On Ubuntu systems, ptrace_scoping could forbid a process to ptrace another.
This ptrace scoping was already handled for vgdb by using SET_PTRACER
(the valgrind process must be ptraced by vgdb when it is blocked
in a syscall).
set_ptracer is however also needed when the old mechanism --db-attach=yes
is used.
The following changes are done:
* make the set_ptracer logic callable outside gdbserver
* make set_ptracer less restrictive (i.e. allow all
processes of the user to ptrace). This removes a limitation for vgdb.
* call the set_ptracer in the child launched for --db-attach=yes
* cleaned up the ptrace scope restriction message and doc as vgdb
is now working properly by default, even with ptrace_scope enabled.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13384
With rev 13368, Valgrind obeys PT_GNU_STACK making the stack not
executable. This makes inferior function call with GDB >= 7.5 failing,
as GDB places a breakpoint on the stack, which must be decoded
and translated by Valgrind to have the inferior function call properly done.
=> introduce a special case in the conditions to allow translation
when a segment is not executable but is readable and there is a
breakpoint at the address.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13381
In a big applications, some recursive algorithms have created
hundreds of thousands of stacktraces, taking a lot of memory.
Option --merge-recursive-frames=<number> tells Valgrind to
detect and merge (collapse) recursive calls when recording stack traces.
The value is changeable using the monitor command
'v.set merge-recursive-frames'.
Also, this provides a new client request: VALGRIND_MONITOR_COMMAND
allowing to execute a gdbsrv monitor command from the client
program.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13246
patch from Mark Wielaard.
(with small modifications).
Also clarified some comments related to the resume reply.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13052
These holes are not initialized,
and writing these uninitialised bytes to the mapped file
causes an error being reported when running Valgrind
inside Valgrind. Having no holes avoid having this error.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12397
and TMPDIR which was introduced when fixing bugzilla #267020.
Factor out VG_(tmpdir). New function VG_(vgdb_path_prefix).
Partially fixes bugzilla #280757.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12063
--vgdb-error=N is specified, print a bit of text telling the user the
magic commands to give GDB in order to attach to the process.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11822
ensure proper cleanup of gdbsrv FIFOs/shmem files with untraced fork/exec
* syswrap-{generic|darwin|aix5}.c : in PRE(sys_execve) : terminate gdbserver
* pub_core_gdbserver.h and m_gdbserver.c : add VG_(gdbserver_prerun_action),
factorising the actions to do by gdbserver at "startup" (i.e. a traced
fork or a traced exec).
* scheduler.c : implement startup action using VG_(gdbserver_prerun_action)
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11771
