looking at
amd64-tdep.c:amd64_displaced_step_fixup, I found the code that handles
the return address:

    regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (regs, AMD64_RSP_REGNUM, &rsp);
    retaddr = read_memory_unsigned_integer (rsp, retaddr_len, byte_order);
    retaddr = (retaddr - insn_offset) & 0xffffffffUL;

The mask used to compute retaddr looks wrong to me, keeping only
4 bytes instead of 8, and explains why the high order bits of
the backtrace are unset. What happens is that, after the displaced
stepping has completed, GDB restores that return address at the location
where the program expects it.  But because the top half bits of
the address have been masked out, the return address is now invalid.
The incorrect behavior of the "next" command and the backtrace at
that location are the first symptoms of that.  Another symptom is
that this actually alters the behavior of the program, where a "cont"
from there soon leads to a SEGV when the inferior tries to jump back
to that incorrect return address:

    (gdb) c
    Continuing.

    Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
    0x00000000f7bd86f9 in ?? ()
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This patch fixes the issue by using a mask that seems more appropriate
for this architecture.

gdb/ChangeLog:

        * amd64-tdep.c (amd64_displaced_step_fixup): Fix the mask used to
        compute RETADDR.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

        * gdb.base/dso2dso-dso2.c, gdb.base/dso2dso-dso2.h,
        gdb.base/dso2dso-dso1.c, gdb.base/dso2dso-dso1.h, gdb.base/dso2dso.c,
        gdb.base/dso2dso.exp: New files.

Tested on x86_64-linux, no regression.
This commit is contained in:
Joel Brobecker 2015-08-12 09:33:19 -07:00
parent 59ecaff361
commit 4dafcdeb13
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2015-08-12 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* amd64-tdep.c (amd64_displaced_step_fixup): Fix the mask used to
compute RETADDR.
2015-08-12 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
* python/python.c (gdbpy_decode_line): Initialize `location' to NULL

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@ -1662,7 +1662,7 @@ amd64_displaced_step_fixup (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
regcache_cooked_read_unsigned (regs, AMD64_RSP_REGNUM, &rsp);
retaddr = read_memory_unsigned_integer (rsp, retaddr_len, byte_order);
retaddr = (retaddr - insn_offset) & 0xffffffffUL;
retaddr = (retaddr - insn_offset) & 0xffffffffffffffffULL;
write_memory_unsigned_integer (rsp, retaddr_len, byte_order, retaddr);
if (debug_displaced)

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2015-08-12 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
* gdb.base/dso2dso-dso2.c, gdb.base/dso2dso-dso2.h,
gdb.base/dso2dso-dso1.c, gdb.base/dso2dso-dso1.h, gdb.base/dso2dso.c,
gdb.base/dso2dso.exp: New files.
2015-08-12 Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>

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/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "dso2dso-dso1.h"
#include "dso2dso-dso2.h"
int
sub1 (void)
{
sub2 (); /* STOP HERE. */
return 5;
}

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/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef DSO2DSO_DSO1_H
#define DSO2DSO_DSO1_H
extern int sub1 (void);
#endif

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/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "dso2dso-dso2.h"
void
sub2 (void)
{
/* Do nothing. */
}

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/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#ifndef DSO2DSO_DSO2_H
#define DSO2DSO_DSO2_H
extern void sub2 (void);
#endif

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/* Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "dso2dso-dso1.h"
int
main (void)
{
int ignored = sub1 ();
return 0;
}

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# Copyright 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
if { [skip_shlib_tests] } {
return 0
}
standard_testfile
set output_dir [standard_output_file {}]
set libdso2 $testfile-dso2
set srcfile_libdso2 $srcdir/$subdir/$libdso2.c
set binfile_libdso2 [standard_output_file $libdso2.so]
set libdso1 $testfile-dso1
set srcfile_libdso1 $srcdir/$subdir/$libdso1.c
set binfile_libdso1 [standard_output_file $libdso1.so]
if { [gdb_compile_shlib $srcfile_libdso2 $binfile_libdso2 \
[list debug additional_flags=-fPIC]] != "" } {
untested "Could not compile $binfile_libdso2."
return -1
}
if { [gdb_compile_shlib $srcfile_libdso1 $binfile_libdso1 \
[list debug additional_flags=-fPIC]] != "" } {
untested "Could not compile $binfile_libdso1."
return -1
}
if { [gdb_compile $srcdir/$subdir/$srcfile $binfile executable \
[list debug shlib=$binfile_libdso2 shlib=$binfile_libdso1]] != "" } {
return -1
}
clean_restart $binfile
gdb_load_shlibs $binfile_libdso2 $binfile_libdso1
if { ![runto_main] } {
return -1
}
# Verify that we can "next" over the call to sub2 (provided by
# libdso2) make from sub1 (provided by libdso1), and land at
# the expected location.
set bp_location [gdb_get_line_number "STOP HERE" $srcfile_libdso1]
gdb_breakpoint ${srcfile_libdso1}:${bp_location}
gdb_continue_to_breakpoint "at call to sub2" \
".*sub2 ().*"
gdb_test "next" \
".*return 5;.*" \
"next over call to sub2"