gdb/python: handle saving user registers in a frame unwinder

This patch came about because I wanted to write a frame unwinder that
would corrupt the backtrace in a particular way.  In order to achieve
what I wanted I ended up trying to write an unwinder like this:

  class FrameId(object):
      .... snip class definition ....

  class TestUnwinder(Unwinder):
      def __init__(self):
          Unwinder.__init__(self, "some name")

      def __call__(self, pending_frame):
          pc_desc = pending_frame.architecture().registers().find("pc")
          pc = pending_frame.read_register(pc_desc)

          sp_desc = pending_frame.architecture().registers().find("sp")
          sp = pending_frame.read_register(sp_desc)

          # ... snip code to decide if this unwinder applies or not.

          fid = FrameId(pc, sp)
          unwinder = pending_frame.create_unwind_info(fid)
          unwinder.add_saved_register(pc_desc, pc)
          unwinder.add_saved_register(sp_desc, sp)
          return unwinder

The important things here are the two calls:

          unwinder.add_saved_register(pc_desc, pc)
          unwinder.add_saved_register(sp_desc, sp)

On x86-64 these would fail with an assertion error:

  gdb/regcache.c:168: internal-error: int register_size(gdbarch*, int): Assertion `regnum >= 0 && regnum < gdbarch_num_cooked_regs (gdbarch)' failed.

What happens is that in unwind_infopy_add_saved_register (py-unwind.c)
we call register_size, as register_size should only be called on
cooked (real or pseudo) registers, and 'pc' and 'sp' are implemented
as user registers (at least on x86-64), we trigger the assertion.

A simple fix would be to check in unwind_infopy_add_saved_register if
the register number we are handling is a cooked register or not, if
not we can throw a 'Bad register' error back to the Python code.

However, I think we can do better.

Consider that at the CLI we can do this:

  (gdb) set $pc=0x1234

This works because GDB first evaluates '$pc' to get a register value,
then evaluates '0x1234' to create a value encapsulating the
immediate.  The contents of the immediate value are then copied back
to the location of the register value representing '$pc'.

The value location for a user-register will (usually) be the location
of the real register that was accessed, so on x86-64 we'd expect this
to be $rip.

So, in this patch I propose that in the unwinder code, when
add_saved_register is called, if it is passed a
user-register (i.e. non-cooked) then we first fetch the register,
extract the real register number from the value's location, and use
that new register number when handling the add_saved_register call.

If either the value location that we get for the user-register is not
a cooked register then we can throw a 'Bad register' error back to the
Python code, but in most cases this will not happen.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* python/py-unwind.c (unwind_infopy_add_saved_register): Handle
	saving user registers.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* gdb.python/py-unwind-user-regs.c: New file.
	* gdb.python/py-unwind-user-regs.exp: New file.
	* gdb.python/py-unwind-user-regs.py: New file.
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Andrew Burgess 2021-05-26 15:24:04 +01:00
parent 1b40d569a8
commit 61e2dde2db
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@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
#include "python-internal.h"
#include "regcache.h"
#include "valprint.h"
#include "user-regs.h"
/* Debugging of Python unwinders. */
@ -265,6 +266,26 @@ unwind_infopy_add_saved_register (PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
PyErr_SetString (PyExc_ValueError, "Bad register");
return NULL;
}
/* If REGNUM identifies a user register then *maybe* we can convert this
to a real (i.e. non-user) register. The maybe qualifier is because we
don't know what user registers each target might add, however, the
following logic should work for the usual style of user registers,
where the read function just forwards the register read on to some
other register with no adjusting the value. */
if (regnum >= gdbarch_num_cooked_regs (pending_frame->gdbarch))
{
struct value *user_reg_value
= value_of_user_reg (regnum, pending_frame->frame_info);
if (VALUE_LVAL (user_reg_value) == lval_register)
regnum = VALUE_REGNUM (user_reg_value);
if (regnum >= gdbarch_num_cooked_regs (pending_frame->gdbarch))
{
PyErr_SetString (PyExc_ValueError, "Bad register");
return NULL;
}
}
{
struct value *value;
size_t data_size;