[PATCH v2] gdb: check for empty strings in, get_standard_cache_dir/get_standard_config_dir

Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-01-08T15:51:14Z

On 2021-01-08 4:48 a.m., Andrew Burgess wrote:
> I wonder if it's worth including the case where ALL of the environment
> variables are empty as well, just to check that there's no issues with
> GDB falling through all the checks?

I don't know, but it wasn't too difficult so I did it.

>
> Otherwise, LGTM.

I also thought it would be a good idea to check that the index-cache
directory value doesn't get affected by these empty values, that we
properly skip over them. See updated patch below.

From c010770be40c91b97be5e97ce830abea4efd8f86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 10:47:53 -0500
Subject: [PATCH v2] gdb: check for empty strings in
get_standard_cache_dir/get_standard_config_dir

New in v2:

- Check the value of the index-cache directory before and after.
- Check with all the env vars defined to empty.

As reported in PR 27157, if some environment variables read at startup
by GDB are defined but empty, we hit the assert in gdb_abspath:

$ XDG_CACHE_HOME= ./gdb -nx --data-directory=data-directory -q
AddressSanitizer:DEADLYSIGNAL
=================================================================
==2007040==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: SEGV on unknown address 0x0000000001b0 (pc 0x5639d4aa4127 bp 0x7ffdac232c00 sp 0x7ffdac232bf0 T0)
==2007040==The signal is caused by a READ memory access.
==2007040==Hint: address points to the zero page.
#0 0x5639d4aa4126 in target_stack::top() const /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/target.h:1334
#1 0x5639d4aa41f1 in inferior::top_target() /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/inferior.h:369
#2 0x5639d4a70b1f in current_top_target() /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/target.c:120
#3 0x5639d4b00591 in gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup::gdb_readline_wrapper_cleanup() /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:1046
#4 0x5639d4afab31 in gdb_readline_wrapper(char const*) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:1104
#5 0x5639d4ccce2c in defaulted_query /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:893
#6 0x5639d4ccd6af in query(char const*, ...) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:985
#7 0x5639d4ccaec1 in internal_vproblem /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:373
#8 0x5639d4ccb3d1 in internal_verror(char const*, int, char const*, __va_list_tag*) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/utils.c:439
#9 0x5639d5151a92 in internal_error(char const*, int, char const*, ...) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/errors.cc:55
#10 0x5639d5162ab4 in gdb_abspath(char const*) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc:132
#11 0x5639d5162fac in get_standard_cache_dir[abi:cxx11]() /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc:228
#12 0x5639d3e76a81 in _initialize_index_cache() /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/dwarf2/index-cache.c:325
#13 0x5639d4dbbe92 in initialize_all_files() /home/smarchi/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/init.c:321
#14 0x5639d4b00259 in gdb_init(char*) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/top.c:2344
#15 0x5639d4440715 in captured_main_1 /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:950
#16 0x5639d444252e in captured_main /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1229
#17 0x5639d44425cf in gdb_main(captured_main_args*) /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/main.c:1254
#18 0x5639d3923371 in main /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb.c:32
#19 0x7fa002d3f0b2 in __libc_start_main (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x270b2)
#20 0x5639d392314d in _start (/home/smarchi/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/gdb+0x4d414d)

gdb_abspath doesn't handle empty strings, so handle this case in the
callers. If a variable is defined but empty, I think it's reasonable in
this case to just ignore it, as if it was not defined.

Note that this sometimes also lead to a segfault, because the failed
assertion happens very early during startup, before things are fully
initialized.

gdbsupport/ChangeLog:

PR gdb/27157
* pathstuff.cc (get_standard_cache_dir, get_standard_config_dir,
find_gdb_home_config_file): Add empty string check.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

PR gdb/27157
* gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp: New test.

Change-Id: I8654d8e97e74e1dff6d308c111ae4b1bbf07bef9
---
.../gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp | 72 +++++++++++++++++++
gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc | 14 ++--
2 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bd7212e7b655
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/empty-host-env-vars.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Copyright 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# GDB reads some environment variables on startup, make sure it behaves
+# correctly if these variables are defined but empty.
+
+set all_env_vars { HOME XDG_CACHE_HOME LOCALAPPDATA XDG_CONFIG_HOME }
+
+# Record the initial value of the index-cache directory.
+clean_restart
+set index_cache_directory ""
+gdb_test_multiple "show index-cache directory" "" {
+ -re -wrap "The directory of the index cache is \"(.*)\"\\." {
+ set index_cache_directory $expect_out(1,string)
+ set index_cache_directory [string_to_regexp $index_cache_directory]
+ pass $gdb_test_name
+ }
+}
+
+foreach_with_prefix env_var_name $all_env_vars {
+ # Restore the original state of the environment variable.
+ save_vars env($env_var_name) {
+ set env($env_var_name) {}
+ clean_restart
+
+ # Verify that the empty environment variable didn't affect the
+ # index-cache directory setting, that we still see the initial value.
+ # "HOME" is different, because if that one is unset, GDB isn't even
+ # able to compute the default location. In that case, we expect it to
+ # be empty.
+ if { $env_var_name == "HOME" } {
+ gdb_test "show index-cache directory" \
+ "The directory of the index cache is \"\"\\."
+ } else {
+ gdb_test "show index-cache directory" \
+ "The directory of the index cache is \"$index_cache_directory\"\\."
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+# Try the same, but with all the env vars set to an empty value at the same
+# time.
+with_test_prefix "all env vars" {
+ set save_vars_arg {}
+ foreach env_var_name $all_env_vars {
+ lappend save_vars_arg env($env_var_name)
+ }
+
+ # Restore the original state of all the environment variables.
+ save_vars $save_vars_arg {
+ foreach env_var_name $all_env_vars {
+ set env($env_var_name) {}
+ }
+
+ clean_restart
+
+ gdb_test "show index-cache directory" \
+ "The directory of the index cache is \"\"\\."
+ }
+}
diff --git a/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc b/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc
index 51ab8c651b20..ad13900819ef 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc
+++ b/gdbsupport/pathstuff.cc
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ get_standard_cache_dir ()

#ifndef __APPLE__
const char *xdg_cache_home = getenv ("XDG_CACHE_HOME");
- if (xdg_cache_home != NULL)
+ if (xdg_cache_home != NULL && xdg_cache_home[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (xdg_cache_home));
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ get_standard_cache_dir ()
#endif

const char *home = getenv ("HOME");
- if (home != NULL)
+ if (home != NULL && home[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (home));
@@ -240,14 +240,14 @@ get_standard_cache_dir ()

#ifdef WIN32
const char *win_home = getenv ("LOCALAPPDATA");
- if (win_home != NULL)
+ if (win_home != NULL && win_home[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (win_home));
return string_printf ("%s/gdb", abs.get ());
}
#endif
-
+
return {};
}

@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ get_standard_config_dir ()

#ifndef __APPLE__
const char *xdg_config_home = getenv ("XDG_CONFIG_HOME");
- if (xdg_config_home != NULL)
+ if (xdg_config_home != NULL && xdg_config_home[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (xdg_config_home));
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ get_standard_config_dir ()
#endif

const char *home = getenv ("HOME");
- if (home != NULL)
+ if (home != NULL && home[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (home));
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ find_gdb_home_config_file (const char *name, struct stat *buf)
}

const char *homedir = getenv ("HOME");
- if (homedir != nullptr)
+ if (homedir != nullptr && homedir[0] != '\0')
{
/* Make sure the path is absolute and tilde-expanded. */
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> abs (gdb_abspath (homedir));
--
2.29.2