[llvm-dev] [DWARF] Handling empty ranges/location lists in ET_REL files (original) (raw)

James Henderson via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Wed Jul 22 00:05:10 PDT 2020

Great, thanks! I'll look at a patch in due course (it may need to wait for me to finish other bits first).

James

On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 19:31, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

Yep, sounds like a reasonable bug in llvm-dwarfdump to fix.

Probably the right way to fix this is to check whether the start/end addresses have a section number. If they're zero with no section number, then they're really zero & should terminate the list. Otherwise they shouldn't. Here's a reproducer for debugranges at least, without needing any patches to LLVM: $ cat range.cpp void f1() { } _void f2() { builtinunreachable(); } // alternatively: "int f2() { }" - both constructs are valid so long as f2 is never called, though it may still need to have a valid address (could use pointers to it in a map for some reason, etc) int main() { } $ clang++ range.cpp -ffunction-sections -g -O1 -c $ llvm-dwarfdump-tot range.o -debug-info -debug-ranges range.o: file format elf64-x86-64 .debuginfo contents: 0x00000000: Compile Unit: length = 0x00000079, format = DWARF32, version = 0x0004, abbroffset = 0x0000, addrsize = 0x08 (next unit at 0x0000007d) 0x0000000b: DWTAGcompileunit ... DWATranges (0x00000000 [0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000001)) ... .debugranges contents: 00000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 00000000 00000020 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 00000020 $ llvm-dwarfdump-tot a.out -debug-info -debug-ranges a.out: file format elf64-x86-64 .debuginfo contents: 0x00000000: Compile Unit: length = 0x00000079, format = DWARF32, version = 0x0004, abbroffset = 0x0000, addrsize = 0x08 (next unit at 0x0000007d) 0x0000000b: DWTAGcompileunit ... DWATranges (0x00000000 [0x0000000000401110, 0x0000000000401111) [0x0000000000401120, 0x0000000000401120) [0x0000000000401120, 0x0000000000401123)) ... .debugranges contents: 00000000 0000000000401110 0000000000401111 00000000 0000000000401120 0000000000401120 00000000 0000000000401120 0000000000401123 00000000

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:29 AM Robinson, Paul <paul.robinson at sony.com> wrote: I agree it’s a bug. An absolute (0, 0) pair is what indicates end-of-list. You can get pairs of 0 addends with .quad foo; .quad foo or .quad foo; .quad bar but the former is an empty range and the latter would be a real range.

I’d expect the identical issue to pop up in .debugranges, so a patch should address both. --paulr

From: llvm-dev <llvm-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org> *On Behalf Of *James Henderson via llvm-dev Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 4:26 AM To: llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>; David Blaikie <_ _dblaikie at gmail.com>; Alexey Lapshin <a.v.lapshin at mail.ru> Subject: [llvm-dev] [DWARF] Handling empty ranges/location lists in ETREL files Hi all, I've put this email in a different thread, although it is quite similar to some of the threads on tombstoning etc, with similar underlying structural issues. Whilst prototyping my fragmented DWARF idea for GC-ing DWARF sections properly, I ran into an object in the game code I was using as my input where a v4 .debugloc section had a location description that looked something like this: .quad foo .quad foo ... # location description where foo was a section symbol, i.e. the start and end address were the same. Consequently, there would be two relocations with 0 addend patching the start and end offset. When I was using llvm-dwarfdump to dump the .debugloc section, I ended up with a decoding, and eventually a parsing error, because it saw a 0, 0 pair, so treated the entry as an end of list entry, and assumed the location description was the start of the next list. The debugloc parsing code treats 0, 0 pairs as end of list entries, whether or not they are relocated. I think this is a bug - if there are relocations we can be reasonably confident that the compiler did not intend it to be the end of the list, and at link time, this probably won't get resolved to 0, 0 (it's still technically possible it will, if 0 is a valid address, and the corresponding section was put at that address, but that's outside the scope of this email). I've got a fairly simple change that could solve this, but it would require to check for the presence of a relocation at either address, in the event 0, 0 was read. Should I go ahead with tidying up the change/testing it etc? Or do we want a different solution to this problem (aside from using DWARFv5 of course!)? Related aside: I haven't checked, but it's quite possible there's a similar problem in .debugranges parsing. James -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20200722/4d08d145/attachment.html>

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