Bug 14018 - Win32 fails to continue with "winerr 5" (pc register not available) after SigTrap while process paused
Summary: Win32 fails to continue with "winerr 5" (pc register not available) after Sig...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: gdb
Classification: Unclassified
Component: win32 (show other bugs)
Version: 7.4
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2012-04-24 22:45 UTC by Martin
Modified: 2021-09-22 17:04 UTC (History)
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pascal (src and bin) for reproducing (97.54 KB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2012-04-24 22:45 UTC, Martin
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Description Martin 2012-04-24 22:45:20 UTC
Created attachment 6366 [details]
pascal (src and bin) for reproducing

This bug appears to be a regression. It is present it 7.3 and 7.4. But was not in previous 7.x)

On Windows in order to pause a running process for debugging, it is custom to call 
CreateRemoteThread(handle_to_debugged_process, 0,0, GetProcAddress(hMod, 'DebugBreak') ...)

This leads to GDB reporting:
*stopped,reason="signal-received",signal-name="SIGTRAP",signal-meaning="Trace/breakpoint trap",frame=


However if the above happens, while the app is already paused (e.g. after reaching a breakpoint) then the app can not be continued.
This can not always be avoided. It may happen as a race condition, where the breakpoint is hit, just before the signal could be sent.

The first continue will correctly lead to another pause/interrupt reporting the SigTrap.
Trying to continue from this will report 

-exec-continue
&"warning: SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)\n"
^error,msg="PC register is not available"

-exec-continue
&"warning: SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)\n"
^error,msg="PC register is not available"


**** To reproduce (using Free Pascal)  Win 32 / Vista (probably any other too) intel

I have included a helper app (in pascal) to trigger the SigTrap (source and bin).
Compile with:  fpc.exe dbgbrk.pas 

The app to be debugged is test.exe 
compile:   fpc.exe -g test.pas

Run gdb:
   gdb -i mi test.exe

-break-insert test.pas:4
-exec-run

~"Starting program: B:\\dbg\\test.exe \n"
=thread-group-started,id="i1",pid="8372"
=thread-created,id="1",group-id="i1"
~"[New Thread 8372.0x26c4]\n"
....
*stopped,reason="breakpoint-hit",disp="keep",bkptno="1",frame={addr="0x004013f9",func="FOO"

Take the PID reported by gdb (in the example 8372) and run (while the app is paused at the break point)

   dbgbrk.exe 8372


-exec-continue

^running
....
*stopped,reason="signal-received",signal-name="SIGTRAP",signal-meaning="Trace/breakpoint trap",

-exec-continue
^running
....
&"warning: SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)\n"
^error,msg="PC register is not available"


-exec-continue
&"warning: SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)\n"
^error,msg="PC register is not available"
Comment 1 Andre' 2012-11-01 14:39:38 UTC
Also reported for GDB 7.4.1, Windows XP SP3, see https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTCREATORBUG-7840
Comment 2 Orgad Shaneh 2013-09-09 13:27:05 UTC
Still happens with 7.6.1 on Windows 7.
Comment 3 David Schulz 2013-11-21 14:35:38 UTC
Can also be reproduced with the following C++ Code:

#include <windows.h>

int main()
{    
    while (true)
        DebugBreakProcess(GetCurrentProcess());
}

Start gdb:

gdb -ex run <Executable of the code above>.exe

After startup enter:

break main.cpp:6
command
continue
end
handle SIGTRAP nostop
continue

After some lines telling you that the program received a SIGTRAP the following error is shown:
&"warning: SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)\n"
^error,msg="PC register is not available"

The breakpoint is important because SuspendThread is just called when the gdb requests the thread contexts (see gdb/windows-nat.c:thread_rec()). 

The gdb commands and the code above actually emulates the QtCreator which inserts a breakpoint to a running inferior, and this breakpoint is hit directly after it was inserted.
To give you a time line of the QtCreator behavior:
 - everything runs (QtCreator, gdb, inferior)
 - request insert breakpoint
 - interrupt inferior
 - wait for gdb to tell QtCreator it has stopped
 - insert breakpoint
 - tell the gdb to continue execution
 - breakpoint in inferior is hit
 - BOOM: gdb stops with the error message: PC register is not available
 
The actual problem is that the gdb has not the rights to suspend the Thread (winerr 5 == ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED). As the only threads in this process are the main thread and the DebugBreak threads it looks like the gdb has not the rights to suspend the DebugBreak threads in some states (it occures not on every break so it has to be a special thread state). 
A possible Solution could be to check if you have the rights to suspend that thread (should be done anyway according to the documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686345(v=vs.85).aspx).
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Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 19 11:12:19 2014 +0300

    PR gdb/14018 -- avoid "PC register not available" errors.
    
    gdb/windows-nat.c (thread_rec): Don't display a warning when
    SuspendThread fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.  If SuspendThread
    fails for any reason, set th->suspended to -1, so that we don't
    try to resume such a thread.  Also, don't return NULL in these
    cases, to avoid completely ruin the session due to "PC register is
    not available" error.
    (do_windows_fetch_inferior_registers): Check errors in
    GetThreadContext call.
    (windows_continue): Accept an additional argument KILLED; if not
    zero, ignore errors in the SetThreadContext call, since the
    inferior was killed and is shutting down.
    (windows_resume, get_windows_debug_event)
    (windows_create_inferior, windows_mourn_inferior)
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    to adjust to its new calling sequence.

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commit 230109e7ff8ad9b1268d251cba1fa26a24efde64
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 19 11:12:19 2014 +0300

    PR gdb/14018 -- avoid "PC register not available" errors.
    
    gdb/windows-nat.c (thread_rec): Don't display a warning when
    SuspendThread fails with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED.  If SuspendThread
    fails for any reason, set th->suspended to -1, so that we don't
    try to resume such a thread.  Also, don't return NULL in these
    cases, to avoid completely ruin the session due to "PC register is
    not available" error.
    (do_windows_fetch_inferior_registers): Check errors in
    GetThreadContext call.
    (windows_continue): Accept an additional argument KILLED; if not
    zero, ignore errors in the SetThreadContext call, since the
    inferior was killed and is shutting down.
    (windows_resume, get_windows_debug_event)
    (windows_create_inferior, windows_mourn_inferior)
    (windows_kill_inferior): All callers of windows_continue changed
    to adjust to its new calling sequence.

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Summary of changes:
 gdb/ChangeLog     |   19 +++++++++++++++++++
 gdb/windows-nat.c |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Comment 6 Joel Brobecker 2014-04-21 15:40:17 UTC
As per commits.
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