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Bug 971849 - Add $_signo convenience variable
Summary: Add $_signo convenience variable
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gdb
Version: 6.5
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Sergio Durigan Junior
QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-07 12:14 UTC by Denys Vlasenko
Modified: 2014-10-14 07:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gdb-7.2-66.el6
Doc Type: Enhancement
Doc Text:
Cause: GDB did not had a proper way of representing the signal that caused the program being debugged to exit. Consequence: There was no way to retrieve this information when using a corefile for debugging. Fix: GDB now correctly exports the signal that caused the program being debugged to exit. Result: The user can now obtain this information when using a corefile for debugging.
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-14 07:27:57 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
Proposed patch (untested) (2.12 KB, patch)
2013-06-07 13:23 UTC, Denys Vlasenko 		no flags Details | Diff
Updated patch. (1.76 KB, patch)
2013-06-11 15:59 UTC, Denys Vlasenko 		no flags Details | Diff
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:1534 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE gdb bug fix and enhancement update 2014-10-14 01:21:50 UTC

Description Denys Vlasenko 2013-06-07 12:14:44 UTC 
Abrt project wants to perform vulnerability analysis on saved coredumps.
It is planned to be implemented as a python gdb module.
A part of analysis requires knowing the signal which killed the task.

This works on a live process:

sig = gdb.parse_and_eval("$_siginfo.si_signo")

but not on the coredump:

(gdb) core ./coredump
[New LWP 2703]
Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnote <<skip>>'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x09fa5348 in ?? ()
(gdb) print $_siginfo.si_signo
Unable to read siginfo

But obviously, gdb does know the signal number - it even said so a few lines above.

Please add a convenience variable for it. Say, call it $_signo.
Comment 1 Jan Kratochvil 2013-06-07 12:23:20 UTC 
GDB can decode full $_siginfo from NT_SIGINFO; I did not test it but assuming RHEL-6 kernel still did not produce NT_SIGINFO.

As it is just a backward compatibility issue isn't it enough to use:
eu-readelf -n ~/t/sleep.core | grep info.si_
    info.si_signo: 11, info.si_code: 0, info.si_errno: 0, cursig: 11
Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2013-06-07 13:23:07 UTC 
Created attachment 758156 [details]
Proposed patch (untested)
Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2013-06-07 13:31:53 UTC 
(In reply to Jan Kratochvil from comment #1)
> GDB can decode full $_siginfo from NT_SIGINFO; I did not test it but
> assuming RHEL-6 kernel still did not produce NT_SIGINFO.

Yes, I want to get at signo even on older kernels.

> As it is just a backward compatibility issue isn't it enough to use:
> eu-readelf -n ~/t/sleep.core | grep info.si_
>     info.si_signo: 11, info.si_code: 0, info.si_errno: 0, cursig: 11

Python gdb plugin wouldn't know whether it is being run on a coredump or a live process which has crashed just now.
How do you imagine to implement this in a not-horrifyingly hackish way?
I really don't want to do something like:

    try:
        sig = gdb.parse_and_eval("$_siginfo.si_signo")
    except gdb.error:
        # Hmm, we are probably working on coredump....
        # ... lets see whether we are running from the abrt and it provided us with signal number...
        try:
            sig = int(os.environ["ABRT_SIGNO_OF_THE_COREDUMP")
        except:
             ...

with corresponding code elsewhere which sets $ABRT_SIGNO_OF_THE_COREDUMP.
Comment 4 Denys Vlasenko 2013-06-11 15:59:10 UTC 
Created attachment 759707 [details]
Updated patch.

I built modified gdb-7.5.1-39.fc18 with this patch, it works for me.
Comment 5 Sergio Durigan Junior 2013-06-14 18:00:35 UTC 
Proposed upstream patch: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-06/msg00321.html
Comment 6 Sergio Durigan Junior 2013-10-14 00:04:38 UTC 
Upstream patches accepted:

- New convenience function $_isvoid:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-09/msg00457.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2013-09/msg00091.html

regression fixes:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-09/msg00547.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2013-09/msg00102.html

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-09/msg00470.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2013-09/msg00093.html

- New variable $_exitsignal:

https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-10/msg00174.html
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2013-10/msg00041.html

Now it is just a matter of backporting those patches to RHEL.
Comment 7 Sergio Durigan Junior 2013-10-14 00:07:16 UTC 
Oh, just in case it wasn't clear: the name of the convenience variable accepted upstream has been changed from $_signo (as proposed in this bug report) to $_exitsignal.
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:27:57 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1534.html
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