# # gdb helper commands and functions for Linux kernel debugging # # common utilities # # Copyright (c) Siemens AG, 2011-2013 # # Authors: # Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> # # This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2. # import gdb class CachedType: def __init__(self, name): self._type = None self._name = name def _new_objfile_handler(self, event): self._type = None gdb.events.new_objfile.disconnect(self._new_objfile_handler) def get_type(self): if self._type is None: self._type = gdb.lookup_type(self._name) if self._type is None: raise gdb.GdbError( "cannot resolve type '{0}'".format(self._name)) if hasattr(gdb, 'events') and hasattr(gdb.events, 'new_objfile'): gdb.events.new_objfile.connect(self._new_objfile_handler) return self._type long_type = CachedType("long") def get_long_type(): global long_type return long_type.get_type() def offset_of(typeobj, field): element = gdb.Value(0).cast(typeobj) return int(str(element[field].address).split()[0], 16) def container_of(ptr, typeobj, member): return (ptr.cast(get_long_type()) - offset_of(typeobj, member)).cast(typeobj) class ContainerOf(gdb.Function): """Return pointer to containing data structure. $container_of(PTR, "TYPE", "ELEMENT"): Given PTR, return a pointer to the data structure of the type TYPE in which PTR is the address of ELEMENT. Note that TYPE and ELEMENT have to be quoted as strings.""" def __init__(self): super(ContainerOf, self).__init__("container_of") def invoke(self, ptr, typename, elementname): return container_of(ptr, gdb.lookup_type(typename.string()).pointer(), elementname.string()) ContainerOf() BIG_ENDIAN = 0 LITTLE_ENDIAN = 1 target_endianness = None def get_target_endianness(): global target_endianness if target_endianness is None: endian = gdb.execute("show endian", to_string=True) if "little endian" in endian: target_endianness = LITTLE_ENDIAN elif "big endian" in endian: target_endianness = BIG_ENDIAN else: raise gdb.GdbError("unknown endianness '{0}'".format(str(endian))) return target_endianness def read_u16(buffer): if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN: return ord(buffer[0]) + (ord(buffer[1]) << 8) else: return ord(buffer[1]) + (ord(buffer[0]) << 8) def read_u32(buffer): if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN: return read_u16(buffer[0:2]) + (read_u16(buffer[2:4]) << 16) else: return read_u16(buffer[2:4]) + (read_u16(buffer[0:2]) << 16) def read_u64(buffer): if get_target_endianness() == LITTLE_ENDIAN: return read_u32(buffer[0:4]) + (read_u32(buffer[4:8]) << 32) else: return read_u32(buffer[4:8]) + (read_u32(buffer[0:4]) << 32) target_arch = None def is_target_arch(arch): if hasattr(gdb.Frame, 'architecture'): return arch in gdb.newest_frame().architecture().name() else: global target_arch if target_arch is None: target_arch = gdb.execute("show architecture", to_string=True) return arch in target_arch GDBSERVER_QEMU = 0 GDBSERVER_KGDB = 1 gdbserver_type = None def get_gdbserver_type(): def exit_handler(event): global gdbserver_type gdbserver_type = None gdb.events.exited.disconnect(exit_handler) def probe_qemu(): try: return gdb.execute("monitor info version", to_string=True) != "" except: return False def probe_kgdb(): try: thread_info = gdb.execute("info thread 2", to_string=True) return "shadowCPU0" in thread_info except: return False global gdbserver_type if gdbserver_type is None: if probe_qemu(): gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_QEMU elif probe_kgdb(): gdbserver_type = GDBSERVER_KGDB if gdbserver_type is not None and hasattr(gdb, 'events'): gdb.events.exited.connect(exit_handler) return gdbserver_type