gdb: improve shared library build-id check for core-files
When GDB opens a core file, in 'core_target::build_file_mappings ()',
we collection information about the files that are mapped into the
core file, specifically, the build-id and the DT_SONAME attribute for
the file, which will be set for some shared libraries.
We then cache the DT_SONAME to build-id information on the core file
bfd object in the function set_cbfd_soname_build_id.
Later, when we are loading the shared libraries for the core file, we
can use the library's file name to look in the DT_SONAME to build-id
map, and, if we find a matching entry, we can use the build-id to
validate that we are loading the correct shared library.
This works OK, but has some limitations: not every shared library will
have a DT_SONAME attribute. Though it is good practice to add such an
attribute, it's not required. A library without this attribute will
not have its build-id checked, which can lead to GDB loading the wrong
shared library.
What I want to do in this commit is to improve GDB's ability to use
the build-ids extracted in core_target::build_file_mappings to both
validate the shared libraries being loaded, and then to use these
build-ids to potentially find (via debuginfod) the shared library.
To do this I propose making the following changes to GDB:
(1) Rather than just recording the DT_SONAME to build-id mapping in
set_cbfd_soname_build_id, we should also record, the full filename to
build-id mapping, and also the memory ranges to build-id mapping for
every memory range covered by every mapped file.
(2) Add a new callback solib_ops::find_solib_addr. This callback
takes a solib object and returns an (optional) address within the
inferior that is part of this library. We can use this address to
find a mapped file using the stored memory ranges which will increase
the cases in which a match can be found.
(3) Move the mapped file record keeping out of solib.c and into
corelow.c. Future commits will make use of this information from
other parts of GDB. This information was never solib specific, it
lived in the solib.c file because that was the only user of the data,
but really, the data is all about the core file, and should be stored
in core_target, other parts of GDB can then query this data as needed.
Now, when we load a shared library for a core file, we do the
following lookups:
1. Is the exact filename of the shared library found in the filename
to build-id map? If so then use this build-id for validation.
2. Find an address within the shared library using ::find_solib_addr
and then look for an entry in the mapped address to build-id map.
If an entry is found then use this build-id.
3. Finally, look in the soname to build-id map. If an entry is
found then use this build-id.
The addition of step #2 here means that GDB is now far more likely to
find a suitable build-id for a shared library. Having acquired a
build-id the existing code for using debuginfod to lookup a shared
library object can trigger more often.
On top of this, we also create a build-id to filename map. This is
useful as often a shared library is implemented as a symbolic link to
the actual shared library file. The mapped file information is stored
based on the actual, real file name, while the shared library
information holds the original symbolic link file name.
If when loading the shared library, we find the symbolic link has
disappeared, we can use the build-id to file name map to check if the
actual file is still around, if it is (and if the build-id matches)
then we can fall back to use that file. This is another way in which
we can slightly increase the chances that GDB will find the required
files when loading a core file.
Adding all of the above required pretty much a full rewrite of the
existing set_cbfd_soname_build_id function and the corresponding
get_cbfd_soname_build_id function, so I have taken the opportunity to
move the information caching out of solib.c and into corelow.c where
it is now accessed through the function core_target_find_mapped_file.
At this point the benefit of this move is not entirely obvious, though
I don't think the new location is significantly worse than where it
was originally. The benefit though is that the cached information is
no longer tied to the shared library loading code.
I already have a second set of patches (not in this series) that make
use of this caching from elsewhere in GDB. I've not included those
patches in this series as this series is already pretty big, but even
if those follow up patches don't arrive, I think the new location is
just as good as the original location.
Rather that caching the information within the core file BFD via the
registry mechanism, the information used for the mapped file lookup is
now stored within the core_file target directly.
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