The Linux kernel has its own stack unwinding format for x86-64 called
ORC: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/x86/orc-unwinder.html. It is
essentially a simplified, less complete version of DWARF CFI. ORC is
generated by analyzing machine code, so it is present for all but a few
ignored functions. In contrast, DWARF CFI is generated by the compiler
and is therefore missing for functions written in assembly and inline
assembly (which is widespread in the kernel).
This implements an ORC stack unwinder: it applies ELF relocations to the
ORC sections, adds a new DRGN_CFI_RULE_REGISTER_ADD_OFFSET CFI rule
kind, parses and efficiently stores ORC data, and translates ORC to drgn
CFI rules. This will allow us to stack trace through assembly code,
interrupts, and system calls.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
The elfutils DWARF unwinder has a couple of limitations:
1. libdwfl doesn't have an interface for getting register values, so we
have to bundle a patched version of elfutils with drgn.
2. Error handling is very awkward: dwfl_getthread_frames() can return an
error even on success, so we have to squirrel away our own errors in
the callback.
Furthermore, there are a couple of things that will be easier with our
own unwinder:
1. Integrating unwinding using ORC will be easier when we're handling
unwinding ourselves.
2. Support for local variables isn't too far away now that we have DWARF
expression evaluation.
Now that we have the register state, CFI, and DWARF expression pieces in
place, stitch them together with the new unwinder, and tweak the public
API a bit to reflect it.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
enum drgn_register_number in the public libdrgn API and
drgn.Register.number in the Python bindings are basically exports of
DWARF register numbers. They only exist as a way to identify registers
that's lighter weight than string lookups. libdrgn already has struct
drgn_register, so we can use that to identify registers in the public
API and remove enum drgn_register_number. This has a couple of benefits:
we don't depend on DWARF numbering in our API, and we don't have to
generate drgn.h from the architecture files. The Python bindings can
just use string names for now. If it seems useful, StackFrame.register()
can take a Register in the future, we'll just need to be careful to not
allow Registers from the wrong platform.
While we're changing the API anyways, also change it so that registers
have a list of names instead of one name. This isn't needed for x86-64
at the moment, but will be for architectures that have multiple names
for the same register (like ARM).
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
In preparation for adding a "real", internal-only struct
drgn_stack_frame, replace the existing struct drgn_stack_frame with
explicit trace/frame arguments.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
I'd like to use the name drgn_object_kind to distinguish between values
and references. "Encoding" is more accurate than "kind", anyways.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
I recently hit a couple of CI failures caused by relying on transitive
includes that weren't always present. include-what-you-use is a
Clang-based tool that helps with this. It's a bit finicky and noisy, so
this adds scripts/iwyu.py to make running it more convenient (but not
reliable enough to automate it in Travis).
This cleans up all reasonable include-what-you-use warnings and
reorganizes a few header files.
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Debugging information tracking is currently in two places: drgn_program
finds debugging information, and drgn_dwarf_index stores it. Both of
these responsibilities make more sense as part of drgn_debug_info, so
let's move them there. This prepares us to track extra debugging
information that isn't pertinent to indexing.
This also reworks a couple of details of loading debugging information:
- drgn_dwarf_module and drgn_dwfl_module_userdata are consolidated into
a single structure, drgn_debug_info_module.
- The first pass of DWARF indexing now happens in parallel with reading
compilation units (by using OpenMP tasks).
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
There are a couple of related ways that we can cause undefined behavior
when parsing a malformed DWARF or depmod index file:
1. There are several places where we increment the cursor to skip past
some data. It is undefined behavior if the result points out of
bounds of the data, even if we don't attempt to dereference it.
2. read_in_bounds() checks that ptr <= end. This pointer comparison is
only defined if ptr and end both point to elements of the same array
object or one past the last element. If ptr has gone past end, then
this comparison is likely undefined anyways.
Fix it by adding a helper to skip past data with bounds checking. Then,
all of the helpers can assume that ptr <= end and maintain that
invariant. while we're here and auditing all of the call sites, let's
clean up the API and rename it from read_foo() to the less generic
mread_foo().
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Commit eea5422546 ("libdrgn: make Linux kernel stack unwinding more
robust") overlooked that if the task is running in userspace, the stack
pointer in PRSTATUS obviously won't match the kernel stack pointer.
Let's bite the bullet and use the PID. If the race shows up in practice,
we can try to come up with another workaround.
drgn has a couple of issues unwinding stack traces for kernel core
dumps:
1. It can't unwind the stack for the idle task (PID 0), which commonly
appears in core dumps.
2. It uses the PID in PRSTATUS, which is racy and can't actually be
trusted.
The solution for both of these is to look up the PRSTATUS note by CPU
instead of PID.
For the live kernel, drgn refuses to unwind the stack of tasks in the
"R" state. However, the "R" state is running *or runnable*, so in the
latter case, we can still unwind the stack. The solution for this is to
look at on_cpu for the task instead of the state.
We currently unwind from pt_regs and NT_PRSTATUS using an array of
register definitions. It's more flexible and more efficient to do this
with an architecture-specific callback. For x86-64, this change also
makes us depend on the binary layout rather than member names of struct
pt_regs, but that shouldn't matter unless people are defining their own,
weird struct pt_regs.
drgn was originally my side project, but for awhile now it's also been
my work project. Update the copyright headers to reflect this, and add a
copyright header to various files that were missing it.
For functions that call a noreturn function, the compiler may omit code
after the call instruction. This means that the return address may not
lie in the caller's symbol. dwfl_frame_pc() returns whether a frame is
an "activation", i.e., its program counter is guaranteed to lie within
the caller. This is only the case for the initial frame, frames
interrupted by a signal, and the signal trampoline frame. For everything
else, we need to decrement the program counter before doing any lookups.
DRGN_UNREACHABLE() currently expands to abort(), but assert() provides
more information. If NDEBUG is defined, we can use
__builtin_unreachable() instead.
DRGN_UNREACHABLE() isn't drgn-specific, so this renames it to
UNREACHABLE(). It's also not really related to errors, so this moves it
to internal.h.
I've found that I do this manually a lot (e.g., when digging through a
task's stack). Add shortcuts for reading unsigned integers and a note
for how to manually read other formats.
I thought I'd be able to avoid adding a separate API for register values
and reuse dwfl_frame_eval_expr(), but this doesn't work if the frame is
missing debug information but has known register values (e.g., if the
program crashed with an invalid instruction pointer).
Instead of having two internal variants (drgn_find_symbol_internal() and
drgn_program_find_symbol_in_module()), combine them into the former and
add a separate drgn_error_symbol_not_found() for translating the static
error to the user-facing one. This makes things more flexible for the
next change.
In preparation for making drgn_pretty_print_object() more flexible
(i.e., not always "pretty"), rename it to drgn_format_object(). For
consistency, let's rename drgn_pretty_print_type_name(),
drgn_pretty_print_type(), and drgn_pretty_print_stack_trace(), too.
We currently don't check that the task we're unwinding is actually
blocked, which means that linux_kernel_set_initial_registers_x86_64()
will get garbage from the stack and we'll return a nonsense stack trace.
Let's avoid this by checking that the task isn't running if we didn't
find a NT_PRSTATUS note.
When debugging the Linux kernel, it's inconvenient to have to get the
task_struct of a thread in order to get its stack trace. This adds
support for looking it up solely by PID. In that case, we do the
find_task() inside of libdrgn. This also gives us stack trace support
for userspace core dumps almost for free since we already added support
for NT_PRSTATUS.
vmcores include a NT_PRSTATUS note for each CPU containing the PID of
the task running on that CPU at the time of the crash and its registers.
We can use that to unwind the stack of the crashed tasks.
Currently, the only information available from a stack frame is the
program counter. Eventually, we'd like to add support for getting
arguments and local variables, but that will require more work. In the
mean time, we can at least get the values of other registers. A
determined user can read the assembly for the code they're debugging and
derive the values of variables from the registers.
For now, we only support stack traces for the Linux kernel (at least
v4.9) on x86-64, and we only support getting the program counter and
corresponding function symbol from each stack frame.
