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[01/15] Add thread-safety to gdb's BFD wrappers

Message ID 20231029173839.471514-2-tom@tromey.com
State New
Headers
Series Index DWARF in the background |

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Tom Tromey Oct. 29, 2023, 5:35 p.m. UTC 
  This changes gdb to ensure that gdb's BFD cache is guarded by a lock.
This avoids any races when multiple threads might open a BFD (and thus
use the BFD cache) at the same time.

Currently, this change is not needed because the the main thread waits
for some DWARF scanning to be completed before returning.  The only
locking that's required is when opening DWO files, and there's a local
lock to this end in dwarf2/read.c.

However, in the coming patches, the DWARF reader will begin its work
earlier, in the background.  This means there is the potential for the
DWARF reader and other code on the main thread to both attempt to open
BFDs at the same time.
---
 gdb/dwarf2/read.c |  3 +--
 gdb/gdb_bfd.c     | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 gdb/gdb_bfd.h     |  5 +++++
 gdb/main.c        |  3 +--
 4 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
index 3b3daf28965..088f01d807d 100644
--- a/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
+++ b/gdb/dwarf2/read.c
@@ -3936,8 +3936,7 @@  static struct dwo_unit *
 lookup_dwo_unit (dwarf2_cu *cu, die_info *comp_unit_die, const char *dwo_name)
 {
 #if CXX_STD_THREAD
-  /* We need a lock here both to handle the DWO hash table, and BFD,
-     which is not thread-safe.  */
+  /* We need a lock here both to handle the DWO hash table.  */
   static std::mutex dwo_lock;
 
   std::lock_guard<std::mutex> guard (dwo_lock);
diff --git a/gdb/gdb_bfd.c b/gdb/gdb_bfd.c
index 56a4c5ecc91..5f100a50fa5 100644
--- a/gdb/gdb_bfd.c
+++ b/gdb/gdb_bfd.c
@@ -35,6 +35,34 @@ 
 #include "cli/cli-style.h"
 #include <unordered_map>
 
+#if CXX_STD_THREAD
+
+#include <mutex>
+
+/* Lock held when doing BFD operations.  A recursive mutex is used
+   because we use this mutex internally and also for BFD, just to make
+   life a bit simpler, and we may sometimes hold it while calling into
+   BFD.  */
+static std::recursive_mutex gdb_bfd_mutex;
+
+/* BFD locking function.  */
+
+static void
+gdb_bfd_lock ()
+{
+  gdb_bfd_mutex.lock ();
+}
+
+/* BFD unlocking function.  */
+
+static void
+gdb_bfd_unlock ()
+{
+  gdb_bfd_mutex.unlock ();
+}
+
+#endif /* CXX_STD_THREAD */
+
 /* An object of this type is stored in the section's user data when
    mapping a section.  */
 
@@ -498,6 +526,10 @@  gdb_bfd_open (const char *name, const char *target, int fd,
       name += strlen (TARGET_SYSROOT_PREFIX);
     }
 
+#if CXX_STD_THREAD
+  std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> guard (gdb_bfd_mutex);
+#endif
+
   if (gdb_bfd_cache == NULL)
     gdb_bfd_cache = htab_create_alloc (1, hash_bfd, eq_bfd, NULL,
 				       xcalloc, xfree);
@@ -625,6 +657,10 @@  gdb_bfd_ref (struct bfd *abfd)
   if (abfd == NULL)
     return;
 
+#if CXX_STD_THREAD
+  std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> guard (gdb_bfd_mutex);
+#endif
+
   gdata = (struct gdb_bfd_data *) bfd_usrdata (abfd);
 
   bfd_cache_debug_printf ("Increase reference count on bfd %s (%s)",
@@ -654,6 +690,10 @@  gdb_bfd_unref (struct bfd *abfd)
   if (abfd == NULL)
     return;
 
+#if CXX_STD_THREAD
+  std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> guard (gdb_bfd_mutex);
+#endif
+
   gdata = (struct gdb_bfd_data *) bfd_usrdata (abfd);
   gdb_assert (gdata->refc >= 1);
 
@@ -1171,6 +1211,19 @@  gdb_bfd_error_handler (const char *fmt, va_list ap)
   (*default_bfd_error_handler) (fmt, ap);
 }
 
+/* See gdb_bfd.h.  */
+
+void
+gdb_bfd_init ()
+{
+  if (bfd_init () != BFD_INIT_MAGIC)
+    error (_("fatal error: libbfd ABI mismatch"));
+
+#if CXX_STD_THREAD
+  bfd_thread_init (gdb_bfd_lock, gdb_bfd_unlock);
+#endif
+}
+
 void _initialize_gdb_bfd ();
 void
 _initialize_gdb_bfd ()
diff --git a/gdb/gdb_bfd.h b/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
index 604365b61b1..669c3a06c98 100644
--- a/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
+++ b/gdb/gdb_bfd.h
@@ -250,4 +250,9 @@  gdb_bfd_sections (const gdb_bfd_ref_ptr &abfd)
 
 extern std::string gdb_bfd_errmsg (bfd_error_type error_tag, char **matching);
 
+/* A wrapper for bfd_init that also handles setting up for
+   multi-threading.  */
+
+extern void gdb_bfd_init ();
+
 #endif /* GDB_BFD_H */
diff --git a/gdb/main.c b/gdb/main.c
index 2da39f89a90..39eacd2208b 100644
--- a/gdb/main.c
+++ b/gdb/main.c
@@ -688,8 +688,7 @@  captured_main_1 (struct captured_main_args *context)
   gdb_stdtargerr = gdb_stderr;
   gdb_stdtargin = gdb_stdin;
 
-  if (bfd_init () != BFD_INIT_MAGIC)
-    error (_("fatal error: libbfd ABI mismatch"));
+  gdb_bfd_init ();
 
 #ifdef __MINGW32__
   /* On Windows, argv[0] is not necessarily set to absolute form when