drgn is currently licensed as GPLv3+. Part of the long term vision for
drgn is that other projects can use it as a library providing
programmatic interfaces for debugger functionality. A more permissive
license is better suited to this goal. We decided on LGPLv2.1+ as a good
balance between software freedom and permissiveness.
All contributors not employed by Meta were contacted via email and
consented to the license change. The only exception was the author of
commit c4fbf7e589 ("libdrgn: fix for compilation error"), who did not
respond. That commit reverted a single line of code to one originally
written by me in commit 640b1c011d ("libdrgn: embed DWARF index in
DWARF info cache").
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
If the DWARF index encounters any error while parsing, it returns an
error saying only "debug information is truncated", which makes it hard
to track down parsing errors. The kmod index parser silently swallows
errors. For both, replace the mread functions with a higher-level
binary_buffer interface that can include more information including the
location of the error. For example:
/tmp/mybinary: .debug_info+0x4: expected at least 56 bytes, have 55
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
