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authorDodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>2015-08-13 15:59:41 +0200
committerMark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>2015-08-14 16:44:42 +0200
commitb901b5e742e03d781fe9b6ecf030d6d297948018 (patch)
tree374559ff13e353d2a638177def1e5db30acc10eb /libdwfl/libdwfl.h
parentd950fcd511c79193ff1ed9a994826d6bb61e77c1 (diff)
downloadelfutils-b901b5e742e03d781fe9b6ecf030d6d297948018.tar.gz
Fix finding split debug info files not located by the build-id mechanism
[This bug has been found by using elfutils in the context of libabigail. The initial bug report is https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18792. The interesting comments start at is https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18792#c4] suppose we have a debug info file that is located at a /prefix1/usr/lib/debug/prefix2/libfoo.so. Suppose also that the debug info describes a binary that is located at /prefix1/prefix2/libfoo.so Suppose the debug_link property inside the binary /prefix1/prefix2/libfoo.so correctly contains the string "libfoo.so" that designates the name of the debug info file. The problem is, when find_debuginfo_in_path() is called with its file_name parameter set to "/prefix1/prefix2/libfoo.so" and mod->dwfl->callbacks->debuginfo_path set to "/prefix1/lib/debug/", it fails to locate the debug info file libfoo.so under "/prefix1/usr/lib/debug/prefix2/". This patch fixes the issue by making find_debuginfo_in_path() try all the sub-strings of "/prefix1/prefix2/libfoo.so "under" "/prefix1/usr/lib/debug/", to find libfoo.so. That is, it tries, in order: - /prefix1/usr/lib/debug/prefix1/prefix2/libfoo.so - /prefix1/usr/lib/debug/prefix2/libfoo.so <-- and boom, it finds it! Note that the patch tries the variations between the two candidates above too. The patch uses a goto. I dislike gotos like anyone else, but then here, not using this would imply a bigger change of the logic of that function. So I am proposing the scheme based on the goto instead. * libdwfl/find-debuginfo.c (find_debuginfo_in_path): Try to locate the debug info file named debuglink_file under mod->dwfl->callbacks->debuginfo_path, by looking at the set of sub-trees under mod->dwfl->callbacks->debuginfo_path which is common to the set of non-absolute parent trees of file_name. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253367 Signed-off-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libdwfl/libdwfl.h')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/libdwfl/libdwfl.h b/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
index 2bb4f455..1098c833 100644
--- a/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
+++ b/libdwfl/libdwfl.h
@@ -275,12 +275,14 @@ extern int dwfl_module_build_id (Dwfl_Module *mod,
In searches for debuginfo by name, if the remainder of the
element is empty, the directory containing the main file is
tried; if it's an absolute path name, the absolute directory path
- containing the main file is taken as a subdirectory of this path;
- a relative path name is taken as a subdirectory of the directory
- containing the main file. Hence for /bin/ls, the default string
- ":.debug:/usr/lib/debug" says to look in /bin, then /bin/.debug,
- then /usr/lib/debug/bin, for the file name in the .gnu_debuglink
- section (or "ls.debug" if none was found). */
+ (and any subdirectory of that path) containing the main file is
+ taken as a subdirectory of this path; a relative path name is taken
+ as a subdirectory of the directory containing the main file.
+ Hence for /usr/bin/ls, the default string ":.debug:/usr/lib/debug"
+ says to look in /usr/bin, then /usr/bin/.debug, then the path subdirs
+ under /usr/lib/debug, in the order /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin, then
+ /usr/lib/debug/bin, and finally /usr/lib/debug, for the file name in
+ the .gnu_debuglink section (or "ls.debug" if none was found). */
/* Standard find_elf callback function working solely on build ID.
This can be tried first by any find_elf callback, to use the