[PATCHv3 2/5] gdb: parse and set the inferior environment from core files
Andrew Burgess
aburgess@redhat.com
Tue Oct 29 14:08:26 GMT 2024
Extend the core file context parsing mechanism added in the previous
commit to also store the environment parsed from the core file.
This environment can then be injected into the inferior object.
The benefit of this is that when examining a core file in GDB, the
'show environment' command will now show the environment extracted
from a core file.
Consider this example:
$ env -i GDB_TEST_VAR=FOO ./gen-core
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ gdb -c ./core.1669829
...
[New LWP 1669829]
Core was generated by `./gen-core'.
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0 0x0000000000401111 in ?? ()
(gdb) show environment
GDB_TEST_VAR=foo
(gdb)
There's a new test for this functionality.
---
gdb/arch-utils.c | 26 ++++++++
gdb/arch-utils.h | 13 +++-
gdb/corelow.c | 3 +
gdb/linux-tdep.c | 6 +-
.../gdb.base/corefile-exec-context.exp | 63 +++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/arch-utils.c b/gdb/arch-utils.c
index 6ffa4109765..567dc87d9dd 100644
--- a/gdb/arch-utils.c
+++ b/gdb/arch-utils.c
@@ -1499,6 +1499,32 @@ gdbarch_initialized_p (gdbarch *arch)
return arch->initialized_p;
}
+/* See arch-utils.h. */
+
+gdb_environ
+core_file_exec_context::environment () const
+{
+ gdb_environ e;
+
+ for (const auto &entry : m_environment)
+ {
+ char *eq = strchr (entry.get (), '=');
+
+ /* If there's no '=' character, then skip this entry. */
+ if (eq == nullptr)
+ continue;
+
+ const char *value = eq + 1;
+ const char *var = entry.get ();
+
+ *eq = '\0';
+ e.set (var, value);
+ *eq = '=';
+ }
+
+ return e;
+}
+
void _initialize_gdbarch_utils ();
void
_initialize_gdbarch_utils ()
diff --git a/gdb/arch-utils.h b/gdb/arch-utils.h
index 8d9f1625bdd..1c33bfb4704 100644
--- a/gdb/arch-utils.h
+++ b/gdb/arch-utils.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#define ARCH_UTILS_H
#include "gdbarch.h"
+#include "gdbsupport/environ.h"
class frame_info_ptr;
struct minimal_symbol;
@@ -88,9 +89,11 @@ struct core_file_exec_context
found but not ARGV then use the no-argument constructor to create an
empty context object. */
core_file_exec_context (gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> exec_name,
- std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> argv)
+ std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> argv,
+ std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> envp)
: m_exec_name (std::move (exec_name)),
- m_arguments (std::move (argv))
+ m_arguments (std::move (argv)),
+ m_environment (std::move (envp))
{
gdb_assert (m_exec_name != nullptr);
}
@@ -115,6 +118,9 @@ struct core_file_exec_context
const std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> &args () const
{ return m_arguments; }
+ /* Return the environment variables from this context. */
+ gdb_environ environment () const;
+
private:
/* The executable filename as reported in the core file. Can be nullptr
@@ -124,6 +130,9 @@ struct core_file_exec_context
/* List of arguments. Doesn't include argv[0] which is the executable
name, for this look at m_exec_name field. */
std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> m_arguments;
+
+ /* List of environment strings. */
+ std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> m_environment;
};
/* Default implementation of gdbarch_displaced_hw_singlestep. */
diff --git a/gdb/corelow.c b/gdb/corelow.c
index 5cc11d71b7b..a0129f84b1c 100644
--- a/gdb/corelow.c
+++ b/gdb/corelow.c
@@ -1014,6 +1014,9 @@ core_target_open (const char *arg, int from_tty)
argv.push_back (a.get ());
gdb::array_view<char * const> view (argv.data (), argv.size ());
current_inferior ()->set_args (view);
+
+ /* And now copy the environment. */
+ current_inferior ()->environment = ctx.environment ();
}
else
{
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.c b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
index 0c81bd72de8..e89bda9af13 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
@@ -2074,8 +2074,7 @@ linux_corefile_parse_exec_context_1 (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, bfd *cbfd)
be pointing at the first environment string. */
ptr += ptr_bytes;
- /* Parse the environment strings. Nothing is done with this yet, but
- will be in a later commit. */
+ /* Parse the environment strings. */
std::vector<gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>> environment;
while ((v = deref (ptr)) != 0)
{
@@ -2092,7 +2091,8 @@ linux_corefile_parse_exec_context_1 (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, bfd *cbfd)
return {};
return core_file_exec_context (std::move (execfn),
- std::move (arguments));
+ std::move (arguments),
+ std::move (environment));
}
/* Parse and return execution context details from core file CBFD. */
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile-exec-context.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile-exec-context.exp
index b18a8104779..ac97754fe71 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile-exec-context.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile-exec-context.exp
@@ -100,3 +100,66 @@ gdb_test_multiple "core-file $corefile_2" "load core file with args" {
# Also, the argument list should be available through 'show args'.
gdb_test "show args" \
"Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is \"$args\"\\."
+
+# Find the name of an environment variable that is not set.
+set env_var_base "GDB_TEST_ENV_VAR_"
+set env_var_name ""
+
+for { set i 0 } { $i < 10 } { incr i } {
+ set tmp_name ${env_var_base}${i}
+ if { ! [info exists ::env($tmp_name)] } {
+ set env_var_name $tmp_name
+ break
+ }
+}
+
+if { $env_var_name eq "" } {
+ unsupported "couldn't find suitable environment variable name"
+ return -1
+}
+
+# Generate a core file with this environment variable set.
+set env_var_value "TEST VALUE"
+save_vars { ::env($env_var_name) } {
+ setenv $env_var_name $env_var_value
+
+ set corefile [core_find $binfile {} $args]
+ if {$corefile == ""} {
+ untested "unable to create corefile"
+ return 0
+ }
+}
+set corefile_3 "$binfile.2.core"
+remote_exec build "mv $corefile $corefile_3"
+
+# Restart, load the core file, and check the environment variable
+# shows up.
+clean_restart $binfile
+
+# Check for environment variable VAR_NAME in the environment, its
+# value should be VAR_VALUE.
+proc check_for_env_var { var_name var_value } {
+ set saw_var false
+ gdb_test_multiple "show environment" "" {
+ -re "^$var_name=$var_value\r\n" {
+ set saw_var true
+ exp_continue
+ }
+ -re "^\[^\r\n\]*\r\n" {
+ exp_continue
+ }
+ -re "^$::gdb_prompt $" {
+ }
+ }
+ return $saw_var
+}
+
+gdb_assert { ![check_for_env_var $env_var_name $env_var_value] } \
+ "environment variable is not set before core file load"
+
+gdb_test "core-file $corefile_3" \
+ "Core was generated by `[string_to_regexp $binfile] $args'\\.\r\n.*" \
+ "load core file for environment test"
+
+gdb_assert { [check_for_env_var $env_var_name $env_var_value] } \
+ "environment variable is set after core file load"
--
2.25.4
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