libthread_db initialization changes related to upcoming glibc-2.34

This commit makes some adjustments to accomodate the upcoming
glibc-2.34 release.  Beginning with glibc-2.34, functionality formerly
contained in libpthread has been moved to libc.  For the time being,
libpthread.so still exists in the file system, but it won't show up in
ldd output and therefore won't be able to trigger initialization of
libthread_db related code.  E.g...

Fedora 34 / glibc-2.33.9000:

[kev@f34-2 gdb]$ ldd testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/tls/tls
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffcf94fa000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba9af000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba8d4000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff0ba8b9000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff0ba6c6000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff0babf0000)

Fedora 34 / glibc-2.33:

[kev@f34-1 gdb]$ ldd testsuite/outputs/gdb.threads/tls/tls
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff32dc0000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f815f6de000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f815f4bf000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f815f37b000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f815f360000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f815f191000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f815f721000)

Note that libpthread is missing from the ldd output for the
glibc-2.33.9000 machine.

This means that (unless we happen to think of some entirely different
mechanism), we'll now need to potentially match "libc" in addition to
"libpthread" as libraries which might be thread libraries.  This
accounts for the change made in solib.c.  Note that the new code
attempts to match "/libc." via strstr().  That trailing dot (".")
avoids inadvertently matching libraries such as libcrypt (and
all the other many libraries which begin with "libc").

To avoid attempts to load libthread_db when encountering older
versions of libc, we now attempt to find "pthread_create" (which is a
symbol that we'd expect to be in any pthread library) in the
associated objfile.  This accounts for the changes in
linux-thread-db.c.

I think that other small adjustments will need to be made elsewhere
too.  I've been working through regressions on my glibc-2.33.9000
machine; I've fixed some fairly "obvious" changes in the testsuite
(which are in other commits).  For the rest, it's not yet clear to me
whether the handful of remaining failures represent a problem in glibc
or gdb.  I'm still investigating, however, I'll note that these are
problems that I only see on my glibc-2.33.9000 machine.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* solib.c (libpthread_name_p): Match "libc" in addition
	to "libpthread".
	* linux-thread-db.c (libpthread_objfile_p): New function.
	(libpthread_name_p): Adjust preexisting callers to use
	libpthread_objfile_p().

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 3b2693dd1f64e02c75851cdf7c41488ec2db22d6..e5aac22ae3e449b199673ee59b96cf13591eaf0e 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2021-06-11  Kevin Buettner  <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+       * solib.c (libpthread_name_p): Match "libc" in addition
+       to "libpthread".
+       * linux-thread-db.c (libpthread_objfile_p): New function.
+       (libpthread_name_p): Adjust preexisting callers to use
+       libpthread_objfile_p().
+
 2021-06-11  Simon Marchi  <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
 
        * dwarf2/loc.h (struct call_site_stuff): Remove.

diff --git a/gdb/linux-thread-db.c b/gdb/linux-thread-db.c
index d1e8c22ac96233f9171ce88cb8aa19f44d97ab02..5b4e5a8654f9f18a9b4bc35484c735798b1405b6 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/linux-thread-db.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-thread-db.c
@@ -799,6 +799,24 @@ check_thread_db (struct thread_db_info *info, bool log_progress)
   return test_passed;
 }
 
+/* Predicate which tests whether objfile OBJ refers to the library
+   containing pthread related symbols.  Historically, this library has
+   been named in such a way that looking for "libpthread" in the name
+   was sufficient to identify it.  As of glibc-2.34, the C library
+   (libc) contains the thread library symbols.  Therefore we check
+   that the name matches a possible thread library, but we also check
+   that it contains at least one of the symbols (pthread_create) that
+   we'd expect to find in the thread library.  */
+
+static bool
+libpthread_objfile_p (objfile *obj)
+{
+  return (libpthread_name_p (objfile_name (obj))
+          && lookup_minimal_symbol ("pthread_create",
+                                   NULL,
+                                   obj).minsym != NULL);
+}
+
 /* Attempt to initialize dlopen()ed libthread_db, described by INFO.
    Return true on success.
    Failure could happen if libthread_db does not have symbols we expect,
@@ -1072,7 +1090,7 @@ try_thread_db_load_from_pdir (const char *subdir)
     return false;
 
   for (objfile *obj : current_program_space->objfiles ())
-    if (libpthread_name_p (objfile_name (obj)))
+    if (libpthread_objfile_p (obj))
       {
        if (try_thread_db_load_from_pdir_1 (obj, subdir))
          return true;
@@ -1181,7 +1199,7 @@ static bool
 has_libpthread (void)
 {
   for (objfile *obj : current_program_space->objfiles ())
-    if (libpthread_name_p (objfile_name (obj)))
+    if (libpthread_objfile_p (obj))
       return true;
 
   return false;
@@ -1286,7 +1304,7 @@ thread_db_new_objfile (struct objfile *objfile)
         of the list of shared libraries to load, and in an app of several
         thousand shared libraries, this can otherwise be painful.  */
       && ((objfile->flags & OBJF_MAINLINE) != 0
-         || libpthread_name_p (objfile_name (objfile))))
+         || libpthread_objfile_p (objfile)))
     check_for_thread_db ();
 }
 

diff --git a/gdb/solib.c b/gdb/solib.c
index 2df521181438257a4a3c930b5377e355c62afd33..317f7eb485e25cdb41bfa6306ec7d3c476418129 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/solib.c
+++ b/gdb/solib.c
@@ -900,12 +900,17 @@ Do you need \"set solib-search-path\" or \"set sysroot\"?"),
 
    Uses a fairly simplistic heuristic approach where we check
    the file name against "/libpthread".  This can lead to false
-   positives, but this should be good enough in practice.  */
+   positives, but this should be good enough in practice.
+
+   As of glibc-2.34, functions formerly residing in libpthread have
+   been moved to libc, so "/libc." needs to be checked too.  (Matching
+   the "." will avoid matching libraries such as libcrypt.) */
 
 bool
 libpthread_name_p (const char *name)
 {
-  return (strstr (name, "/libpthread") != NULL);
+  return (strstr (name, "/libpthread") != NULL
+          || strstr (name, "/libc.") != NULL );
 }
 
 /* Return non-zero if SO is the libpthread shared library.  */