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* [musl] Tracking shared libraries in GDB not working?
@ 2021-12-15 13:10 d.dorau
  2021-12-15 15:20 ` Rich Felker
  2021-12-20  8:54 ` d.dorau
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: d.dorau @ 2021-12-15 13:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: musl

Hello,
I have an issue using gdb with musl and am hoping that you might be able to help me:

I am cross compiling a linux+musl based firmware for a MIPS platform and then
connecting a multiarch-gdb to a gdbserver on that device.

This seems to work well, as well as loading all necessary symbols from the host.

However, when running the application on the target device, gdb seems to be unable
to track the loading of shared libraries the application was linked against.

If I break at main() and enter "info shared", only the loader is shown.

gdb) target remote 192.168.190.33:2345 
Remote debugging using 192.168.190.33:2345 
Reading symbols from /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/usr/bin/pbd... 
Reading symbols from /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/usr/bin/.debug/pbd... 
Reading symbols from /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/ld-musl-mips-sf.so.1... 
Reading symbols from /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/.debug/libc.so... 
0x77f40ee0 in _dlstart () from /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/ld-musl-mips-sf.so.1 
(gdb) break main 
Breakpoint 1 at 0x55557e10: file pbserver.c, line 11668. 
(gdb) continue  Continuing.  
Breakpoint 1, main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffd564) at pbserver.c:11668
 11668   { 
(gdb) info shared 
From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library 
0x77f40740  0x77fba844  Yes         /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/ld-musl-mips-sf.so.1


If I repeat that whole process on a glibc based ARM platform, it works as expected. There,
gdb is able to notice all shared libraries the application was linked against and shows them
correspondingly:

(gdb) i shared                                                                                                                                 
From        To          Syms Read   Shared Object Library                                                                                      
0xb6fcea00  0xb6fe9d90  Yes (*)     /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/ld-linux.so.3                                                
0xb6faa168  0xb6fbbc08  Yes         /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/usr/lib/libbsd.so.0                                              
0xb6f956f0  0xb6f95cc8  Yes (*)     /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/libwdt.so.1                                                  
0xb6f7d0c8  0xb6f826e0  Yes (*)     /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/libmxml.so.1                                                 
0xb6f68984  0xb6f6994c  Yes (*)     /home/ddorau/gu/GU_MASTER/filesystem_temp/lib/libdl.so.2
[...]

The libraries are actually loaded successfully, just the gdbserver does not recognize this.
I'm not familiar with the internals, but assuming gdb would use some kind of breakpoint in the
loader to notice which libraries are loaded (and to what address).

It seems I am missing some necessary step for the platform using musl which would enable the same
behaviour. Am I maybe missing musl related patches for the gdbserver which allows it to track the
process of loading those shared libraries?


I would very much appreciate if anyone can help me find the missing piece.

Thanks
Daniel


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2021-12-15 13:10 [musl] Tracking shared libraries in GDB not working? d.dorau
2021-12-15 15:20 ` Rich Felker
2021-12-20  8:54 ` d.dorau
2022-01-09  5:14   ` Rich Felker
2023-01-10 20:02     ` Hauke Mehrtens
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