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
Necessary changes to Valgrind to support MIPS64LE on Linux.
Minor cleanup/style changes embedded in the patch as well.
The change corresponds to r2687 in VEX.
Patch written by Dejan Jevtic and Petar Jovanovic.
More information about this issue:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313267
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13292
* use normal 'char' (when possible) rather than 'unsigned char'
* fix bug in case a character val >= 128 is given in a -c command
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13098
(patch from Petar Jovanovic).
The mips specific code of vgdb.c was storing the arguments
at wrong places in the ptrace setreg. This caused the blocked syscall(s)
to return with an error rather than to be properly restarted.
With this commit, the gdbsrv tests are not blocking anymore
with Valgrind mips32 running on mips64 GNU/Linux.
vgdb is believed to be functional, even if process is blocked in a syscall.
The following tests are still failing
gdbserver_tests/mcbreak (stdout)
gdbserver_tests/mcbreak (stdoutB)
gdbserver_tests/mcbreak (stderrB)
gdbserver_tests/mcsignopass (stderr)
gdbserver_tests/mcsignopass (stdoutB)
gdbserver_tests/mcsigpass (stderr)
gdbserver_tests/mcsigpass (stdoutB)
gdbserver_tests/nlcontrolc (stdoutB)
gdbserver_tests/nlsigvgdb (stderr)
gdbserver_tests/nlsigvgdb (stderrB)
Of the above, nlsigvgdb failure is still strange.
Others looks like "normal" differences due e.g. to mips specific gdb
behaviour and/or none/tests/faultstatus (re-used in gdbsrv tests)
behaving differently on mips.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12881
* use PBUFSIZ+1 for buffers reading characters from gdbserver:
vgdb reads up to PBUFSIZ characters from gdbserver.
If vgdb receives a burst of packet from Valgrind gdbserver, PBUFSIZ
characters can be read. The tracing code adds a trailing \0 to
this buffer => to avoid buffer overrun, the buffers are dimensionned
with PBUFSIZ+1.
* use read_buf in function read_char, rather than directly calling read.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12319
Those are obtained by looking at some commonly defined environment
variables.
That should help with problems where /tmp is shared or process IDs get
recycled. We had some intermittent nightly build issues because of that.
Partial fix for bugzilla #280757.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12071
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
Android. Making that work will require a bit of extra effort due to
minor glibc-vs-bionic differences.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11885
--cmd-time-out
* changed prefixes of Valgrind core monitor commands from vg. to v.
* removed prefixes of Tool monitor commands
* memcheck leak_check 'leakpossible' arg renamed to 'possibleleak'
* memcheck make_memory 'ifaddressabledefined' arg renamed to
'Definedifaddressable'
(with uppercase D to avoid confusion with 'defined' arg).
* vgdb options
- Some doc updates : more logical option order documentation,
specify 'standalone' for options aimed at standalone usage.
- added option --cmd-time-out for standalone vgdb
(comment of Josef Weindendorfer, needed to interface with a callgrind GUI)
* updated tests according to the above.
* updated documentation according to the above.
* some additional minor doc fixes/clarifications
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be). Bug 214909
comment 111.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11844
--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
Fix some tests on ppc-debian6,s390x + handled Nick Nethercote, Josef
Weidendorfer comments
* improved testing & related doc
- added option --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=yes to mcsig(no)pass.vgtest
+ updated manual-core.xml
- cleanup some comments in *.vgtest
- modified filter_gdb and filter_memcheck_monitor to
handle specific ppc/debian6.0 mcsig(no)pass output
handle specific s390x 'missing debug info'
- added more information in README_DEVELOPPERS on how to
investigate failing gdbserver tests.
* handled Nick Nethercote comment:
Replaced kludgy ms.snapshot detailed
by ms.detailed_snaphot
Updated documentation and test.
* handled Josef Weindendorfer comments:
- do not report an error if ptrace_scope file can't be read.
Instead, a debug trace is done if -d (debug) option given
- added an option -l to give the list of active Valgrind
gdbserver. Useful a.o. to support callgrind_control.
Updated documentation
- added ref. to vgdb help in the vgdb --help message
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11770
fd leak in vgdb.c
break missing in valgrind-low-s390x.c
* use option --vgdb=full for the tests mcsigpass.vgtest and mcsignopass.vgtest
This might improve these tests on ppc32/debian 6.0
* added a paragraph in gdbserver_tests/README_DEVELOPPERS to indicate
how to report problems about failing gdbserver tests.
(bug 214909 comment 71, Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11748
on various platforms:
* In all gdbserver_tests using gdb:
Made a more general way to remove the initial start message.
* tests using threads burning cpu modified to have only 1 thread.
This makes them independent of the scheduler fairness.
* filter_gdb and filter_vgdb enhanced to anonymise
some debian 6.0/ppc specific things
some s390x/gdb 7.0, gdb 7.1 specific things
* vgdb.c: added an #include <linux/ptrace.h> to fix compilation
on s390x fedora and suse. (Christian Boerntrager)
* fixed a bug in valgrind-low.c debug log :
when a register size is 0, its image cannot be output (and register
should not be transferred).
* added a parameter --keep-unfiltered to vg_regtest.in
This will make it easier to update filter_gdb:
in case gdbserver_tests are failing due to "artificial"
differences to be filtered, re-run the tests using:
perl tests/vg_regtest --keep-unfiltered gdbserver_tests
Then a tar file with all the *.out in gdbserver_tests
will allow me to better/faster update the filter_gdb.
* made a better detection of a working PTRACE_GETREGS at compile time
and/or at run-time.
This is the patch on bug 214909 comment 69.
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11740
