gcore.c revision 1.8
1/* Generate a core file for the inferior process.
2
3   Copyright (C) 2001-2019 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 <fcntl.h>
33#include "regcache.h"
34#include "regset.h"
35#include "gdb_bfd.h"
36#include "readline/tilde.h"
37#include <algorithm>
38#include "common/gdb_unlinker.h"
39#include "common/byte-vector.h"
40
41/* The largest amount of memory to read from the target at once.  We
42   must throttle it to limit the amount of memory used by GDB during
43   generate-core-file for programs with large resident data.  */
44#define MAX_COPY_BYTES (1024 * 1024)
45
46static const char *default_gcore_target (void);
47static enum bfd_architecture default_gcore_arch (void);
48static unsigned long default_gcore_mach (void);
49static int gcore_memory_sections (bfd *);
50
51/* create_gcore_bfd -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
52   Open a new bfd core file for output, and return the handle.  */
53
54gdb_bfd_ref_ptr
55create_gcore_bfd (const char *filename)
56{
57  gdb_bfd_ref_ptr obfd (gdb_bfd_openw (filename, default_gcore_target ()));
58
59  if (obfd == NULL)
60    error (_("Failed to open '%s' for output."), filename);
61  bfd_set_format (obfd.get (), bfd_core);
62  bfd_set_arch_mach (obfd.get (), default_gcore_arch (), default_gcore_mach ());
63  return obfd;
64}
65
66/* write_gcore_file_1 -- do the actual work of write_gcore_file.  */
67
68static void
69write_gcore_file_1 (bfd *obfd)
70{
71  gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> note_data;
72  int note_size = 0;
73  asection *note_sec = NULL;
74
75  /* An external target method must build the notes section.  */
76  /* FIXME: uweigand/2011-10-06: All architectures that support core file
77     generation should be converted to gdbarch_make_corefile_notes; at that
78     point, the target vector method can be removed.  */
79  if (!gdbarch_make_corefile_notes_p (target_gdbarch ()))
80    note_data.reset (target_make_corefile_notes (obfd, &note_size));
81  else
82    note_data.reset (gdbarch_make_corefile_notes (target_gdbarch (), obfd,
83						  &note_size));
84
85  if (note_data == NULL || note_size == 0)
86    error (_("Target does not support core file generation."));
87
88  /* Create the note section.  */
89  note_sec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "note0",
90						 SEC_HAS_CONTENTS
91						 | SEC_READONLY
92						 | SEC_ALLOC);
93  if (note_sec == NULL)
94    error (_("Failed to create 'note' section for corefile: %s"),
95	   bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
96
97  bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, note_sec, 0);
98  bfd_set_section_alignment (obfd, note_sec, 0);
99  bfd_set_section_size (obfd, note_sec, note_size);
100
101  /* Now create the memory/load sections.  */
102  if (gcore_memory_sections (obfd) == 0)
103    error (_("gcore: failed to get corefile memory sections from target."));
104
105  /* Write out the contents of the note section.  */
106  if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, note_sec, note_data.get (), 0,
107				 note_size))
108    warning (_("writing note section (%s)"), bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
109}
110
111/* write_gcore_file -- helper for gcore_command (exported).
112   Compose and write the corefile data to the core file.  */
113
114void
115write_gcore_file (bfd *obfd)
116{
117  struct gdb_exception except = exception_none;
118
119  target_prepare_to_generate_core ();
120
121  TRY
122    {
123      write_gcore_file_1 (obfd);
124    }
125  CATCH (e, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
126    {
127      except = e;
128    }
129  END_CATCH
130
131  target_done_generating_core ();
132
133  if (except.reason < 0)
134    throw_exception (except);
135}
136
137/* gcore_command -- implements the 'gcore' command.
138   Generate a core file from the inferior process.  */
139
140static void
141gcore_command (const char *args, int from_tty)
142{
143  gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> corefilename;
144
145  /* No use generating a corefile without a target process.  */
146  if (!target_has_execution)
147    noprocess ();
148
149  if (args && *args)
150    corefilename.reset (tilde_expand (args));
151  else
152    {
153      /* Default corefile name is "core.PID".  */
154      corefilename.reset (xstrprintf ("core.%d", inferior_ptid.pid ()));
155    }
156
157  if (info_verbose)
158    fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout,
159		      "Opening corefile '%s' for output.\n",
160		      corefilename.get ());
161
162  /* Open the output file.  */
163  gdb_bfd_ref_ptr obfd (create_gcore_bfd (corefilename.get ()));
164
165  /* Arrange to unlink the file on failure.  */
166  gdb::unlinker unlink_file (corefilename.get ());
167
168  /* Call worker function.  */
169  write_gcore_file (obfd.get ());
170
171  /* Succeeded.  */
172  unlink_file.keep ();
173
174  fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Saved corefile %s\n", corefilename.get ());
175}
176
177static unsigned long
178default_gcore_mach (void)
179{
180#if 1	/* See if this even matters...  */
181  return 0;
182#else
183
184  const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
185
186  if (bfdarch != NULL)
187    return bfdarch->mach;
188  if (exec_bfd == NULL)
189    error (_("Can't find default bfd machine type (need execfile)."));
190
191  return bfd_get_mach (exec_bfd);
192#endif /* 1 */
193}
194
195static enum bfd_architecture
196default_gcore_arch (void)
197{
198  const struct bfd_arch_info *bfdarch = gdbarch_bfd_arch_info (target_gdbarch ());
199
200  if (bfdarch != NULL)
201    return bfdarch->arch;
202  if (exec_bfd == NULL)
203    error (_("Can't find bfd architecture for corefile (need execfile)."));
204
205  return bfd_get_arch (exec_bfd);
206}
207
208static const char *
209default_gcore_target (void)
210{
211  /* The gdbarch may define a target to use for core files.  */
212  if (gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target_p (target_gdbarch ()))
213    return gdbarch_gcore_bfd_target (target_gdbarch ());
214
215  /* Otherwise, try to fall back to the exec_bfd target.  This will probably
216     not work for non-ELF targets.  */
217  if (exec_bfd == NULL)
218    return NULL;
219  else
220    return bfd_get_target (exec_bfd);
221}
222
223/* Derive a reasonable stack segment by unwinding the target stack,
224   and store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.  Return non-zero if
225   successful.  */
226
227static int
228derive_stack_segment (bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
229{
230  struct frame_info *fi, *tmp_fi;
231
232  gdb_assert (bottom);
233  gdb_assert (top);
234
235  /* Can't succeed without stack and registers.  */
236  if (!target_has_stack || !target_has_registers)
237    return 0;
238
239  /* Can't succeed without current frame.  */
240  fi = get_current_frame ();
241  if (fi == NULL)
242    return 0;
243
244  /* Save frame pointer of TOS frame.  */
245  *top = get_frame_base (fi);
246  /* If current stack pointer is more "inner", use that instead.  */
247  if (gdbarch_inner_than (get_frame_arch (fi), get_frame_sp (fi), *top))
248    *top = get_frame_sp (fi);
249
250  /* Find prev-most frame.  */
251  while ((tmp_fi = get_prev_frame (fi)) != NULL)
252    fi = tmp_fi;
253
254  /* Save frame pointer of prev-most frame.  */
255  *bottom = get_frame_base (fi);
256
257  /* Now canonicalize their order, so that BOTTOM is a lower address
258     (as opposed to a lower stack frame).  */
259  if (*bottom > *top)
260    {
261      bfd_vma tmp_vma;
262
263      tmp_vma = *top;
264      *top = *bottom;
265      *bottom = tmp_vma;
266    }
267
268  return 1;
269}
270
271/* call_target_sbrk --
272   helper function for derive_heap_segment.  */
273
274static bfd_vma
275call_target_sbrk (int sbrk_arg)
276{
277  struct objfile *sbrk_objf;
278  struct gdbarch *gdbarch;
279  bfd_vma top_of_heap;
280  struct value *target_sbrk_arg;
281  struct value *sbrk_fn, *ret;
282  bfd_vma tmp;
283
284  if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
285    {
286      sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
287      if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
288	return (bfd_vma) 0;
289    }
290  else if (lookup_minimal_symbol ("_sbrk", NULL, NULL).minsym != NULL)
291    {
292      sbrk_fn = find_function_in_inferior ("_sbrk", &sbrk_objf);
293      if (sbrk_fn == NULL)
294	return (bfd_vma) 0;
295    }
296  else
297    return (bfd_vma) 0;
298
299  gdbarch = get_objfile_arch (sbrk_objf);
300  target_sbrk_arg = value_from_longest (builtin_type (gdbarch)->builtin_int,
301					sbrk_arg);
302  gdb_assert (target_sbrk_arg);
303  ret = call_function_by_hand (sbrk_fn, NULL, target_sbrk_arg);
304  if (ret == NULL)
305    return (bfd_vma) 0;
306
307  tmp = value_as_long (ret);
308  if ((LONGEST) tmp <= 0 || (LONGEST) tmp == 0xffffffff)
309    return (bfd_vma) 0;
310
311  top_of_heap = tmp;
312  return top_of_heap;
313}
314
315/* Derive a reasonable heap segment for ABFD by looking at sbrk and
316   the static data sections.  Store its limits in *BOTTOM and *TOP.
317   Return non-zero if successful.  */
318
319static int
320derive_heap_segment (bfd *abfd, bfd_vma *bottom, bfd_vma *top)
321{
322  bfd_vma top_of_data_memory = 0;
323  bfd_vma top_of_heap = 0;
324  bfd_size_type sec_size;
325  bfd_vma sec_vaddr;
326  asection *sec;
327
328  gdb_assert (bottom);
329  gdb_assert (top);
330
331  /* This function depends on being able to call a function in the
332     inferior.  */
333  if (!target_has_execution)
334    return 0;
335
336  /* The following code assumes that the link map is arranged as
337     follows (low to high addresses):
338
339     ---------------------------------
340     | text sections                 |
341     ---------------------------------
342     | data sections (including bss) |
343     ---------------------------------
344     | heap                          |
345     --------------------------------- */
346
347  for (sec = abfd->sections; sec; sec = sec->next)
348    {
349      if (bfd_get_section_flags (abfd, sec) & SEC_DATA
350	  || strcmp (".bss", bfd_section_name (abfd, sec)) == 0)
351	{
352	  sec_vaddr = bfd_get_section_vma (abfd, sec);
353	  sec_size = bfd_get_section_size (sec);
354	  if (sec_vaddr + sec_size > top_of_data_memory)
355	    top_of_data_memory = sec_vaddr + sec_size;
356	}
357    }
358
359  top_of_heap = call_target_sbrk (0);
360  if (top_of_heap == (bfd_vma) 0)
361    return 0;
362
363  /* Return results.  */
364  if (top_of_heap > top_of_data_memory)
365    {
366      *bottom = top_of_data_memory;
367      *top = top_of_heap;
368      return 1;
369    }
370
371  /* No additional heap space needs to be saved.  */
372  return 0;
373}
374
375static void
376make_output_phdrs (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
377{
378  int p_flags = 0;
379  int p_type = 0;
380
381  /* FIXME: these constants may only be applicable for ELF.  */
382  if (startswith (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "load"))
383    p_type = PT_LOAD;
384  else if (startswith (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "note"))
385    p_type = PT_NOTE;
386  else
387    p_type = PT_NULL;
388
389  p_flags |= PF_R;	/* Segment is readable.  */
390  if (!(bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_READONLY))
391    p_flags |= PF_W;	/* Segment is writable.  */
392  if (bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_CODE)
393    p_flags |= PF_X;	/* Segment is executable.  */
394
395  bfd_record_phdr (obfd, p_type, 1, p_flags, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, &osec);
396}
397
398/* find_memory_region_ftype implementation.  DATA is 'bfd *' for the core file
399   GDB is creating.  */
400
401static int
402gcore_create_callback (CORE_ADDR vaddr, unsigned long size, int read,
403		       int write, int exec, int modified, void *data)
404{
405  bfd *obfd = (bfd *) data;
406  asection *osec;
407  flagword flags = SEC_ALLOC | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS | SEC_LOAD;
408
409  /* If the memory segment has no permissions set, ignore it, otherwise
410     when we later try to access it for read/write, we'll get an error
411     or jam the kernel.  */
412  if (read == 0 && write == 0 && exec == 0 && modified == 0)
413    {
414      if (info_verbose)
415        {
416          fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Ignore segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
417                            plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
418        }
419
420      return 0;
421    }
422
423  if (write == 0 && modified == 0 && !solib_keep_data_in_core (vaddr, size))
424    {
425      /* See if this region of memory lies inside a known file on disk.
426	 If so, we can avoid copying its contents by clearing SEC_LOAD.  */
427      struct obj_section *objsec;
428
429      for (objfile *objfile : current_program_space->objfiles ())
430	ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
431	  {
432	    bfd *abfd = objfile->obfd;
433	    asection *asec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
434	    bfd_vma align = (bfd_vma) 1 << bfd_get_section_alignment (abfd,
435								      asec);
436	    bfd_vma start = obj_section_addr (objsec) & -align;
437	    bfd_vma end = (obj_section_endaddr (objsec) + align - 1) & -align;
438
439	    /* Match if either the entire memory region lies inside the
440	       section (i.e. a mapping covering some pages of a large
441	       segment) or the entire section lies inside the memory region
442	       (i.e. a mapping covering multiple small sections).
443
444	       This BFD was synthesized from reading target memory,
445	       we don't want to omit that.  */
446	    if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink == NULL
447		&& ((vaddr >= start && vaddr + size <= end)
448		    || (start >= vaddr && end <= vaddr + size))
449		&& !(bfd_get_file_flags (abfd) & BFD_IN_MEMORY))
450	      {
451		flags &= ~(SEC_LOAD | SEC_HAS_CONTENTS);
452		goto keep;	/* Break out of two nested for loops.  */
453	      }
454	  }
455
456    keep:;
457    }
458
459  if (write == 0)
460    flags |= SEC_READONLY;
461
462  if (exec)
463    flags |= SEC_CODE;
464  else
465    flags |= SEC_DATA;
466
467  osec = bfd_make_section_anyway_with_flags (obfd, "load", flags);
468  if (osec == NULL)
469    {
470      warning (_("Couldn't make gcore segment: %s"),
471	       bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
472      return 1;
473    }
474
475  if (info_verbose)
476    {
477      fprintf_filtered (gdb_stdout, "Save segment, %s bytes at %s\n",
478			plongest (size), paddress (target_gdbarch (), vaddr));
479    }
480
481  bfd_set_section_size (obfd, osec, size);
482  bfd_set_section_vma (obfd, osec, vaddr);
483  bfd_section_lma (obfd, osec) = 0; /* ??? bfd_set_section_lma?  */
484  return 0;
485}
486
487int
488objfile_find_memory_regions (struct target_ops *self,
489			     find_memory_region_ftype func, void *obfd)
490{
491  /* Use objfile data to create memory sections.  */
492  struct obj_section *objsec;
493  bfd_vma temp_bottom, temp_top;
494
495  /* Call callback function for each objfile section.  */
496  for (objfile *objfile : current_program_space->objfiles ())
497    ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile, objsec)
498      {
499	bfd *ibfd = objfile->obfd;
500	asection *isec = objsec->the_bfd_section;
501	flagword flags = bfd_get_section_flags (ibfd, isec);
502
503	/* Separate debug info files are irrelevant for gcore.  */
504	if (objfile->separate_debug_objfile_backlink != NULL)
505	  continue;
506
507	if ((flags & SEC_ALLOC) || (flags & SEC_LOAD))
508	  {
509	    int size = bfd_section_size (ibfd, isec);
510	    int ret;
511
512	    ret = (*func) (obj_section_addr (objsec), size,
513			   1, /* All sections will be readable.  */
514			   (flags & SEC_READONLY) == 0, /* Writable.  */
515			   (flags & SEC_CODE) != 0, /* Executable.  */
516			   1, /* MODIFIED is unknown, pass it as true.  */
517			   obfd);
518	    if (ret != 0)
519	      return ret;
520	  }
521      }
522
523  /* Make a stack segment.  */
524  if (derive_stack_segment (&temp_bottom, &temp_top))
525    (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
526	     1, /* Stack section will be readable.  */
527	     1, /* Stack section will be writable.  */
528	     0, /* Stack section will not be executable.  */
529	     1, /* Stack section will be modified.  */
530	     obfd);
531
532  /* Make a heap segment.  */
533  if (derive_heap_segment (exec_bfd, &temp_bottom, &temp_top))
534    (*func) (temp_bottom, temp_top - temp_bottom,
535	     1, /* Heap section will be readable.  */
536	     1, /* Heap section will be writable.  */
537	     0, /* Heap section will not be executable.  */
538	     1, /* Heap section will be modified.  */
539	     obfd);
540
541  return 0;
542}
543
544static void
545gcore_copy_callback (bfd *obfd, asection *osec, void *ignored)
546{
547  bfd_size_type size, total_size = bfd_section_size (obfd, osec);
548  file_ptr offset = 0;
549
550  /* Read-only sections are marked; we don't have to copy their contents.  */
551  if ((bfd_get_section_flags (obfd, osec) & SEC_LOAD) == 0)
552    return;
553
554  /* Only interested in "load" sections.  */
555  if (!startswith (bfd_section_name (obfd, osec), "load"))
556    return;
557
558  size = std::min (total_size, (bfd_size_type) MAX_COPY_BYTES);
559  gdb::byte_vector memhunk (size);
560
561  while (total_size > 0)
562    {
563      if (size > total_size)
564	size = total_size;
565
566      if (target_read_memory (bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec) + offset,
567			      memhunk.data (), size) != 0)
568	{
569	  warning (_("Memory read failed for corefile "
570		     "section, %s bytes at %s."),
571		   plongest (size),
572		   paddress (target_gdbarch (), bfd_section_vma (obfd, osec)));
573	  break;
574	}
575      if (!bfd_set_section_contents (obfd, osec, memhunk.data (),
576				     offset, size))
577	{
578	  warning (_("Failed to write corefile contents (%s)."),
579		   bfd_errmsg (bfd_get_error ()));
580	  break;
581	}
582
583      total_size -= size;
584      offset += size;
585    }
586}
587
588static int
589gcore_memory_sections (bfd *obfd)
590{
591  /* Try gdbarch method first, then fall back to target method.  */
592  if (!gdbarch_find_memory_regions_p (target_gdbarch ())
593      || gdbarch_find_memory_regions (target_gdbarch (),
594				      gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
595    {
596      if (target_find_memory_regions (gcore_create_callback, obfd) != 0)
597	return 0;			/* FIXME: error return/msg?  */
598    }
599
600  /* Record phdrs for section-to-segment mapping.  */
601  bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, make_output_phdrs, NULL);
602
603  /* Copy memory region contents.  */
604  bfd_map_over_sections (obfd, gcore_copy_callback, NULL);
605
606  return 1;
607}
608
609void
610_initialize_gcore (void)
611{
612  add_com ("generate-core-file", class_files, gcore_command, _("\
613Save a core file with the current state of the debugged process.\n\
614Usage: generate-core-file [FILENAME]\n\
615Argument is optional filename.  Default filename is 'core.PROCESS_ID'."));
616
617  add_com_alias ("gcore", "generate-core-file", class_files, 1);
618}
619