From FEDORA_PATCHES Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:27:39 -0400
Subject: gdb-rhbz1842691-corefile-mem-access-5of15.patch
;; Test ability to access unwritten-to mmap data in core file
;; Kevin Buettner, RH BZ 1842961
Author: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Mar 4 17:42:43 2020 -0700
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.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/corefile.exp
--- 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
--- 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