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Re: GDB mainline segfaults on 32bit threaded program.
- From: Manoj Iyer <manjo at austin dot ibm dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:22:51 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: GDB mainline segfaults on 32bit threaded program.
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0407061129250.7940@lazy>
Sorry forgot to attach the testcase.
--
Manjo
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>
> GDB (mainline cvs) built 32bit on ppc64 machine running sles9 dumps core
> on a multithreaded program. gdb segfaults only when I set a breakpoint on
> the thread fucntion and decide to stop there.
>
> 1. cc -o tbug_dwarf2 tbug.c -g dwarf-2 -lpthread
> 2. gdb tbug_dwarf2
> 3. br main
> 4. br tf
> 5. run <---- segfalts here
> 6. c
>
>
> Attached is a testcase that can re-create this problem "tbug.c"
>
> I used GDB to debug this core produced, here is the backtrace...
> #0 0x0fe05694 in strcmp () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #1 0x100cfba8 in lookup_symtab (name=0xffffc360 "/root/manjo/tbug.c")
> at symtab.c:185
> #2 0x100d9254 in symtab_from_filename (argptr=0xffffc480, p=0x104caafa
> ":tf",
> is_quote_enclosed=0, not_found_ptr=0x0) at linespec.c:1523
> #3 0x100d99c4 in decode_line_1 (argptr=0xffffc480, funfirstline=1,
> default_symtab=0x0, default_line=0, canonical=0x0, not_found_ptr=0x0)
> at linespec.c:744
> #4 0x100a432c in breakpoint_re_set_one (bint=0x104ca958) at
> breakpoint.c:7157
> #5 0x10051748 in do_catch_errors (uiout=0x104ca958, data=0x0) at
> top.c:524
> #6 0x10053d20 in catcher (func=0x1005172c <do_catch_errors>,
> func_uiout=0x104712c8, func_args=0xffffc848, func_val=0xffffc850,
> func_caught=0xffffc854,
> errstring=0x7f7f7f7f <Address 0x7f7f7f7f out of bounds>,
> gdberrmsg=0x0,
> mask=6) at top.c:431
> #7 0x10053d80 in catch_errors (func=0xffffc2f0, func_args=0x104cbeb8,
> errstring=0x7f7f7f7f <Address 0x7f7f7f7f out of bounds>, mask=0)
> at top.c:536
> #8 0x100a2b14 in breakpoint_re_set () at breakpoint.c:7340
> #9 0x100d2bd4 in new_symfile_objfile (objfile=0x104ca958, mainline=0,
> verbo=0)
> at symfile.c:741
> #10 0x100d4634 in symbol_file_add_with_addrs_or_offsets (abfd=0x104d0220,
> from_tty=0, addrs=0x0, offsets=0x0, num_offsets=0, mainline=0,
> flags=8)
>
>
> The macro FILENAME_CMP in symtab.c:185 uses the strcmp to do the
> comparison, symtab_to_fullname() function returns NULL for s->fullname and
> this causes strcmp to segfault. Although syntab.c:185 checks if full_path
> != NULL but it does not check if const char *fp = symtab_to_fullname (s);
> is not equal to NULL. I dont know what causes symtab_to_fullname() to
> return NULL.
>
> Thanks
> Manoj Iyer
>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#define N 2
static void *
tf (void *arg)
{
int n = (int) (long int) arg;
char number[160];
sprintf(number, "tf(%ld): begin", (long)arg);
puts (number);
sleep (10);
sprintf(number, "tf(%ld): end", (long)arg);
puts (number);
return NULL;
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
int n;
pthread_t th[N];
for (n = 0; n < N; ++n)
if (pthread_create (&th[n], NULL, tf, (void *) (long int) n) != 0)
{
sleep(2);
puts ("create failed");
exit (1);
}
puts("after create");
for (n = 0; n < N; ++n)
if (pthread_join (th[n], NULL) != 0)
{
puts ("join failed");
exit (1);
}
puts("after join");
return 0;
}