Loading a core dump that was either generated on a system running pristine glibc master, or on a Fedora/RHEL system with LD_DEBUG=unused set in the environment results in the following warning: (gdb) core-file corefile.core^M [New LWP 2362]^M warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.^M Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?^M Core was generated by `build-gdb/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/corefile/'.^M ... This is just like PR14466 - unable to load symbols for linux-gate.so.1 (vdso), except that PR only fixed the live inferior case. I.e., the core files case still warns.
The master branch has been updated by Pedro Alves <palves@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=6bb90213cb7b8e2f3be20f2e46f11f57f0c9ce55 commit 6bb90213cb7b8e2f3be20f2e46f11f57f0c9ce55 Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Date: Mon Aug 22 20:05:09 2016 +0100 Fix PR gdb/20505 - Make vDSO detection work with core files Loading a core dump that was either generated on a system running pristine glibc master, or on a Fedora/RHEL system with LD_DEBUG=unused set in the environment, solib-svr4.c:svr4_current_sos fails to filter out the vDSO, resulting in: (gdb) core-file corefile.core^M [New LWP 2362]^M warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.^M Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?^M Core was generated by `build-gdb/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/corefile/'.^M ... The problem is that gdbarch_vsyscall_range does not support core inferiors at all. When live debugging, we're finding the vDSO's start address with auxv/AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, and then we find the vDSO's size by look for the corresponding mapping, by parsing /proc/PID/maps. When debugging a core dump, we can also determine the starting address from auxv/AT_SYSINFO_EHDR. However, we obviously can't read the core mappings out of the host's /proc. But we can instead look for a corresponding load segment in the core's bfd. gdb/ChangeLog: 2016-08-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/20505 * linux-tdep.c (linux_vsyscall_range_raw): For core inferiors, find the vDSO's start address with AT_SYSINFO_EHDR too, and determine the vDSO's size by finding the PT_LOAD segment that matches AT_SYSINFO_EHDR. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2016-08-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/20505 * gdb.base/vdso-warning.exp: Test core dumps too. Use with_test_prefix. Factor out bits to ... (test_no_vdso): ... this new procedure.
The gdb-7.12-branch branch has been updated by Pedro Alves <palves@sourceware.org>: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=601a2a8f639f9ef6dab86118a87fa67861f2091e commit 601a2a8f639f9ef6dab86118a87fa67861f2091e Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> Date: Mon Aug 22 20:22:35 2016 +0100 Fix PR gdb/20505 - Make vDSO detection work with core files Loading a core dump that was either generated on a system running pristine glibc master, or on a Fedora/RHEL system with LD_DEBUG=unused set in the environment, solib-svr4.c:svr4_current_sos fails to filter out the vDSO, resulting in: (gdb) core-file corefile.core^M [New LWP 2362]^M warning: Could not load shared library symbols for linux-vdso.so.1.^M Do you need "set solib-search-path" or "set sysroot"?^M Core was generated by `build-gdb/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/corefile/'.^M ... The problem is that gdbarch_vsyscall_range does not support core inferiors at all. When live debugging, we're finding the vDSO's start address with auxv/AT_SYSINFO_EHDR, and then we find the vDSO's size by look for the corresponding mapping, by parsing /proc/PID/maps. When debugging a core dump, we can also determine the starting address from auxv/AT_SYSINFO_EHDR. However, we obviously can't read the core mappings out of the host's /proc. But we can instead look for a corresponding load segment in the core's bfd. gdb/ChangeLog: 2016-08-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/20505 * linux-tdep.c (linux_vsyscall_range_raw): For core inferiors, find the vDSO's start address with AT_SYSINFO_EHDR too, and determine the vDSO's size by finding the PT_LOAD segment that matches AT_SYSINFO_EHDR. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: 2016-08-22 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> PR gdb/20505 * gdb.base/vdso-warning.exp: Test core dumps too. Use with_test_prefix. Factor out bits to ... (test_no_vdso): ... this new procedure.
Fixed.