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Jan Kratochvil 80c570537e SEGV in ppc64_elf_get_synthetic_symtab reading a separate debug file
The attached patch fixes the SEGV and lets GDB successfully
load all kernel modules installed by default on RHEL 7.

Valgrind on F-21 x86_64 host has shown me more clear what is the problem:

Reading symbols from /home/jkratoch/t/cordic.ko...Reading symbols from
/home/jkratoch/t/cordic.ko.debug...=================================================================
==22763==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0x6120000461c8 at pc 0x150cdbd bp 0x7fffffffc7e0 sp 0x7fffffffc7d0
READ of size 8 at 0x6120000461c8 thread T0
    #0 0x150cdbc in ppc64_elf_get_synthetic_symtab /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/bfd/elf64-ppc.c:3282
    #1 0x8c5274 in elf_read_minimal_symbols /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1205
    #2 0x8c55e7 in elf_symfile_read /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1268
[...]
0x6120000461c8 is located 264 bytes inside of 288-byte region [0x6120000460c0,0x6120000461e0)
freed by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7ffff715454f in __interceptor_free (/lib64/libasan.so.1+0x5754f)
    #1 0xde9cde in xfree common/common-utils.c:98
    #2 0x9a04f7 in do_my_cleanups common/cleanups.c:155
    #3 0x9a05d3 in do_cleanups common/cleanups.c:177
    #4 0x8c538a in elf_read_minimal_symbols /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1229
    #5 0x8c55e7 in elf_symfile_read /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1268
[...]
previously allocated by thread T0 here:
    #0 0x7ffff71547c7 in malloc (/lib64/libasan.so.1+0x577c7)
    #1 0xde9b95 in xmalloc common/common-utils.c:41
    #2 0x8c4da2 in elf_read_minimal_symbols /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1147
    #3 0x8c55e7 in elf_symfile_read /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/gdb/elfread.c:1268
[...]
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free /home/jkratoch/redhat/gdb-test-asan/bfd/elf64-ppc.c:3282 ppc64_elf_get_synthetic_symtab
[...]
==22763==ABORTING

A similar case a few lines later I have fixed in 2010 by:
        https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=3f1eff0a2c7f0e7078f011f55b8e7f710aae0cc2

My testcase does not always reproduce it but at least a bit:
 * GDB without ppc64 target (even as a secondary one) is reported as "untested"
 * ASAN-built GDB with ppc64 target always crashes (and PASSes with this fix)
 * unpatched non-ASAN-built GDB with ppc64 target crashes from commandline
 * unpatched non-ASAN-built GDB with ppc64 target PASSes from runtest (?)

gdb/ChangeLog
2015-02-26  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* elfread.c (elf_read_minimal_symbols): Use bfd_alloc for
	bfd_canonicalize_symtab.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2015-02-26  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>

	* gdb.arch/cordic.ko.bz2: New file.
	* gdb.arch/cordic.ko.debug.bz2: New file.
	* gdb.arch/ppc64-symtab-cordic.exp: New file.
2015-02-26 14:08:01 +01:00
bfd PowerPC64 thread-safe stubs not needed for iplt 2015-02-26 21:49:54 +10:30
binutils Fixes a resource exhaustion problem when running windres on a corrupt binary. 2015-02-26 12:23:18 +00:00
config Fix --diable-shared --enable-plugins build breakage 2014-08-19 21:59:56 +09:30
cpu or1k: add missing l.msync, l.psync and l.psync instructions. 2014-07-20 20:26:09 +03:00
elfcpp [gold] Recognize DWARF5/GCC5 DW_LANG_Fortran03 and DW_LANG_Fortran08. 2015-02-17 08:08:24 +01:00
etc PR external/{16327,16328}: Remove etc/configure.texi and etc/standards.texi. 2014-06-27 11:33:25 +02:00
gas [ARM]Update for Tag_ABI_HardFP_use per EABI doc 2015-02-26 14:11:41 +08:00
gdb SEGV in ppc64_elf_get_synthetic_symtab reading a separate debug file 2015-02-26 14:08:01 +01:00
gold PowerPC64 GOLD: complain on misaligned _DS relocs 2015-02-24 18:21:39 +10:30
gprof Regenerate Makeile.in file for copyright update 2015-01-02 22:27:27 +10:30
include Adds support for generating notes in V850 binaries. 2015-02-24 17:54:09 +00:00
intl
ld [ARM]Update for Tag_ABI_HardFP_use per EABI doc 2015-02-26 14:11:41 +08:00
libdecnumber Another part of fixing "make TAGS". 2015-01-22 21:07:31 +02:00
libiberty strerror.c: Do not declare sys_nerr or sys_errlist if already macros 2015-01-19 16:29:07 +01:00
opcodes [SH] Fix clrs, sets, pref insn arch memberships. 2015-02-25 21:26:59 +01:00
readline Fix executable indicator in file name completion on Windows. 2014-12-30 21:14:25 +02:00
sim Adds support for emulating V850 e3v5 instructions to the simulator. 2015-02-24 17:58:50 +00:00
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.gitignore Sync the root .gitignore file with GCC's. 2013-01-11 15:17:35 +00:00
COPYING
COPYING.LIB
COPYING.LIBGLOSS 2013-01-07 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> 2013-01-07 21:39:26 +00:00
COPYING.NEWLIB 2013-10-01 Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn@redhat.com> 2013-10-01 18:14:04 +00:00
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ChangeLog FT32 initial support 2015-01-28 16:25:18 +10:30
MAINTAINERS Update description of ownership of files in include/ 2014-11-04 16:14:14 -08:00
Makefile.def [GCC bug #63539]: libgo does not use the newly built objcopy when doing a combined build 2015-01-03 14:54:45 -08:00
Makefile.in [GCC bug #63539]: libgo does not use the newly built objcopy when doing a combined build 2015-01-03 14:54:45 -08:00
Makefile.tpl [GCC bug #63539]: libgo does not use the newly built objcopy when doing a combined build 2015-01-03 14:54:45 -08:00
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libtool.m4 Update libtool.m4 from GCC trunk 2014-11-24 09:14:09 -08:00
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ltmain.sh PR target/59788 2014-02-06 11:01:57 +01:00
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