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crash (8.0.0-1ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=medium
* Merge with Debian; remaining changes:
- Build without lto. Fails to build gdb on ppc64el. That should be fixed,
once gdb is updated to a more recent version (e.g. 10.x).
- Add linux-libc-dev dependency for the autopkg test. This package
gets usually broken with kernel upgrades, so let it already show
in the autopkg test.
* Run autopkg test with allow-stderr.
crash (8.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream (Closes: #950544)
* Add lintian override for zlib in embedded gdb
*
* commit ec568e2ea515b66343d3488d5d4b9a625d55b7ae
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed Nov 24 13:32:49 2021 +0900
*
* crash-7.3.0 -> crash-8.0.0
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 6bc104059b124ecac5c8244f84aae6d7cfdfe97c
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Nov 16 02:42:23 2021 +0000
*
* log: add warning to help text to inform the inaccuracy of -T option
*
* The timestamps of the "log -T" option are inaccurate because they are
* from local_clock(), which returns the raw counter in the local CPU and
* it's different from the elapsed wall time.
*
* The dmesg command, which the "log -T" option imitates, has a similar
* behavior in nature and a warning in its help text. Let's add a warning
* also to the crash's help text to inform the inaccuracy for now.
*
* Reported-by: Martin Moore <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit b0dd73d2368275e101688b2aca0bc297fd1ba300
* Author: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Nov 1 11:39:34 2021 +0000
*
* kernel: show that the kernel is tainted at init-time
*
* Explicitly indicate to the user that the Linux kernel is tainted
* at init-time or when the 'sys' command is used.
*
* Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
*
* commit 64f48ee6719632895cd8a0922e84a4626e3790d8
* Author: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Nov 1 11:39:33 2021 +0000
*
* kernel: Introduce is_kernel_tainted()
*
* Provide a quick way to test if the given Linux kernel is "tainted".
* Support for Linux-2.6.12 and above, to date.
*
* Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
*
* commit bfa596f40650e5a061b15d41b0a5b108610b11e9
* Author: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Nov 1 11:39:32 2021 +0000
*
* kernel: consolidate show_kernel_taints()
*
* No functional change.
*
* Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
*
* commit 8246dce99dd23457e8c7a3fe9609c706694d1959
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Nov 11 15:20:52 2021 +0900
*
* arm64: Update SECTION_SIZE_BITS for kernels >= 5.12
*
* Update the default SECTION_SIZE_BITS value for arm64 Linux 5.12
* and later kernels that contain kernel commit f0b13ee23241
* ("arm64/sparsemem: reduce SECTION_SIZE_BITS").
*
* Reported-by: Ankur Bansal <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 01d20ca1861ffaf449c1c60aa0536e9f42200ad3
* Author: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Nov 9 14:52:22 2021 +0100
*
* Fix live debugging with lockdown=integrity
*
* With kernel lockdown the access to kernel interfaces that allow one to
* extract confidential information (lockdown=confidentiality) or modify a
* running kernel (lockdown=integrity) can be restricted. Two of the
* interfaces that can be restricted are /dev/mem (integrity &
* confidentiality) and /proc/kcore (confidentiality). With
* lockdown=integrity this leads to a situation where /dev/mem exists but
* is not readable while /proc/kcore exists and is readable. This breaks
* crash's live debugging when it is invoked without argument, i.e.
*
* $ crash
* [...]
* crash: /dev/mem: Operation not permitted
*
* while passing /proc/kcore as image succeeds. The reason for this is
* that crash always picks /dev/mem as source when it exits but doesn't
* check if it is readable. Fix this by only selecting /dev/mem when it
* is readable.
*
* Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
*
* commit 68870c83d299603c07785e3530e33c13045c87ef
* Author: Alexander Egorenkov <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed Oct 13 10:56:39 2021 +0200
*
* Handle task_struct cpu member changes for kernels >= 5.16-rc1
*
* Kernel commit bcf9033e5449bdcaa9bed46467a7141a8049dadb
* ("sched: move CPU field back into thread_info if THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK=y")
* moved the member cpu of task_struct back into thread_info.
* Without the patch, crash fails with the following error message
* during session initialization:
*
* crash: invalid structure member offset: task_struct_cpu
* FILE: task.c LINE: 2904 FUNCTION: add_context()
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit c180a63f2cb370da6097ad97eb07333c07aa988b
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Oct 25 16:53:26 2021 +0900
*
* arm64: Use VA_BITS for page_offset calculation
*
* Commit 167d37e347fe ("arm64: assign page_offset with VA_BITS kernel
* configuration value") changed the page_offset calculation from
* using VA_BITS_ACTUAL to CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS. This caused an error
* for ramdumps without vmcoreinfo like this:
*
* crash: vmlinux and /var/tmp/ramdump_elf_XUtCMT do not match!
*
* Set the vmcoreinfo value to VA_BITS if available, and use VA_BITS
* for page_offset calculation instead.
*
* Also remove ARM64_FLIP_PAGE_OFFSET_ACTUAL because it's not used
* actually.
*
* Reported-by: Ankur Bansal <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 5c04a6f3f923af7c50f0d853477044802b3fa6ec
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:17 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Add mod_symname_hash table dump to help -s
*
* Previously, help -s only print out the dump status of symname_hash
* table. Since we have mod_symname_hash table introduced, let's print
* out mod_symname_hash in help -s as well.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit df0049d12b2ced1b6ff7350ee3c0ca28c3f7cd52
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:16 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Refactor SYMNAME_HASH_INDEX macro to be a function
*
* SYMNAME_HASH_INDEX is used as the index of symname hash table. It will
* be out of range if SYMNAME_HASH_INDEX is negative. This patch avoids
* the risk by changing the marco into a function, and casting and
* calculating the numbers as unsigned.
*
* Suggested-by: Lianbo Jiang <email address hidden>
* Suggested-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 1e23335dab6bf9f6219a23bf0be4ad9f433f4f43
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:15 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Sync module symbols into mod_symtable whenever module symbols
* change
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
*
* commit f3bee9375ed32b85e7f81a5e46a0040620553ae0
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:14 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Intergrate symbol_exists() with mod_symname_hash search
*
* This patch introduces mod_symname_hash search to symbol_exists()
* to improve its performance. And code refactoring for
* kernel_symbol_exists().
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
*
* commit 340c6ad1a0a7ce76eb5d9397833bfc6a049e2b3b
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:13 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Extend symname_hash_search() with hash table select
*
* Previously symname_hash_search() can only search symbols from kernel's
* symname_hash. This patch add hash table pointer as parameter for
* symname_hash_search(). Thus symname_hash_search() can be used both for
* symname_hash and mod_symname_hash searching.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 214f9bf3727c3350401b3f4b4389258c24486e06
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:12 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Integrate symbol_search() with mod_symname_hash search
*
* This patch introduces mod_symname_hash search to symbol_search(),
* to get a better searching performance.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
*
* commit 2fab8fbc0c4f1c4cbe889de4cead5f7457a19f77
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sat Oct 16 13:21:11 2021 +0800
*
* symbols: Implement install and remove operations for mod_symname_hash
*
* Currently the sequence for symbol_search to search a symbol is: 1)
* kernel symname hash table, 2) iterate all kernel symbols, 3) iterate
* all kernel modules and their symbols. In the worst case, if a
* non-exist symbol been searched, all 3 stages will be went through. The
* time consuming status for each stage is like:
*
* stage 1 stage 2 stage 3
* 0.007000(ms) 0.593000(ms) 2.421000(ms)
*
* stage 3 takes too much time when comparing to stage 1. This patch
* series introduces a symname hash table for kernel modules, to improve
* the performance of symbol searching.
*
* Functions symbol_search() and symbol_exists() are fundamental and
* widely used by other crash functions, thus the benefit of performance
* improvement can get accumulated. For example, "ps -m" and "irq"
* commands, which call the functions many times, will become faster with
* the patch series.
*
* This patch indroduces mod_symname_hash, and its install/remove
* operations. Since symbol_search() has to return the lowest address
* symbol and symbol_search_next() returns the next lowest symbol, thus
* the installation should be sorted ascendingly.
*
* In mod_symname_hash_install_range() scenario, spn are already arranged
* ascendingly, so for mod_symname_hash_install():
*
* Install spn previous to sp:
*
* If sp is the start of bucket, or
* 1) spn->value is smaller than sp->value.
*
* Install spn next to sp:
*
* 1) sp->name_hash_next is NULL, or
* 2) sp->name_hash_next->value is larger than spn->value
*
* spn->value is the kernel address of the symbol and will not change.
* So we use it mainly to determine the sequence. When spn->value equals
* sp->value, they must be symbols within a kernel module.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit f7e3b2d9b753793e230a5242974a111cdf139e49
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Sep 30 11:04:31 2021 +0900
*
* .gitignore: add gdb-10.2 directory
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 05a3a328fcd8920e49926b6d1c9c81ce0b6acbca
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Sep 9 15:23:27 2021 +0900
*
* Remove text value cache code
*
* The text value cache was implemented for analysis of remote dumpfiles
* using the deprecated "crash daemon" running on the remote host. On
* updating GDB to 10.2, a regression occurred when we tried to fix a
* "help -x" command problem, and there was no performance degradation
* even without the text cache, so let's drop this functionality.
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit c1e256249426dd59ceea99038451a39e98a26790
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Aug 19 10:52:58 2021 +0900
*
* Fix tab completion issues
*
* 1. The maximum number of tab completion candidates is limited to 200
* by default. Set it unlimited.
*
* 2. The output of tab completion is not wrapped with the screen width.
* Get and use it when tab completion is invoked.
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 5c2d8d2d9da6423eec076fd51049d7b4677b61c6
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Aug 17 16:21:43 2021 +0800
*
* Set gdb max-value-size to be unlimited
*
* gdb-10.2 uses max-value-size as the maximum size in bytes that the
* contents of a object may allocate. The default value of max-value-size
* is 64K. However, it could be not enough for allocating an object which
* requires larger space, and failed at the startup of crash.
*
* In gdb-7.6, there is no max-value-size check and works fine. So in
* this patch, let's just set max-value-size to be unlimited.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit b8e1f2735b8dd1303aeb2affa309a2a409a82d38
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Jul 26 09:58:54 2021 +0800
*
* Add kernel version dependent check for getting length of log_end
*
* For kernels(>=2.4.9.11 [1] && <3.5 [2]), log_end was involved in the
* kernel sources.
* For kernels(>=2.6.25 [3]), log_end was defined as:
* static unsigned log_end;
* For kernels(<2.6.25), log_end was defined as:
* static unsigned long log_end;
*
* Previously, the length of log_end is determined by get_symbol_length,
* but it can be a regression when the returned length is 0 for some
* cases and value unchecked:
*
* crash> help -t
* ...
* help: invalid size request: 0 type: "log_end"
*
* To solve the above issue, let's add a kernel version dependent check
* to get its value appropriately when the length of the 'log_end'
* returns a value of zero.
*
* [1]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/2.4.9.11/source/kernel/printk.c#L74
* [2]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v3.5/source/kernel/printk.c
* [3]: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.25/source/kernel/printk.c#L104
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 51f21b0d1c91a4ae02ebf0d8c81460ec8b6c1283
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jul 15 17:34:29 2021 +0800
*
* x86_64_irq_eframe_link_init: Fix wrong instruction searching range
* calculation
*
* In function x86_64_irq_eframe_link_init, instruction "push xxx" is
* searched in addresses range from "common_interrupt" to the next nearby
* symbol, in order to calculate the value of irq_eframe_link. The
* searching distance is given by max_instructions, which is calculated
* by end ranging address minus start ranging address. Then crash asks
* gdb to disassemble max_instructions quantity of instructions.
*
* Taking max_instructions as the quantity of disassemble instructions is
* inappropriate, because most x86_64 instructions have a length longer
* than 1, as a consequence, much more than the actual needed
* instructions get disassembled.
*
* In gdb-7.6 crash, the extra instructions are skipped by
* "if (!strstr(buf, sp->name))", which breaks if one instruction doesn't
* belongs to a symbol:
*
* 0xffffffff8005d5b4 <common_interrupt+0>: cld
* 0xffffffff8005d5b5 <common_interrupt+1>: sub $0x48,%rsp
* ...
* 0xffffffff8005d61e <common_interrupt+106>: leaveq
* 0xffffffff8005d61f <exit_intr>: mov %gs:0x10,%rcx
* <--- searching stops here
* ...
*
* In gdb-10.2 crash, "exit_intr" doesn't show, however it really exist.
* As a result, searching for "push xxx" will go to a wrong place.
*
* 0xffffffff8005d5b4 <common_interrupt+0>: cld
* 0xffffffff8005d5b5 <common_interrupt+1>: sub $0x48,%rsp
* ...
* 0xffffffff8005d61e <common_interrupt+106>: leave
* 0xffffffff8005d61f <common_interrupt+107>: mov %gs:0x10,%rcx
* <--- searching continues
* ...
*
* (gdb) p exit_intr
* $1 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0xffffffff8005d61f
* <common_interrupt+107>
* (gdb) info symbol exit_intr
* common_interrupt + 107 in section .text
*
* The previous way to determine start and end searching range is not
* stable, otherwise we may encounter regression that cmd "bt" prints
* wrong IRQ stack. This patch fix the bug by removing max_instructions
* calculation, and directly ask gdb to disassemble addresses range from
* "common_interrupt" to the next nearby symbol.
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit fce91bec5bef534e52f3261cc289a21a2cdb5fe3
* Author: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Sun Jul 11 22:30:22 2021 +0800
*
* Fix the failure of reporting vmcore and vmlinux do not match for
* kernels(<2.6.11)
*
* There is a regression issue for kernels(<2.6.11) as below:
*
* $ crash 2.6.9-68.9/vmcore 2.6.9-68.9/vmlinux.gz
* ...
* GNU gdb (GDB) 10.2
* ...
* crash: /var/tmp/vmlinux.gz_GLsAvX and 2.6.9-68.9/vmcore do not match!
*
* The reason is that it needs to read out the address of linux banner
* with readmem() first, and then the read_string() will be able to read
* the data from linux banner. So, for the kernels(<2.6.11) case, lets
* still invoke get_symbol_data() to accomplish this. See the changes:
* [1] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.10/source/init/version.c#L38
* [2] https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v2.6.11/source/init/version.c#L38
*
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <email address hidden>
*
* commit 8d6f677e54a2474b3da19402e29278b62603d71d
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jul 8 16:14:02 2021 -0700
*
* Do not adjust addr by relocate offset(KASLR)
*
* GBD symbol resolution already considers relocation (KASLR) offset.
* So, there is no needs to adjust the function address before calling
* GDB.
*
* It fixes file name and line number output for 'dis -l' and 'sys -c'
* commands.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 6c5f0c6ff5d158f2ef4fa997a052b0643d0c25ee
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:36 2021 -0700
*
* vmware_guestdump: add debugging of the init function
*
* Dump memory and registers state after parsing.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 96716862765f73676bfdb2d19fc5872364d21b73
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:35 2021 -0700
*
* vmware backend: honor silence flag
*
* Do not print any boot messages in silence (-s) mode.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
*
* commit e832e0eb5bd8d97dfa9f4bd0e22fbfad849c11df
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:34 2021 -0700
*
* Allow 'gdb disassemble' command for relocated kernel
*
* As new gdb is able to handle it properly.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 2f967fb5ebd737ce5eadba462df35935122e8865
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:33 2021 -0700
*
* crash_taget: fetch_registers support
*
* Provides API for crash_target to fetch registers of given
* CPU. It will allow gdb to perform such commands as "bt",
* "frame", "info locals".
*
* Highlevel API is crash_get_cpu_reg (). It calls machine
* (architecture) specific function: machdep->get_cpu_reg().
* Input arguments such as register number and register size
* come from gdb arch information. So, get_cpu_regs()
* implementations in crash must understand it.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 0b85218983ffcf939a638f1133871079c5615a46
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:30 2021 -0700
*
* Fix reduced output of `bt` command
*
* gdb-10 produces reduced output of `bt` command.
*
* Changed disassembler output is the reason of missing frames
* in backtrace. Call instruction mnemonic for x86_64 was changed
* from "callq" to "call" in gdb-10.
*
* Fixing the issue by adding a search for "call" word in disassembler
* parser.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Reported-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 36e9d8673e9205f4ea4daad61c199597920c93df
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:27 2021 -0700
*
* "whatis -m": fix duplications in the output
*
* "whatis -m" output started to generate duplicated results after GDB
* update:
*
* crash> whatis -m mm_struct
* SIZE TYPE
* 16 tlb_state
* ...
* 256 linux_binprm
* 2752 rq
* 2752 rq <<-- duplicated
* 2752 rq
* 2752 rq
* 2752 rq
* 4048 task_struct
*
* It was caused by incorrect string comparisons.
* Use strcmp for full string comparison instead of just string pointers
* comparison.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Reported-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 163abcbbabdf8207c11ee93b1c909d85ecbcbf1f
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Mar 19 21:07:26 2021 -0700
*
* crash_get_nr_cpus: get nr_cpus from the dumps
*
* Most of the dumps have information about real number of CPUS.
* Use that to instantiate GDB's target inferior threads.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 9fab193edb34ddf30282b5ac137f7d8078198938
* Author: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Aug 17 17:14:59 2021 +0800
*
* Update to gdb-10.2
*
* Main changes:
* [1] update gdb-7.6.patch to gdb-10.2.patch, and keep all functionality
* and good compatibility
* [2] remove unneeded patches(gdb-7.6-proc_service.h.patch and
* gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch)
* [3] to make the c++ compiler happy, add the extern "C" to eliminate
* compilation issues, also add CXXFLAGS=-m32 to generate proper
* 32bit object files
* [4] the parameter types of some functions are changed, eg, the set of
* prettyprint variables
* [5] eliminate error_hook() and SJLJ while running in C++ code (after
* gdb_command_funnel()) use try-catch mechanism instead
* [6] request_types() is redone to do not call GNU_GET_NEXT_DATATYPE
* multiple times but single usage of GNU_ITERATE_DATATYPES with proper
* callback instead. Complete iteration happens on C++ side now.
* [7] remove "struct global_iterator" from request structure, but add
* several fields (including callback pointer) to be able to perform
* iteration on C++ side
* [8] type of "linux_banner" symbol is reported as 'D' by new gdb as its
* section ".rodata" marked as writable in vmlinux
* [9] BFD API has changed.
* [10] the deprecated_command_loop_hook got deprecated. So, call crash
* main_loop() directly from gdb captured_main()
* [11] remove previously used hooks for that in target.c. Add
* crash_target for gdb to provide target operations such as xfer_partial
* to read and write crash dump memory.
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <email address hidden>
*
* commit 7f38d1baf794823355ee100b3a1914155d4190f2
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon Sep 27 09:45:42 2021 +0900
*
* diskdump: Add support for reading dumpfiles compressed by Zstandard
*
* Add support for reading dumpfiles compressed by Zstandard (zstd)
* using makedumpfile.
*
* To build crash with zstd support, type "make zstd".
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit cf0c8d10e1870d89b39f40382634db51aa8fcf2c
* Author: Hari Bathini <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Sep 3 17:33:42 2021 +0530
*
* mod: fix module object file lookup
*
* On systems where vmlinux file is not under /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules
* directory, 'mod -s|-S' command may fail to find the module's object
* file with the below error:
*
* mod: cannot find or load object file for sd_mod module
*
* Fix it by trying all possible module object file extensions while
* searching for the object file under /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules
* directory.
*
* Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <email address hidden>
*
* commit 15765867c0f1d937db5ec06f51adb6bfd13354ea
* Author: Ritesh Harjani <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Aug 26 02:31:10 2021 +0530
*
* ppc64: Add MMU type info in machdep command
*
* This adds MMU type info in "machdep" command.
*
* Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <email address hidden>
*
* commit 3db5fff2e9d7b8762d1bd46d8d2c47ba4c7e374f
* Author: Ritesh Harjani <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Aug 26 02:31:08 2021 +0530
*
* .gitignore: Add cscope, ctags & compile_commands.json
*
* Add cscope, ctags & compile_commands.json in .gitignore file.
*
* Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <email address hidden>
*
* commit 4b34197508578bb43639e6d169fb91fb0489fa2b
* Author: James Hsu <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed Aug 18 15:45:47 2021 +0800
*
* arm64: Get CPU registers from ELF notes even without crash_notes symbol
*
* Currently arm64 crash retrieves the CPU registers from crash_notes symbol
* or ELF notes only when the symbol exists, but there are dumpfiles which
* have the registers in ELF notes without the symbol.
*
* With the patch, crash can retrieve the registers from ELF notes without
* the crash_notes symbol.
*
* Signed-off-by: James Hsu <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 44e5801d9016987b6b4ebd571bfde8ae3e75da7b
* Author: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Aug 5 15:19:37 2021 +0200
*
* x86_64: Fix check for __per_cpu_offset initialization
*
* Since at least kernel v2.6.30 the __per_cpu_offset gets initialized to
* __per_cpu_load. So first check if the __per_cpu_offset was set to a
* proper value before reading any per cpu variable to prevent potential
* bugs.
*
* [ kh: added check for the existence of __per_cpu_load ]
*
* Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 881f33d97cee9895796829d0cc969b51dd34d831
* Author: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jun 17 02:27:35 2021 +0300
*
* diskdump: Introduce read_pd()
*
* Standalone function for reading of page descriptors is needed later for
* of expected core size and detection of incomplete dumps.
*
* Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 1425b0504b1e79d88a2d188d7e4c0e7fceba4501
* Author: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jun 17 02:27:34 2021 +0300
*
* diskdump: Print total number of dumpable pages
*
* It's not clear how broken an incomplete dump from the existing debugging
* prints. Aggregate number of valid pages helps to figure out approximate
* size of the dump. Size of a complete dump is roughly:
*
* EXPECTED_CORE_SIZE = a few pages (kdump headers + bitmaps + descriptors)
* (total_valid_pages * block_size) * compression rate
*
* An incomplete core would be significantly smaller than:
*
* total_valid_pages * block_size
*
* Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 41cda195c6421fbde72ed67b32b8c1ab3eb0c56f
* Author: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jun 17 02:27:33 2021 +0300
*
* netdump: Permit --zero_excluded for incomplete ELF dumps
*
* DUMP_ELF_INCOMPLETE is set very late after ENOSPC error is hit by
* makedumpfile. Any following error that prevents modification of ELF
* header would result in effectively incomplete core that doesn't have the
* flag. zero_excluded flag doesn't work for such kind of incomplete core.
*
* Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 4631320e96f8a63c897fbbce4e87e3c47af40bc9
* Author: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jun 17 02:27:32 2021 +0300
*
* diskdump: Fail readmem() early if dump is incomplete
*
* kdump format description [1] says:
*
* [...] zero page has its own offset not equal 0. So when reading page
* from incomplete core, only the page lost by ENOSPACE errors has 0 in
* its corresponding page descriptor's member offset.
*
* crash has special treatment for page descriptors with zero offset only
* if DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_INCOMPLETE is set in dump header. However,
* makedumpfile places the flag after ENOSPC is hit and only if dump
* header modification went without errors.
*
* In case if crashkernel environment was terminated early (e.g. by BMC)
* or some other reason, DUMP_DH_COMPRESSED_INCOMPLETE won't be set on
* the dump header. Then cache_page() would be performed on pages with
* pd.offset == 0 and due to pd.size == 0 it'll skip read into
* compressed_page and then non related pre-existing contents of
* compressed_page will copied into page cache for the non-present page.
*
* Ultimately, it'll lead to a cryptic failure, like:
*
* crash: invalid kernel virtual address: 72288cacacf427f8 [...]
*
* The failure would be a bit cleaner if crash explicitly fails on the
* page that is an outcome of incomplete dump:
*
* crash: page incomplete: kernel virtual address: c000003fff9d17e8 [...]
*
* Debugging level 8 would also produce exact offset from data_offset to
* print descriptor value with ease:
*
* read_diskdump/cache_page: descriptor with zero offset found at
* paddr/pfn/pos: 3fff9d0000/3fff9d/743dd
*
* That helps in inspecting broken descriptor with hexdump or similar
* tools:
*
* hexdump -s (data_offset + pos * 0x18) -n 0x18
*
* [1] https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/
* blob/master/IMPLEMENTATION
*
* Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 80334ed25820cc08d147de5da361f427885cdd9e
* Author: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Jul 13 14:24:49 2021 +0100
*
* kmem: Add support to -S option to specify a range of CPU-specific slab
* data
*
* With this patch, it is now possible for one to explicitly specify a
* range of CPU-specific slab data to list. For example:
*
* Note: This is only applicable to a Linux kernel with Kconfig
* CONFIG_SLUB enabled. The optional argument GNU extension
* for getopt(3) is utilized; and, the CPU range must be
* specified as expected
*
* crash> kmem -S=1,4 kmalloc-512
* CACHE OBJSIZE ALLOCATED TOTAL SLABS SSIZE NAME
* ffff8d3f07c06c00 512 1916 3680 115 16k kmalloc-512
* CPU 1 KMEM_CACHE_CPU:
* ffff8d461fa6f140
* CPU 1 SLAB:
* SLAB MEMORY NODE TOTAL ALLOCATED FREE
* fffff540df7c4000 ffff8d45df100000 0 32 8 24
* FREE / [ALLOCATED]
* ffff8d45df100000 (cpu 1 cache)
* [ffff8d45df100200]
* ffff8d45df101000 (cpu 1 cache)
* ...skipped ...
* CPU 4 KMEM_CACHE_CPU:
* ffff8d461fb2f140
* CPU 4 SLAB:
* SLAB MEMORY NODE TOTAL ALLOCATED FREE
* fffff540dfde3800 ffff8d45f78e0000 0 32 8 24
* FREE / [ALLOCATED]
* [ffff8d45f78e0000]
* ffff8d45f78e0200 (cpu 4 cache)
* ffff8d45f78e0400 (cpu 4 cache)
* ...skipped ...
*
* Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit f53b73e8380bca054cebd2b61ff118c46609429b
* Author: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Jul 2 10:14:24 2021 +0800
*
* arm64: implement switchable PTOV()/VTOP() for kernels >= 5.10
*
* Crash encounters a bug like the following:
* ...
* SECTION_SIZE_BITS: 30
* CONFIG_ARM64_VA_BITS: 52
* VA_BITS_ACTUAL: 48
* (calculated) VA_BITS: 48
* PAGE_OFFSET: ffff000000000000
* VA_START: ffff800000000000
* modules: ffff800008000000 - ffff80000fffffff
* vmalloc: ffff800010000000 - ffffffdfdffeffff
* kernel image: ffff800010000000 - ffff800012750000
* vmemmap: ffffffdfffe00000 - ffffffffffffffff
*
* <readmem: ffff800011c53bc8, KVADDR, "nr_irqs", 4, (FOE), b47bdc>
* <read_kdump: addr: ffff800011c53bc8 paddr: eb453bc8 cnt: 4>
* read_netdump: addr: ffff800011c53bc8 paddr: eb453bc8 cnt: 4
* offset: 1c73bc8
* irq_stack_ptr:
* type: 1, TYPE_CODE_PTR
* target_typecode: 8, TYPE_CODE_INT
* target_length: 8
* length: 8
* GNU_GET_DATATYPE[thread_union]: returned via gdb_error_hook
* <readmem: ffff000b779c0050, KVADDR, "IRQ stack pointer", 8, (ROE),
* 3a37bea0>
* <read_kdump: addr: ffff000b779c0050 paddr: fff1000bf79c0050 cnt: 8>
* read_netdump: READ_ERROR: offset not found for paddr:
* fff1000bf79c0050
* crash: read error: kernel virtual address: ffff000b779c0050 type:
* "IRQ stack pointer"
* ...
*
* Apparently, for a normal system, the 'paddr: fff1000bf79c0050' is
* unreasonable.
*
* This bug connects with kernel commit 7bc1a0f9e176 ("arm64: mm: use
* single quantity to represent the PA to VA translation"), which removed
* physvirt_offset kernel variable and changed the PTOV()/VTOP() formulas.
*
* Implement switchable PTOV()/VTOP() to cope with different kernel
* version.
*
* Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit bf1379a8b6ff8d6a8fa12978f7194f15f85c4380
* Author: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Jul 2 10:14:23 2021 +0800
*
* arm64: use dedicated bits to record the VA space layout changes
*
* arm64 memory layout experiences big changes due to the following kernel
* commits in date descending order:
* 5. 7bc1a0f9e176 arm64: mm: use single quantity to represent the PA
* to VA translation
* 4. b6d00d47e81a arm64: mm: Introduce 52-bit Kernel VAs
* 3. 5383cc6efed1 arm64: mm: Introduce vabits_actual
* 2. 14c127c957c1 arm64: mm: Flip kernel VA space
* 1. f80fb3a3d508 arm64: add support for kernel ASLR
*
* For 1, crash has already used NEW_VMEMMAP to trace it.
* For 2, crash lacks a flag to tag it and handle it differently.
* For 3, two important kernel variables vabits_actual and physvirt_offset
* are introduced.
* For 4, since it comes immediately after 3, crash-utility does not need
* to distinguish it.
* For 5, kernel variable phyvirt_offset is removed
*
* These changes have effects on PTOV()/VTOP() formula. So introducing
* two bits HAS_PHYSVIRT_OFFSET and FLIPPED_VM as hint to apply different
* formula.
*
* Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 167d37e347fe35c6f7db826e8539e192c4375564
* Author: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Jul 2 10:14:22 2021 +0800
*
* arm64: assign page_offset with VA_BITS kernel configuration value
*
* On RHEL9, crash hits a bug when executing "crash /proc/kcore":
* seek error: kernel virtual address: ffff6a0f3fff0000 type: "pmd page"
*
* The kernel virtual address does not vary with vabits_actual, instead,
* is determined by configuration value. But crash does not observe this
* fact.
*
* Since vabits_actual related kernel commit is introduced after arm64
* mm layout flip commit, so changes are safe under the condition if
* (ms->VA_BITS_ACTUAL), and keep the else branch untouched.
*
* Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit 5719afc7a40868418405a87a2711088556e68a3b
* Author: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Jul 2 10:14:21 2021 +0800
*
* arm64: rename ARM64_PAGE_OFFSET_ACTUAL to ARM64_FLIP_PAGE_OFFSET_ACTUAL
*
* Reflect the flipped layout of kernel VA, which is introduced by
* kernel commit 14c127c957c1 ("arm64: mm: Flip kernel VA space").
*
* Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <email address hidden>
*
* commit d6b4f36d6b22b70fb14e692f36d20910ef5563c1
* Author: Alexander Egorenkov <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue Jun 29 08:39:00 2021 +0200
*
* Handle task_struct state member changes for kernels >= 5.14-rc1
*
* Kernel commit 2f064a59a11ff9bc22e52e9678bc601404c7cb34 ("sched: Change
* task_struct::state") renamed the member state of task_struct to __state
* and its type changed from long to unsigned int. Without the patch,
* crash fails to start up with the following error:
*
* crash: invalid structure member offset: task_struct_state
* FILE: task.c LINE: 5929 FUNCTION: task_state()
*
* Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <email address hidden>
*
* commit 4badc6229c69f5cd9da7eb7bdf400a53ec6db01a
* Author: Petr Tesařík <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Jun 25 17:21:18 2021 +0200
*
* Fix pvops Xen detection for kernels >= v4.20
*
* Kernel commit 5c83511bdb9832c86be20fb86b783356e2f58062 removed
* pv_init_ops, and later commit 054ac8ad5ebe4a69e1f0e842483821ddbe560121
* removed the Xen-specific paravirt patch function. As a result, pvops Xen
* dumps are no longer recognized as Xen dumps, and virtual-to-physical
* translation fails.
*
* Use the value of xen_start_info to determine whether the kernel is
* running in Xen PV mode. This pointer is set during the initialization of
* a PV domain. Kudos to Juergen Gross, who suggested this check.
*
* Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <email address hidden>
*
* commit eaf14f852ae79f7745934e213661f1c6abac711e
* Author: Greg Edwards <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed Jun 23 13:50:47 2021 -0600
*
* Fix 'waitq' command for Linux 4.13 and later kernels
*
* The wait queue structs and members were renamed in 4.13 in commits:
*
* ac6424b981bc ("sched/wait: Rename wait_queue_t => wait_queue_entry_t")
* 9d9d676f595b ("sched/wait: Standardize internal naming of wait-queue
* heads")
* 2055da97389a ("sched/wait: Disambiguate wq_entry->task_list and
* wq_head->task_list naming")
*
* Add support to the 'waitq' command for these more recent kernels.
*
* [ kh: suppressed compilation warnings ]
*
* Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit f091b5e76d2d6e81b12cd40df7b5863c9e2efed1
* Author: Firo Yang <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue May 25 18:17:37 2021 +0800
*
* list: add -O option for specifying head node offset
*
* The -O option is very useful to specify the embedded head node's
* offset which is different to the offset of other nodes embedded,
* e.g. dentry.d_subdirs (the head node) and dentry.d_child.
*
* [ kh: did some cosmetic adjustments ]
*
* Signed-off-by: Firo Yang <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit e61841a8b86ac551c314f74f4b82daae84f99700
* Author: Luc Chouinard <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed Jun 9 07:59:40 2021 -0400
*
* extensions/eppic.mk: Enable use of alternate eppic branch
*
* Made significant changes and fixes to eppic.
* Using options in the clone command break due to args parsing.
* Use separate variable for clone options.
*
* Closes: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/pull/86
*
* commit c15a1e025e62134094ba0ac600263d75673d5a22
* Author: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Apr 23 15:42:11 2021 +0800
*
* MIPS64: three fixes for MIPS64 kernels
*
* Three fixes for MIPS64 kernels:
* (1) To support ramdumps, add the machine_type() check for MIPS64 in
* ramdump_to_elf().
* (2) To fix a stuck issue when invoking crash with "-d1" or larger
* debug value, add the machine_type() check to get the correct
* dump NOTE offsets.
* (3) Fix the reference file path to the definition of the pt_regs
* structure, to which mips64_regster refers.
*
* [ kh: merged three patches into one ]
*
* Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 859d1c0e8a6618634cbc1fe7ee2b082a6a3c99a1
* Author: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
* Date: Fri Apr 23 15:40:41 2021 +0800
*
* MIPS32/64: Add 'irq' command support
*
* Add support for the 'irq' series of commands in the MIPS32/64
* architecture, except for the 'irq -d' command, others can be
* used. Without the patch, the 'irq' command fails as follows:
*
* irq: cannot determine number of IRQs
*
* Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
*
* commit 704623dfde43da98ffb354b3d7f450cd012a8215
* Author: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu Jun 3 16:07:41 2021 +0800
*
* defs.h: Fix the value of TIF_SIGPENDING macro
*
* Correct the change of the value of TIF_SIGPENDING macro between
* different kernel versions.
*
* TIF_SIGPENDING changes with the kernel version as follows:
* ARM 2 -> 0 at v2.6.23
* MIPS 2 -> 1 at v2.6.23
* MIPS64 2 -> 1 at v2.6.23
* PPC 2 -> 1 at v2.6.23
* IA64 1 -> 0 at v2.6.23
* PPC64 2 -> 1 at v2.6.23
* S390 2 -> 1 at v3.16
* S390X 2 -> 1 at v3.16
*
* Signed-off-by: Youling Tang <email address hidden>
*
* commit ec44b902d3467e7b86ee39e2d7d472b9cb202148
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Mon May 31 14:08:28 2021 +0900
*
* memory: Fix for "kmem -n" option to display NID correctly
*
* The nid member of struct memory_block is a 4-byte integer, but read
* and printed as a 8-byte integer on 64-bit machines. Without the
* patch, the option displays wrong NIDs.
*
* crash> kmem -n
* ...
* MEM_BLOCK ... NODE STATE START_SECTION_NO
* ffff9edeff2b9400 ... 14195095130662240256 ONLINE 0
* ffff9edeff2bb400 ... 14195094718345379840 ONLINE 32
*
* The issue seems to appear on Linux 5.12 and later kernels that contain
* commit e9a2e48e8704c ("drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device
* in memory blocks"), which changed the arrangement of the members of
* struct memory_block.
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 0b5435e10161345cf713ed447a155a611a1b408b
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed May 26 17:33:13 2021 +0900
*
* memory: Add support for SECTION_TAINT_ZONE_DEVICE flag
*
* Fix for "kmem -n|-p" options on Linux 5.12-rc1 and later kernels
* that contain commit 1f90a3477df3f ("mm: teach pfn_to_online_page()
* about ZONE_DEVICE section collisions"). Without the patch, the
* "kmem -n" option incorrectly shows mem_map addresses containing the
* flag in bit 5 as part of the virtual address, and also the "kmem -p"
* option shows page structures at wrong position. With the patch,
* the "kmem -n" option displays the new "D" state flag.
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 647a5c33e1c94054d7b63168cd6c12901591cb77
* Author: Lianbo Jiang <email address hidden>
* Date: Thu May 27 18:02:11 2021 +0800
*
* Fix for "kmem -s|-S" option on Linux 5.7 and later kernels
*
* Linux 5.7 and later kernels that contain kernel commit 1ad53d9fa3f6
* ("slub: improve bit diffusion for freelist ptr obfuscation") changed
* the calculation formula in the freelist_ptr(), which added a swab()
* call to mix bits a little more. When kernel is configured with the
* "CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y", without the patch, the "kmem -s|-S"
* options display wrong statistics and state whether slab objects are
* in use or free and can print the following errors:
*
* ...
*
* Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <email address hidden>
*
* commit a7ecf2467f953b632713f38ab8104596755bca8c
* Author: John Donnelly <email address hidden>
* Date: Wed May 12 14:48:03 2021 -0700
*
* arm64: Add lowercase tcr_el1_t1sz
*
* Commit 1c45cea "arm64: Change tcr_el1_t1sz variable name to
* TCR_EL1_T1SZ", renamed the variable to upper case, but there are
* kernels in existence that still have the lower case name, which
* breaks crash backwards compatibility.
*
* Resolves: https://github.com/crash-utility/crash/pull/82
* Signed-off-by: John Donnelly <email address hidden>
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
* commit 1ee4c407d7874b8eef17e863671edc8ccfdd7c71
* Author: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
* Date: Tue May 18 10:18:10 2021 +0900
*
* Mark start of 7.3.1 development phase with version 7.3.0++
*
* Signed-off-by: Kazuhito Hagio <email address hidden>
*
-- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:07:01 +0100
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