Bug 614659 - prelink shifts .bss address by .dynbss breaking gdb
Summary: prelink shifts .bss address by .dynbss breaking gdb
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdb
Version: 12
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jan Kratochvil
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 614806 614808
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Reported: 2010-07-14 22:27 UTC by Jan Kratochvil
Modified: 2010-12-04 00:25 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 614806 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2010-12-03 13:15:04 UTC
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Description Jan Kratochvil 2010-07-14 22:27:04 UTC
Description of problem:
I found the PIE support in GDB broke debugging of some binaries.
But I find GDB is IMHO correct and one should fix more prelink.
As the sections ordering in stripped<->.debug file is different GDB matches their addresses by their name.
Should be GDB hacked for a single global prelink file offset or would prelink make the section names+addresses matching in both files?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
prelink-0.4.3-3.fc13.x86_64
FAIL gdb-7.1-28.fc13.x86_64
PASS <= FSF GDB 7.0
FAIL >= FSF GDB 7.1
elfutils-0.148-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
(set -ex;echo 'int optind,v,*p=&v;main(){return optind;}'|gcc -o 1.built -g -x c -;eu-strip --remove-comment -o 1.strip -f 1.debug 1.built;cp 1.strip 1.strip.prelink;prelink -N 1.strip.prelink;echo OK)
# That is create a conflict to force .dynbss section.

readelf -a 1.strip.prelink
+
readelf -a 1.debug

(gdb) p p
(gdb) p &v

Actual results:
  [25] .dynbss           PROGBITS         0000000000600850  00000850
       0000000000000004  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     8
  [26] .bss              PROGBITS         0000000000600854  00000854
       000000000000001c  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     8
+
  [25] .bss              NOBITS           0000000000600850  00000250
       0000000000000020  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     8
$1 = (int *) 0x600868
$2 = (int *) 0x60086c

Expected results:
  [25] .bss              PROGBITS         0000000000600850  00000850
       0000000000000020  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     8
+
  [25] .bss              NOBITS           0000000000600850  00000250
       0000000000000020  0000000000000000  WA       0     0     8
$1 = (int *) 0x600868
$2 = (int *) 0x600868

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Kratochvil 2010-07-14 22:29:19 UTC
GDB gets loaded for the test above by:
$ gdb -q -nx ./1.strip.prelink
Reading symbols from .../1.strip.prelink...Reading symbols from .../1.debug...done.
done.

Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2010-07-14 22:39:14 UTC
Prelink doesn't shift any of the SHT_PROGBITS allocated sections (other than .interp), it can't do that even if it wanted - the text section or data sections likely contain addresses of .bss vars.

What prelink does is split .bss section into .dynbss and .bss - .dynbss is the first part, which during prelinking becomes SHT_PROGBITS, because it needs to be now initialized from the file, while .bss is the rest.

So, there isn't really anything to change on the prelink side here I'm afraid.

Comment 3 Jan Kratochvil 2010-07-14 22:51:42 UTC
I see the conflicting symbols are already ordered first in the ".bss" section.
Even before prelink ever sees the file.

Do you approve this GDB fix plan?

Prefer ".dynbss" over ".bss" when matching their vaddr.

".dynstr" currently also gets bogus shift but it does not contain inferior debugger-addressable objects.  Therefore there exist no symbols located in the ".dynstr" section.  GDB can ignore any bogus shifts of ".dynstr".

Thanks for info.

Comment 4 Jan Kratochvil 2010-07-15 09:57:18 UTC
Using now .dynbss address instead.
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-07/msg00237.html

Comment 5 Jakub Jelinek 2010-07-15 10:03:57 UTC
.dynstr isn't a SHT_PROGBITS/SHT_NOBITS section, nothing can contain addresses into that section, so it is fine for prelink to move it around as it wants.
Similarly for many other sections.  Currently, prelink freely moves around
SHT_HASH, SHT_GNU_HASH, SHT_DYNSYM, SHT_REL, SHT_RELA, SHT_STRTAB, SHT_NOTE, SHT_GNU_verdef, SHT_GNU_verneed, SHT_GNU_versym and SHT_GNU_LIBLIST sections plus .interp (which is SHT_PROGBITS, but nothing can point at it).
.bss may be split into .dynbss/.bss, .sbss may be split into .sdynbss/.sbss (in both cases it is to prelink COPY relocations).

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2010-07-20 17:33:54 UTC
gdb-7.1-29.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.1-29.fc13

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2010-07-20 18:07:17 UTC
gdb-7.0.1-49.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdb-7.0.1-49.fc12

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