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authorKevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>2020-03-04 17:42:43 -0700
committerKevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>2020-07-22 12:40:42 -0700
commit94c265d790b88e691b9ea0173b7000a54a3eb0a0 (patch)
tree7b2f89ac2df9e5b3550e0d9720a2080876b2ea86 /gdb
parent2735d4218ea81ea83458007a80e4132fa6e73668 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-94c265d790b88e691b9ea0173b7000a54a3eb0a0.tar.gz
Test ability to access unwritten-to mmap data in core file
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: PR corefiles/25631 * gdb.base/corefile.exp (accessing anonymous, unwritten-to mmap data): New test. * gdb.base/coremaker.c (buf3): New global. (mmapdata): Add mmap call which uses MAP_ANONYMOUS and MAP_PRIVATE flags.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog11
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp9
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coremaker.c10
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 6c3bb5ec9d5..57e63f5216c 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-2020-07-20 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+2020-07-22 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+ PR corefiles/25631
+ * gdb.base/corefile.exp (accessing anonymous, unwritten-to mmap data):
+ New test.
+ * gdb.base/coremaker.c (buf3): New global.
+ (mmapdata): Add mmap call which uses MAP_ANONYMOUS and MAP_PRIVATE
+ flags.
+
+2020-07-22 Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/coremaker.c (filler_ro): New global constant.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp
index 34b903b350d..eaabe6c0f8c 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp
@@ -175,6 +175,15 @@ gdb_test_multiple "x/8bd buf2" "$test" {
}
}
+# Test ability to read anonymous and, more importantly, unwritten-to
+# mmap'd data.
+
+if { ![istarget *-linux*] } {
+ setup_xfail "*-*-*"
+}
+gdb_test "x/wx buf3" "$hex:\[ \t\]+0x00000000" \
+ "accessing anonymous, unwritten-to mmap data"
+
# test reinit_frame_cache
gdb_load ${binfile}
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coremaker.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coremaker.c
index a39b3ba8a4b..0981b21738f 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coremaker.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/coremaker.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
char *buf1;
char *buf2;
+char *buf3;
int coremaker_data = 1; /* In Data section */
int coremaker_bss; /* In BSS section */
@@ -104,6 +105,15 @@ mmapdata ()
}
/* Touch buf2 so kernel writes it out into 'core'. */
buf2[0] = buf1[0];
+
+ /* Create yet another region which is allocated, but not written to. */
+ buf3 = mmap (NULL, MAPSIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
+ if (buf3 == (char *) -1)
+ {
+ perror ("mmap failed");
+ return;
+ }
}
void