Re: Always run the PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD tests even if PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK is not supported.

Pedro Alves
2013-10-03T10:16:39Z

On 10/02/2013 11:08 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:

>> This coupling looks unfortunate. Actually why wasn't this a
>> problem for the native target, even without GDBserver in the picture?
>> It just looks like a bug fix?
> Yes I think there is already a similar coupling problem in the
> native code:
> if PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD is supported but PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE
> is not, then the PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD verification has removed
> the flag PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK and so the following my_waitpid will
> fail.
>
> The patch you give looks to solve all that.

Great, I've checked it in now, with a minor update -- the function
name in the warning messages is updated.

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Always run the PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD tests even if PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK is not supported.

If enabling PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK fails, we never test for
PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD support. Before PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD is checked,
we have:

/* First, set the PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK option. If this fails, we
know for sure that it is not supported. */
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);

if (ret != 0)
{
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_KILL, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) 0);
if (ret != 0)
{
warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed to kill child"));
return;
}

ret = my_waitpid (child_pid, &status, 0);
if (ret != child_pid)
warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed "
"to wait for killed child"));
else if (!WIFSIGNALED (status))
warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: unexpected "
"wait status 0x%x from killed child"), status);

return; <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
}

Note that early return. If PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK isn't supported, we're
not checking PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD. This didn't use to be a problem
before the unification of this whole detection business in
linux-ptrace.c. Before, the sysgood detection was completely
separate:

static void
linux_test_for_tracesysgood (int original_pid)
{
int ret;
sigset_t prev_mask;

/* We don't want those ptrace calls to be interrupted. */
block_child_signals (&prev_mask);

linux_supports_tracesysgood_flag = 0;

ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, original_pid, 0, PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD);
if (ret != 0)
goto out;

linux_supports_tracesysgood_flag = 1;
out:
restore_child_signals_mask (&prev_mask);
}

So we need to get back the decoupling somehow. I think it's cleaner
to split the seperate feature detections to separate functions. This
patch does that. The new functions are named for their counterparts
that existed before this code was moved to linux-ptrace.c.

Note I've used forward declarations for the new functions to make the
patch clearer, as otherwise the patch would look like I'd be adding a
bunch of new code. A reorder can be done in a follow up patch.

Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17.

gdb/
2013-10-03 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>

* common/linux-ptrace.c (linux_check_ptrace_features): Factor out
the PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD and PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK to separate
functions. Always test for PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD even if
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK is not supported.
(linux_test_for_tracesysgood): New function.
(linux_test_for_tracefork): New function, factored out from
linux_check_ptrace_features, and also don't kill child_pid here.
---

gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
index 3a8e25e..9f11f2f 100644
--- a/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
+++ b/gdb/common/linux-ptrace.c
@@ -308,13 +308,15 @@ linux_child_function (gdb_byte *child_stack)
_exit (0);
}

+static void linux_test_for_tracesysgood (int child_pid);
+static void linux_test_for_tracefork (int child_pid);
+
/* Determine ptrace features available on this target. */

static void
linux_check_ptrace_features (void)
{
int child_pid, ret, status;
- long second_pid;

/* Initialize the options. */
current_ptrace_options = 0;
@@ -335,42 +337,60 @@ linux_check_ptrace_features (void)
error (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: waitpid: unexpected status %d."),
status);

- /* First, set the PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK option. If this fails, we
- know for sure that it is not supported. */
- ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
- (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
+ linux_test_for_tracesysgood (child_pid);

- if (ret != 0)
+ linux_test_for_tracefork (child_pid);
+
+ /* Clean things up and kill any pending children. */
+ do
{
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_KILL, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) 0);
if (ret != 0)
- {
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed to kill child"));
- return;
- }
-
- ret = my_waitpid (child_pid, &status, 0);
- if (ret != child_pid)
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed "
- "to wait for killed child"));
- else if (!WIFSIGNALED (status))
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: unexpected "
- "wait status 0x%x from killed child"), status);
-
- return;
+ warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed to kill child"));
+ my_waitpid (child_pid, &status, 0);
}
+ while (WIFSTOPPED (status));
+}
+
+/* Determine if PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD can be used to catch
+ syscalls. */

+static void
+linux_test_for_tracesysgood (int child_pid)
+{
#ifdef GDBSERVER
- /* gdbserver does not support PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD or
- PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE yet. */
+ /* gdbserver does not support PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD. */
#else
- /* Check if the target supports PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD. */
+ int ret;
+
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD);
if (ret == 0)
current_ptrace_options |= PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD;
+#endif
+}
+
+/* Determine if PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK can be used to follow fork
+ events. */

+static void
+linux_test_for_tracefork (int child_pid)
+{
+ int ret, status;
+ long second_pid;
+
+ /* First, set the PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK option. If this fails, we
+ know for sure that it is not supported. */
+ ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
+ (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK);
+
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return;
+
+#ifdef GDBSERVER
+ /* gdbserver does not support PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE yet. */
+#else
/* Check if the target supports PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE. */
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_SETOPTIONS, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) (PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK
@@ -394,7 +414,7 @@ linux_check_ptrace_features (void)
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_CONT, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) 0);
if (ret != 0)
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed to resume child"));
+ warning (_("linux_test_for_tracefork: failed to resume child"));

ret = my_waitpid (child_pid, &status, 0);

@@ -431,25 +451,14 @@ linux_check_ptrace_features (void)
ret = ptrace (PTRACE_KILL, second_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
(PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) 0);
if (ret != 0)
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: "
+ warning (_("linux_test_for_tracefork: "
"failed to kill second child"));
my_waitpid (second_pid, &status, 0);
}
}
else
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: unexpected result from waitpid "
+ warning (_("linux_test_for_tracefork: unexpected result from waitpid "
"(%d, status 0x%x)"), ret, status);
-
- /* Clean things up and kill any pending children. */
- do
- {
- ret = ptrace (PTRACE_KILL, child_pid, (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG3) 0,
- (PTRACE_TYPE_ARG4) 0);
- if (ret != 0)
- warning (_("linux_check_ptrace_features: failed to kill child"));
- my_waitpid (child_pid, &status, 0);
- }
- while (WIFSTOPPED (status));
}

/* Enable reporting of all currently supported ptrace events. */