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From: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
To: Josh Kunz <jkz@google.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Support gdb 'qOffsets' query for ELF
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:23:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0286498e-bb23-914a-39e2-66701f0b5885@vivier.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190816233422.16715-1-jkz@google.com>

Le 17/08/2019 à 01:34, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
> This is needed to support debugging PIE ELF binaries running under QEMU
> user mode. Currently, `code_offset` and `data_offset` remain unset for
> all ELF binaries, so GDB is unable to correctly locate the position of
> the binary's text and data.
> 
> The fields `code_offset`, and `data_offset` were originally added way
> back in 2006 to support debugging of bFMT executables (978efd6aac6),
> and support was just never added for ELF. Since non-PIE binaries are
> loaded at exactly the address specified in the binary, GDB does not need
> to relocate any symbols, so the buggy behavior is not normally observed.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1528239
> Signed-off-by: Josh Kunz <jkz@google.com>
> ---
>  linux-user/elfload.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
> index 3365e192eb..ceac035208 100644
> --- a/linux-user/elfload.c
> +++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
> @@ -2380,6 +2380,8 @@ static void load_elf_image(const char *image_name, int image_fd,
>      }
>  
>      info->load_bias = load_bias;
> +    info->code_offset = load_bias;
> +    info->data_offset = load_bias;
>      info->load_addr = load_addr;
>      info->entry = ehdr->e_entry + load_bias;
>      info->start_code = -1;
> 

Applied to my linux-user branch.

Thanks,
Laurent


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-10  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-16 23:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Support gdb 'qOffsets' query for ELF Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel
2019-08-16 23:36 ` Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel
2019-08-17  1:35 ` no-reply
2019-08-26  8:29 ` Laurent Vivier
2019-09-03 19:19   ` Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel
2019-09-04  5:23     ` Laurent Vivier
2019-09-05 10:54     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2019-09-10  8:23 ` Laurent Vivier [this message]

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