make_corefile_notes: have caller free returned memory
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1 /* Generate a core file for the inferior process.
2
3 Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This file is part of GDB.
6
7 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10 (at your option) any later version.
11
12 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
15 GNU General Public License for more details.
16
17 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
19
20 #include "defs.h"
21 #include "elf-bfd.h"
22 #include "infcall.h"
23 #include "inferior.h"
24 #include "gdbcore.h"
25 #include "objfiles.h"
26 #include "solib.h"
27 #include "symfile.h"
28 #include "arch-utils.h"
29 #include "completer.h"
30 #include "gcore.h"
31 #include "cli/cli-decode.h"
32 #include "gdb_assert.h"
33 #include <fcntl.h>
34 #include "regcache.h"
35 #include "regset.h"
36 #include "gdb_bfd.h"
37 #include "readline/tilde.h"
38
39 /* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once. We
40 must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
41 generate-core-file for programs with large resident data. */
42 #define MAX_COPY_BYTES (1024 * 1024)
43
44 static const char *default_gcore_target (void);
45 static enum bfd_architecture default_gcore_arch (void);
46 static unsigned long default_gcore_mach (void);
47 static int gcore_memory_sections (bfd *);
48
49 /* create_gcore_bfd -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
50 Open a new bfd core file for output, and return the handle. */
51
52 bfd *
53 create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename)
54 {
55 bfd *obfd = gdb_bfd_openw (filename, default_gcore_target ());
56
57 if (!obfd)
58 error (_("Failed to open '%s' for output."), filename);
59 bfd_set_format (obfd, bfd_core);
60 bfd_set_arch_mach (obfd, default_gcore_arch (), default_gcore_mach ());
61 return obfd;
62 }
63
64 /* write_gcore_file -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
65 Compose and write the corefile data to the core file. */
66
67
68 void
69 write_gcore_file (bfd *obfd)
70 {
71 struct cleanup *cleanup;
72 void *note_data = NULL;
73 int note_size = 0;
74 asection *note_sec = NULL;
75
76 /* An external target method must build the notes section. */
77 /* FIXME: uweigand/2011-10-06: All architectures that support core file
78 generation should be converted to gdbarch_make_corefile_notes; at that
79 point, the target vector method can be removed. */
80 if (!gdbarch_make_corefile_notes_p (target_gdbarch ()))
81 note_data = target_make_corefile_notes (obfd, &note_size);
82 else
83 note_data = gdbarch_make_corefile_notes (target_gdbarch (), obfd, &note_size);
84
85 cleanup = make_cleanup (xfree, note_data);
86
87 if (note_data == NULL || note_size == 0)
88 error (_("Target does not support core file generation."));
89
90 /* Create the note section. */
91 note_sec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "note0",
92 SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
93 | SEC_READONLY
94 | SEC_ALLOC);
95 if (note_sec == NULL)
96 error (_("Failed to create 'note' section for corefile: %s"),
97 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
98
99 bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, note_sec, 0);
100 bfd_set_section_alignment (obfd, note_sec, 0);
101 bfd_set_section_size (obfd, note_sec, note_size);
102
103 /* Now create the memory/load sections. */
104 if (gcore_memory_sections (obfd) == 0)
105 error (_("gcore: failed to get corefile memory sections from target."));
106
107 /* Write out the contents of the note section. */
108 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, note_sec, note_data, 0, note_size))
109 warning (_("writing note section (%s)"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
110
111 do_cleanups (cleanup);
112 }
113
114 static void
115 do_bfd_delete_cleanup (void *arg)
116 {
117 bfd *obfd = arg;
118 const char *filename = obfd->filename;
119
120 gdb_bfd_unref (arg);
121 unlink (filename);
122 }
123
124 /* gcore_command -- implements the 'gcore' command.
125 Generate a core file from the inferior process. */
126
127 static void
128 gcore_command (char *args, int from_tty)
129 {
130 struct cleanup *filename_chain;
131 struct cleanup *bfd_chain;
132 char *corefilename;
133 bfd *obfd;
134
135 /* No use generating a corefile without a target process. */
136 if (!target_has_execution)
137 noprocess ();
138
139 if (args && *args)
140 corefilename = tilde_expand (args);
141 else
142 {
143 /* Default corefile name is "core.PID". */
144 corefilename = xstrprintf ("core.%d", ptid_get_pid (inferior_ptid));
145 }
146 filename_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, corefilename);
147
148 if (info_verbose)
149 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout,
150 "Opening corefile '%s' for output.\n", corefilename);
151
152 /* Open the output file. */
153 obfd = create_gcore_bfd (corefilename);
154
155 /* Need a cleanup that will close and delete the file. */
156 bfd_chain = make_cleanup (do_bfd_delete_cleanup, obfd);
157
158 /* Call worker function. */
159 write_gcore_file (obfd);
160
161 /* Succeeded. */
162 discard_cleanups (bfd_chain);
163 gdb_bfd_unref (obfd);
164
165 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Saved corefile %s\n", corefilename);
166 do_cleanups (filename_chain);
167 }
168
169 static unsigned long
170 default_gcore_mach (void)
171 {
172 #if 1 /* See if this even matters... */
173 return 0;
174 #else
175
176 const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
177
178 if (bfdarch != NULL)
179 return bfdarch->mach;
180 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
181 error (_("Can't find default bfd machine type (need execfile)."));
182
183 return bfd_get_mach (exec_bfd);
184 #endif /* 1 */
185 }
186
187 static enum bfd_architecture
188 default_gcore_arch (void)
189 {
190 const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
191
192 if (bfdarch != NULL)
193 return bfdarch->arch;
194 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
195 error (_("Can't find bfd architecture for corefile (need execfile)."));
196
197 return bfd_get_arch (exec_bfd);
198 }
199
200 static const char *
201 default_gcore_target (void)
202 {
203 /* The gdbarch may define a target to use for core files. */
204 if (gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target_p (target_gdbarch ()))
205 return gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target (target_gdbarch ());
206
207 /* Otherwise, try to fall back to the exec_bfd target. This will probably
208 not work for non-ELF targets. */
209 if (exec_bfd == NULL)
210 return NULL;
211 else
212 return bfd_get_target (exec_bfd);
213 }
214
215 /* Derive a reasonable stack segment by unwinding the target stack,
216 and store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP. Return non-zero if
217 successful. */
218
219 static int
220 derive_stack_segment (bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
221 {
222 struct frame_info *fi, *tmp_fi;
223
224 gdb_assert (bottom);
225 gdb_assert (top);
226
227 /* Can't succeed without stack and registers. */
228 if (!target_has_stack || !target_has_registers)
229 return 0;
230
231 /* Can't succeed without current frame. */
232 fi = get_current_frame ();
233 if (fi == NULL)
234 return 0;
235
236 /* Save frame pointer of TOS frame. */
237 *top = get_frame_base (fi);
238 /* If current stack pointer is more "inner", use that instead. */
239 if (gdbarch_inner_than (get_frame_arch (fi), get_frame_sp (fi), *top))
240 *top = get_frame_sp (fi);
241
242 /* Find prev-most frame. */
243 while ((tmp_fi = get_prev_frame (fi)) != NULL)
244 fi = tmp_fi;
245
246 /* Save frame pointer of prev-most frame. */
247 *bottom = get_frame_base (fi);
248
249 /* Now canonicalize their order, so that BOTTOM is a lower address
250 (as opposed to a lower stack frame). */
251 if (*bottom > *top)
252 {
253 bfd_vma tmp_vma;
254
255 tmp_vma = *top;
256 *top = *bottom;
257 *bottom = tmp_vma;
258 }
259
260 return 1;
261 }
262
263 /* call_target_sbrk --
264 helper function for derive_heap_segment. */
265
266 static bfd_vma
267 call_target_sbrk (int sbrk_arg)
268 {
269 struct objfile *sbrk_objf;
270 struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
271 bfd_vma top_of_heap;
272 struct value *target_sbrk_arg;
273 struct value *sbrk_fn, *ret;
274 bfd_vma tmp;
275
276 if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
277 {
278 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
279 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
280 return (bfd_vma) 0;
281 }
282 else if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("_sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
283 {
284 sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("_sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
285 if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
286 return (bfd_vma) 0;
287 }
288 else
289 return (bfd_vma) 0;
290
291 gdbarch = get_objfile_arch (sbrk_objf);
292 target_sbrk_arg = value_from_longest (builtin_type (gdbarch)->builtin_int,
293 sbrk_arg);
294 gdb_assert (target_sbrk_arg);
295 ret = call_function_by_hand (sbrk_fn, 1, &target_sbrk_arg);
296 if (ret == NULL)
297 return (bfd_vma) 0;
298
299 tmp = value_as_long (ret);
300 if ((LONGEST) tmp <= 0 || (LONGEST) tmp == 0xffffffff)
301 return (bfd_vma) 0;
302
303 top_of_heap = tmp;
304 return top_of_heap;
305 }
306
307 /* Derive a reasonable heap segment for ABFD by looking at sbrk and
308 the static data sections. Store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.
309 Return non-zero if successful. */
310
311 static int
312 derive_heap_segment (bfd *abfd, bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
313 {
314 bfd_vma top_of_data_memory = 0;
315 bfd_vma top_of_heap = 0;
316 bfd_size_type sec_size;
317 bfd_vma sec_vaddr;
318 asection *sec;
319
320 gdb_assert (bottom);
321 gdb_assert (top);
322
323 /* This function depends on being able to call a function in the
324 inferior. */
325 if (!target_has_execution)
326 return 0;
327
328 /* The following code assumes that the link map is arranged as
329 follows (low to high addresses):
330
331 ---------------------------------
332 | text sections |
333 ---------------------------------
334 | data sections (including bss) |
335 ---------------------------------
336 | heap |
337 --------------------------------- */
338
339 for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)
340 {
341 if (bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sec) & SEC_DATA
342 || strcmp (".bss", bfd_section_name (abfd, sec)) == 0)
343 {
344 sec_vaddr = bfd_get_section_vma (abfd, sec);
345 sec_size = bfd_get_section_size (sec);
346 if (sec_vaddr + sec_size > top_of_data_memory)
347 top_of_data_memory = sec_vaddr + sec_size;
348 }
349 }
350
351 top_of_heap = call_target_sbrk (0);
352 if (top_of_heap == (bfd_vma) 0)
353 return 0;
354
355 /* Return results. */
356 if (top_of_heap > top_of_data_memory)
357 {
358 *bottom = top_of_data_memory;
359 *top = top_of_heap;
360 return 1;
361 }
362
363 /* No additional heap space needs to be saved. */
364 return 0;
365 }
366
367 static void
368 make_output_phdrs (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
369 {
370 int p_flags = 0;
371 int p_type = 0;
372
373 /* FIXME: these constants may only be applicable for ELF. */
374 if (strncmp (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "load", 4) == 0)
375 p_type = PT_LOAD;
376 else if (strncmp (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "note", 4) == 0)
377 p_type = PT_NOTE;
378 else
379 p_type = PT_NULL;
380
381 p_flags |= PF_R; /* Segment is readable. */
382 if (!(bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_READONLY))
383 p_flags |= PF_W; /* Segment is writable. */
384 if (bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_CODE)
385 p_flags |= PF_X; /* Segment is executable. */
386
387 bfd_record_phdr (obfd, p_type, 1, p_flags, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, &osec);
388 }
389
390 /* find_memory_region_ftype implementation. DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file
391 GDB is creating. */
392
393 static int
394 gcore_create_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr, unsigned long size, int read,
395 int write, int exec, int modified, void *data)
396 {
397 bfd *obfd = data;
398 asection *osec;
399 flagword flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_LOAD;
400
401 /* If the memory segment has no permissions set, ignore it, otherwise
402 when we later try to access it for read/write, we'll get an error
403 or jam the kernel. */
404 if (read == 0 && write == 0 && exec == 0 && modified == 0)
405 {
406 if (info_verbose)
407 {
408 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Ignore segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
409 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
410 }
411
412 return 0;
413 }
414
415 if (write == 0 && modified == 0 && !solib_keep_data_in_core (vaddr, size))
416 {
417 /* See if this region of memory lies inside a known file on disk.
418 If so, we can avoid copying its contents by clearing SEC_LOAD. */
419 struct objfile *objfile;
420 struct obj_section *objsec;
421
422 ALL_OBJSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
423 {
424 bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd;
425 asection *asec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
426 bfd_vma align = (bfd_vma) 1 << bfd_get_section_alignment (abfd,
427 asec);
428 bfd_vma start = obj_section_addr (objsec) & -align;
429 bfd_vma end = (obj_section_endaddr (objsec) + align - 1) & -align;
430
431 /* Match if either the entire memory region lies inside the
432 section (i.e. a mapping covering some pages of a large
433 segment) or the entire section lies inside the memory region
434 (i.e. a mapping covering multiple small sections).
435
436 This BFD was synthesized from reading target memory,
437 we don't want to omit that. */
438 if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink == NULL
439 && ((vaddr >= start && vaddr + size <= end)
440 || (start >= vaddr && end <= vaddr + size))
441 && !(bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & BFD_IN_MEMORY))
442 {
443 flags &= ~(SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS);
444 goto keep; /* Break out of two nested for loops. */
445 }
446 }
447
448 keep:;
449 }
450
451 if (write == 0)
452 flags |= SEC_READONLY;
453
454 if (exec)
455 flags |= SEC_CODE;
456 else
457 flags |= SEC_DATA;
458
459 osec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "load", flags);
460 if (osec == NULL)
461 {
462 warning (_("Couldn't make gcore segment: %s"),
463 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
464 return 1;
465 }
466
467 if (info_verbose)
468 {
469 fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Save segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
470 plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
471 }
472
473 bfd_set_section_size (obfd, osec, size);
474 bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, osec, vaddr);
475 bfd_section_lma (obfd, osec) = 0; /* ??? bfd_set_section_lma? */
476 return 0;
477 }
478
479 int
480 objfile_find_memory_regions (struct target_ops *self,
481 find_memory_region_ftype func, void *obfd)
482 {
483 /* Use objfile data to create memory sections. */
484 struct objfile *objfile;
485 struct obj_section *objsec;
486 bfd_vma temp_bottom, temp_top;
487
488 /* Call callback function for each objfile section. */
489 ALL_OBJSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
490 {
491 bfd *ibfd = objfile->obfd;
492 asection *isec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
493 flagword flags = bfd_get_section_flags (ibfd, isec);
494
495 /* Separate debug info files are irrelevant for gcore. */
496 if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink != NULL)
497 continue;
498
499 if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) || (flags & SEC_LOAD))
500 {
501 int size = bfd_section_size (ibfd, isec);
502 int ret;
503
504 ret = (*func) (obj_section_addr (objsec), size,
505 1, /* All sections will be readable. */
506 (flags & SEC_READONLY) == 0, /* Writable. */
507 (flags & SEC_CODE) != 0, /* Executable. */
508 1, /* MODIFIED is unknown, pass it as true. */
509 obfd);
510 if (ret != 0)
511 return ret;
512 }
513 }
514
515 /* Make a stack segment. */
516 if (derive_stack_segment (&temp_bottom, &temp_top))
517 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
518 1, /* Stack section will be readable. */
519 1, /* Stack section will be writable. */
520 0, /* Stack section will not be executable. */
521 1, /* Stack section will be modified. */
522 obfd);
523
524 /* Make a heap segment. */
525 if (derive_heap_segment (exec_bfd, &temp_bottom, &temp_top))
526 (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
527 1, /* Heap section will be readable. */
528 1, /* Heap section will be writable. */
529 0, /* Heap section will not be executable. */
530 1, /* Heap section will be modified. */
531 obfd);
532
533 return 0;
534 }
535
536 static void
537 gcore_copy_callback (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
538 {
539 bfd_size_type size, total_size = bfd_section_size (obfd, osec);
540 file_ptr offset = 0;
541 struct cleanup *old_chain = NULL;
542 void *memhunk;
543
544 /* Read-only sections are marked; we don't have to copy their contents. */
545 if ((bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_LOAD) == 0)
546 return;
547
548 /* Only interested in "load" sections. */
549 if (strncmp ("load", bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), 4) != 0)
550 return;
551
552 size = min (total_size, MAX_COPY_BYTES);
553 memhunk = xmalloc (size);
554 old_chain = make_cleanup (xfree, memhunk);
555
556 while (total_size > 0)
557 {
558 if (size > total_size)
559 size = total_size;
560
561 if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec) + offset,
562 memhunk, size) != 0)
563 {
564 warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile "
565 "section, %s bytes at %s."),
566 plongest (size),
567 paddress (target_gdbarch (), bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec)));
568 break;
569 }
570 if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk, offset, size))
571 {
572 warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
573 bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
574 break;
575 }
576
577 total_size -= size;
578 offset += size;
579 }
580
581 do_cleanups (old_chain); /* Frees MEMHUNK. */
582 }
583
584 static int
585 gcore_memory_sections (bfd *obfd)
586 {
587 /* Try gdbarch method first, then fall back to target method. */
588 if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (target_gdbarch ())
589 || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (target_gdbarch (),
590 gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
591 {
592 if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
593 return 0; /* FIXME: error return/msg? */
594 }
595
596 /* Record phdrs for section-to-segment mapping. */
597 bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, make_output_phdrs, NULL);
598
599 /* Copy memory region contents. */
600 bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, gcore_copy_callback, NULL);
601
602 return 1;
603 }
604
605 /* Provide a prototype to silence -Wmissing-prototypes. */
606 extern initialize_file_ftype _initialize_gcore;
607
608 void
609 _initialize_gcore (void)
610 {
611 add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command, _("\
612 Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
613 Argument is optional filename. Default filename is 'core.<process_id>'."));
614
615 add_com_alias ("gcore", "generate-core-file", class_files, 1);
616 }
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