tls access fails after runtime fix symbol lookups change
Stan Cox
scox@redhat.com
Mon May 10 21:57:00 GMT 2021
Sultan,
The thread local storage access stopped working after:
runtime: fix symbol lookups when the first section isn't executable
Some binaries are linked in such a way that there are VMA address
range gaps, indicated by non-zero load offsets. The runtime needs to
not lose those offsets to enable a proper mapping back & forth from
addresses to symbols.
runtime/sym.c | 12 ++++++------
runtime/task_finder_vma.c | 9 +++++++--
runtime/unwind.c | 2 +-
runtime/vma.c | 31 ++++++++++---------------------
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
More specifically, what fails is accessing the module list; which is the
list of executable and libraries. That list is used to find the correct
entry for a given module. A quick way to test this is:
RUNTESTFLAGS='tls.exp' make installcheck
After the above is run, a more specific check can be done by executing
this (access module list directly) in the testsuite directory.
% ../../install/bin/stap -DTIF_IA32=99 --disable-cache --runtime=kernel
-g -c /work/scox/systemtap/bld/testsuite/tls1.x -e 'probe
process.function("main")
{printf("%#lx\n",user_long_error(&@var("_rtld_global","/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2")->_dl_ns[0]->_ns_loaded));}'
; ../../install/bin/stap -DTIF_IA32=99 --disable-cache --runtime=kernel
-g -c /work/scox/systemtap/bld/testsuite/tls1.x -e 'probe
process.function("main")
{printf("%#s\n",(@var("_rtld_global","/usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2")->_dl_ns[0]->_ns_loaded$));}'
tls counter for 1: 2/3
tls counter for 2: 3/4
0x7efc51d761a0
tls counter for 1: 2/3
tls counter for 2: 3/4
{.l_addr=0, .l_name="", .l_ld=0x403dd8, .l_next=0x7f11692c5750,
.l_prev=0x0, .l_real=0x7f11692c51a0, .l_ns=0, .l_libname=0x7f11692c5728,
.l_info=[...], .l_phdr=0x400040, .l_entry=4198496, .l_phnum=12,
.l_ldnum=0, .l_searchlist={...}, .l_symbolic_searchlist={...},
.l_loader=0x0, .l_versions=0x7f1169272530, .l_nversions=4,
.l_nbuckets=1, .l_gnu_bitmask_idxbits=0, .l_gnu_shift=0,
.l_gnu_bitmask=0x400350, <union>={...}, <union>={...},
.l_direct_opencount=1, .l_type=0, .l_relocated=1, .l_init_called=1,
.l_globa...
Failing result:
tls counter for 1: 2/3
tls counter for 2: 3/4
ERROR: read fault [man error::fault] at 0x7f84a4ac9000 near identifier
'user_long_error' at
/work/scox/teststap/bld/../install/share/systemtap/tapset/uconversions.stp:687:10
WARNING: Number of errors: 1, skipped probes: 0
WARNING: /work/scox/teststap/bld/../install/bin/staprun exited with
status: 1
Pass 5: run failed. [man error::pass5]
tls counter for 1: 2/3
tls counter for 2: 3/4
ERROR
Change to user mode (--runtime=dyninst), and it works okay.
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