Subtle problems with "info sharedlibrary" on MS-Windows

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Tue Apr 6 13:16:19 GMT 2021


> Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 20:51:53 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17659
> 
> That bug describes the same problem and provides a patch.  The bug was
> closed without applying the because the problem was deemed resolved by
> the addition of windows_add_all_dlls function to windows-nat.c.
> 
> However, AFAIU windows_add_all_dlls solves the problem only for DLLs
> loaded at startup of the debuggee.  It cannot solve the problem of
> DLLs loaded dynamically by the debuggee at run time.  Which is what
> happens in Emacs built with native-compilation capability: it compiles
> Lisp into shared libraries, and loads those shared libraries as
> needed.
> 
> The problem clearly shows itself if you enable debugevents: GDB
> reports some of the LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT's without announcing the name
> of the loaded DLL.  Later you can see that the DLL is not in the list
> shown by "info shared", although Process Explorer shows that DLL as
> being loaded by the debuggee.
> 
> So I've reopened that bug, and I hope the patch there can be applied
> to GDB some time soon.

Here's a patch I propose, which completely solves the issue I
described, and is IMO less complex than the code proposed in Bugzilla
(it slightly refactors the existing code in windows_add_all_dlls).

OK to commit to master (with a suitable ChangeLog entry)?

--- gdb/windows-nat.c~0	2021-03-25 03:47:10.000000000 +0200
+++ gdb/windows-nat.c	2021-04-06 16:11:14.853125000 +0300
@@ -869,6 +869,8 @@ windows_make_so (const char *name, LPVOI
   return so;
 }
 
+static bool windows_add_dll (LPVOID);
+
 /* See nat/windows-nat.h.  */
 
 void
@@ -884,12 +886,21 @@ windows_nat::handle_load_dll ()
      (source: MSDN LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_INFO structure).  */
   dll_name = get_image_name (current_process_handle,
 			     event->lpImageName, event->fUnicode);
+  /* If the DLL name could not be gleaned via lpImageName, try harder
+     by enumerating all the DLLs loaded into the inferior, looking for
+     one that is loaded at base address = lpBaseOfDll. */
+  if (dll_name)
+    {
+
+      solib_end->next = windows_make_so (dll_name, event->lpBaseOfDll);
+      solib_end = solib_end->next;
+    }
+  else if (windows_add_dll (event->lpBaseOfDll))
+    dll_name = solib_end->so_name;
+
   if (!dll_name)
     return;
 
-  solib_end->next = windows_make_so (dll_name, event->lpBaseOfDll);
-  solib_end = solib_end->next;
-
   lm_info_windows *li = (lm_info_windows *) solib_end->lm_info;
 
   DEBUG_EVENTS ("Loading dll \"%s\" at %s.", solib_end->so_name,
@@ -1899,6 +1910,19 @@ windows_nat_target::wait (ptid_t ptid, s
 static void
 windows_add_all_dlls (void)
 {
+  windows_add_dll (NULL);
+}
+
+/* Iterate over all DLLs currently mapped by our inferior, looking for
+   a DLL which is loaded at LOAD_ADDR.  If found, add the DLL to our
+   list of solibs and return non-zero; otherwise do nothing and return
+   zero.  LOAD_ADDR NULL means add all DLLs to the list of solibs;
+   this is used when the inferior finishes its initialization, and all
+   the DLLs it statically depends on are presumed loaded.  */
+
+static bool
+windows_add_dll (LPVOID load_addr)
+{
   HMODULE dummy_hmodule;
   DWORD cb_needed;
   HMODULE *hmodules;
@@ -1910,18 +1934,18 @@ windows_add_all_dlls (void)
       if (EnumProcessModulesEx (current_process_handle, &dummy_hmodule,
 				sizeof (HMODULE), &cb_needed,
 				LIST_MODULES_32BIT) == 0)
-	return;
+	return false;
     }
   else
 #endif
     {
       if (EnumProcessModules (current_process_handle, &dummy_hmodule,
 			      sizeof (HMODULE), &cb_needed) == 0)
-	return;
+	return false;
     }
 
   if (cb_needed < 1)
-    return;
+    return false;
 
   hmodules = (HMODULE *) alloca (cb_needed);
 #ifdef __x86_64__
@@ -1930,14 +1954,14 @@ windows_add_all_dlls (void)
       if (EnumProcessModulesEx (current_process_handle, hmodules,
 				cb_needed, &cb_needed,
 				LIST_MODULES_32BIT) == 0)
-	return;
+	return false;
     }
   else
 #endif
     {
       if (EnumProcessModules (current_process_handle, hmodules,
 			      cb_needed, &cb_needed) == 0)
-	return;
+	return false;
     }
 
   char system_dir[__PMAX];
@@ -1983,6 +2007,7 @@ windows_add_all_dlls (void)
       if (GetModuleInformation (current_process_handle, hmodules[i],
 				&mi, sizeof (mi)) == 0)
 	continue;
+
       if (GetModuleFileNameEx (current_process_handle, hmodules[i],
 			       dll_name, sizeof (dll_name)) == 0)
 	continue;
@@ -2005,9 +2030,15 @@ windows_add_all_dlls (void)
 	  name = syswow_dll_path.c_str();
 	}
 
-      solib_end->next = windows_make_so (name, mi.lpBaseOfDll);
-      solib_end = solib_end->next;
+      if (!(load_addr && mi.lpBaseOfDll != load_addr))
+	{
+	  solib_end->next = windows_make_so (name, mi.lpBaseOfDll);
+	  solib_end = solib_end->next;
+	  if (load_addr)
+	    return true;
+	}
     }
+  return false;
 }
 
 void



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