From: Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com>
To: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Luis Machado <luis.machado@amd.com>,
Luis Machado <luis.machado.foss@gmail.com>,
Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>,
"Yury Khrustalev" <yury.khrustalev@arm.com>,
Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>, "Tom Tromey" <tom@tromey.com>,
Matthieu Longo <matthieu.longo@arm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 07/10] gdb/linux-tdep: migrate linux_find_memory_regions_full to file_reader_t
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2026 16:48:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707154900.94542-8-matthieu.longo@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260707154900.94542-1-matthieu.longo@arm.com>
The previous implementation of linux_find_memory_regions_full could
still return success even when none of the /proc/PID/[s]maps files
existed, or all reads returned 0 bytes (this last case can happen on
Linux when the thread-group leader has exited).
As a result, the function could incorrectly succeed, allowing core
dump generation via the gcore command.
This logical defect was allowing, by chance, the function to return
success and hence, allowing fortuitously the codedump generation via
gcore command (see gcore-stale-thread test for more details).
A previous patch in this patch series fixed this issue by using the
first LWP ID of the current inferior instead of relying on the PID.
This patch adapts the code to use file_reader_t and makes the function
return an error is reading any of the procfs files fails.
---
gdb/linux-tdep.c | 23 ++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.c b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
index a2af1586d35..f1cea3040f9 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
@@ -1777,25 +1777,22 @@ linux_find_memory_regions_full (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
}
}
- std::string maps_filename = string_printf ("/proc/%ld/smaps", ptid.lwp ());
-
- gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> data
- = target_fileio_read_stralloc (NULL, maps_filename.c_str ());
+ std::vector<struct smaps_data> smaps;
- if (data == NULL)
+ file_reader_t<char> smaps_freader
+ (string_printf ("/proc/%ld/smaps", ptid.lwp ()));
+ if (smaps_freader)
+ smaps = parse_smaps_data (smaps_freader);
+ else
{
/* Older Linux kernels did not support /proc/PID/smaps. */
- maps_filename = string_printf ("/proc/%ld/maps", ptid.lwp ());
- data = target_fileio_read_stralloc (NULL, maps_filename.c_str ());
-
- if (data == nullptr)
+ file_reader_t<char> maps_freader
+ (string_printf ("/proc/%ld/maps", ptid.lwp ()));
+ if (!maps_freader)
return false;
+ smaps = parse_smaps_data (maps_freader);
}
- /* Parse the contents of smaps into a vector. */
- std::vector<struct smaps_data> smaps
- = parse_smaps_data (data.get (), maps_filename);
-
for (const struct smaps_data &map : smaps)
{
/* Invoke the callback function to create the corefile segment. */
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-07 15:48 [PATCH v1 00/10] gdb: bugfix 31207 and various refactoring in linux-tdep Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 01/10] gdb/linux-tdep: change linux_fill_prpsinfo to return bool Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:26 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-09 12:23 ` Simon Marchi
2026-07-27 14:38 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 02/10] gdb: rely on the first alive thread TPID when reading Linux procfs files Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:29 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-13 9:11 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 14:24 ` Simon Marchi
2026-07-14 15:47 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 03/10] target_fileio_read_stralloc: add an optional length parameter Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:30 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-13 15:26 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-24 2:50 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-27 14:52 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-29 1:57 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 21:28 ` Luis
2026-07-27 14:48 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-27 14:53 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 04/10] gdb support: add gdb::replace algorithm for iterators and ranges Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:30 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-10 21:21 ` Kevin Buettner
2026-07-13 15:51 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-21 21:33 ` Luis
2026-07-27 14:58 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 05/10] gdb: introduce helper class file_reader_t Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:33 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-13 17:17 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-10 21:43 ` Kevin Buettner
2026-07-13 16:31 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-13 15:50 ` Schimpe, Christina
2026-07-13 17:12 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-22 16:36 ` Joos, Christina
2026-07-27 15:13 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 06/10] gdb/linux-tdep: migrate linux_info_proc to file_reader_t Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:35 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-13 17:20 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-21 21:43 ` Luis
2026-07-27 17:11 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` Matthieu Longo [this message]
2026-07-09 6:36 ` [PATCH v1 07/10] gdb/linux-tdep: migrate linux_find_memory_regions_full " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-14 8:40 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-24 2:51 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 21:47 ` Luis
2026-07-27 17:14 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 08/10] gdb/linux-tdep: migrate parse_smaps_data " Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:41 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-14 8:49 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-24 2:52 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 21:49 ` Luis
2026-07-27 17:17 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:48 ` [PATCH v1 09/10] gdb/linux-tdep: parse ProtectionKey in /proc/PID/smaps Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:42 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-14 9:12 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-14 9:29 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-24 2:58 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-24 10:27 ` Yury Khrustalev
2026-07-25 6:40 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-27 8:22 ` Yury Khrustalev
2026-07-29 1:10 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 21:57 ` Luis
2026-07-27 17:54 ` Matthieu Longo
2026-07-07 15:49 ` [PATCH v1 10/10] gdb/linux: add helpers to read AT_HWCAP3 and AT_HWCAP4 Matthieu Longo
2026-07-09 6:44 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 21:58 ` Luis
2026-07-27 17:32 ` Matthieu Longo
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