pahole -J .tmp_linux.btf during Linux build process always crashes
on my system.
Problem is that when gobuffer is initialized via gobuffer__init(),
it is in state where 'index' (AKA its size) is set to 1, but
'entries' is NULL.
State corrects itself if 'gobuffer__add()' is invoked, as that
will allocate buffer (even if added len == 0). But if __add()
is never invoked because only anonymous symbols are present,
one ends up with gobuffer that crashes gobuffer__copy.
Instead of allocating single-byte buffer always I opted for
checking if gobuffer entries is NULL before use in copy and
compress - gobuffer__init() would need prototype change to
report malloc failures, and it seems unnecessary to allocate
memory always - even if file does not have any symbols after
all.
(gdb) bt
#0 __memmove_sse2_unaligned_erms () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:287
#1 0x00007f2f2c1ec2ee in btf_elf__encode (btfe=0x5654e31e2e30, flags=flags@entry=0 '\000') at libbtf.c:750
#2 0x00007f2f2c1e9af0 in btf_encoder__encode () at btf_encoder.c:164
#3 0x00005654e2407599 in main (argc=3, argv=0x7ffcd8783f18) at pahole.c:1344
(gdb) frame 1
#1 0x00007f2f2c1ec2ee in btf_elf__encode (btfe=0x5654e31e2e30, flags=flags@entry=0 '\000') at libbtf.c:750
750 gobuffer__copy(btfe->strings, btf_elf__nohdr_data(btfe) + hdr->str_off);
(gdb) print btfe->strings
$1 = (struct gobuffer *) 0x5654e31db2c8
(gdb) print *btfe->strings
$2 = {entries = 0x0, nr_entries = 0, index = 1, allocated_size = 0}
(gdb) print btfe->types
$3 = {entries = 0x5654e31e2ef0 "", nr_entries = 1, index = 16, allocated_size = 8192}
(gdb) x /16bx btfe->types.entries
0x5654e31e2ef0: 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01
0x5654e31e2ef8: 0x04 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x20 0x00 0x00 0x00
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Build instructions:
1. install cmake
2. mkdir build
3. cd build
4. cmake -D__LIB=lib ..
5. make install
Default is to be installed on /usr/local, see rpm spec file for
installing on other places.
Known to work scenarios:
Mandriva Cooker:
cmake 2.4.5-1mdv2007.1
libelfutils1-devel 0.123-1mdv2007.1
Debian Unstable:
cmake 2.4.5-1
libdw-dev 0.123-2
Fedora Core 6:
cmake 2.4.5-2.fc6
elfutils-devel 0.126-1.fc6
88674f0395