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Following an exec with "breakpoint always-inserted on" tries to insert
breakpoints in the new image at the addresses the symbols had in the
old image.
With "always-inserted off", we see:
gdb gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec -ex "set breakpoint always-inserted off"
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8.50.20140924-cvs
...
(gdb) b main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x400664: file gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.c, line 24.
^^^^^^^^
(gdb) c
The program is not being run.
(gdb) r
Starting program: testsuite/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec
Breakpoint 1, main () at gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.c:24
24 execl (BASEDIR "/multi-arch-exec-hello",
(gdb) c
Continuing.
process 9212 is executing new program: gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec-hello
Breakpoint 1, main () at gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/hello.c:40
40 bar();
(gdb) info breakpoints
Num Type Disp Enb Address What
1 breakpoint keep y 0x080484e4 in main at gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/hello.c:40
^^^^^^^^^^
breakpoint already hit 2 times
(gdb)
Note how main was 0x400664 in multi-arch-exec, and 0x080484e4 in
gdb.multi/hello.
With "always-inserted on", we get:
Breakpoint 1, main () at gdb/testsuite/gdb.multi/multi-arch-exec.c:24
24 execl (BASEDIR "/multi-arch-exec-hello",
(gdb) c
Continuing.
infrun: target_wait (-1, status) =
infrun: 9444 [process 9444],
infrun: status->kind = execd
infrun: infwait_normal_state
infrun: TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint 1.
Cannot access memory at address 0x400664
(gdb)
That is, GDB is trying to insert a breakpoint at 0x400664, after the
exec, and then that address happens to not be mapped at all in the new
image.
The problem is that update_breakpoints_after_exec is creating
breakpoints, which ends up in update_global_location_list immediately
inserting breakpoints if "breakpoints always-inserted" is "on".
update_breakpoints_after_exec is called very early when we see an exec
event. At that point, we haven't loaded the symbols of the new
post-exec image yet, and thus haven't reset breakpoint's addresses to
whatever they may be in the new image. All we should be doing in
update_breakpoints_after_exec is deleting breakpoints that no longer
make sense after an exec. So the fix removes those breakpoint
creations.
The question is then, if not here, where are those breakpoints
re-created? Turns out we don't need to do anything else, because at
the end of follow_exec, we call breakpoint_re_set, whose tail is also
creating exactly the same breakpoints update_breakpoints_after_exec is
currently creating:
breakpoint_re_set (void)
{
...
create_overlay_event_breakpoint ();
create_longjmp_master_breakpoint ();
create_std_terminate_master_breakpoint ();
create_exception_master_breakpoint ();
}
A new test is added to exercise this.
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 20.
gdb/
2014-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/17431
* breakpoint.c (update_breakpoints_after_exec): Don't create
overlay, longjmp, std terminate nor exception breakpoints here.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-02 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
PR breakpoints/17431
* gdb.base/execl-update-breakpoints.c: New file.
* gdb.base/execl-update-breakpoints.exp: New file.
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