This is another attempt at fixing the problem described in commit 4cf88725da
"[gdb/symtab] Fix infinite recursion in dwarf2_cu::get_builder()", which was
reverted in commit 3db19b2d72.
First off, some context.
A DWARF CU can be viewed as a symbol table: toplevel children of a CU DIE
represent symbol table entries for that CU. Furthermore, there is a
hierarchy: a symbol table entry such as a function itself has a symbol table
containing parameters and local variables.
The dwarf reader maintains a notion of current symbol table (that is: the
symbol table a new symbol needs to be entered into) in dwarf2_cu member
list_in_scope.
A problem then presents itself when reading inter-CU references:
- a new symbol read from a CU B needs to be entered into the symbol table of
another CU A.
- the notion of current symbol table is tracked on a per-CU basis.
This is addressed in inherit_abstract_dies by temporarily overwriting the
list_in_scope for CU B with the one for CU A.
The current symbol table is one aspect of the current dwarf reader context
that is tracked, but there are more, f.i. ones that are tracked via the
dwarf2_cu member m_builder, f.i. m_builder->m_local_using_directives.
A similar problem exists in relation to inter-CU references, but a different
solution was chosen:
- to keep track of an ancestor field in dwarf2_cu, which is updated
when traversing inter-CU references, and
- to use the ancestor field in dwarf2_cu::get_builder to return the m_builder
in scope.
There is no actual concept of a CU having an ancestor, it just marks the most
recent CU from which a CU was inter-CU-referenced. Consequently, when
following inter-CU references from a CU A to another CU B and back to CU A,
the ancestors form a cycle, which causes dwarf2_cu::get_builder to hang or
segfault, as reported in PR26327.
ISTM that the ancestor implementation is confusing and fragile, and should
go. Furthermore, it seems that keeping track of the m_builder in scope can be
handled simply with a per-objfile variable.
Fix the hang / segfault by:
- keeping track of the m_builder in scope using a new variable
per_obj->sym_cu, and
- using it in dwarf2_cu::get_builder.
Tested on x86_64-linux (openSUSE Leap 15.2), no regressions for config:
- using default gcc version 7.5.0
(with 5 unexpected FAILs)
- gcc 10.3.0 and target board
unix/-flto/-O0/-flto-partition=none/-ffat-lto-objects
(with 1000 unexpected FAILs)
gdb/ChangeLog:
2021-06-16 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
PR symtab/26327
* dwarf2/cu.h (dwarf2_cu::ancestor): Remove.
(dwarf2_cu::get_builder): Declare and move ...
* dwarf2/cu.c (dwarf2_cu::get_builder): ... here. Use sym_cu instead
of ancestor. Assert return value is non-null.
* dwarf2/read.c (read_file_scope): Set per_objfile->sym_cu.
(follow_die_offset, follow_die_sig_1): Remove setting of ancestor.
(dwarf2_per_objfile): Add sym_cu field.
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