Unable to use strace in embedded mips system

[Davide Palma]

Uclinux uses uclibc. Is strace supposed to work with it?

On Mer 16 Ago 2017, 17:45 Dmitry V. Levin <ldv at altlinux.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 01:37:37PM +0000, Davide Palma wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to strace an application directly in a real embedded MIPS32
> > chipset that runs uclinux.
> >
> > This is the toolchain I used to compile strace:
> > david at devuan:~$ mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc -v
> > Using built-in specs.
> >
> COLLECT_GCC=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr/bin/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real
> >
> COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr/libexec/gcc/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/5.4.0/lto-wrapper
> > Target: mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc
> > Configured with: ./configure
> > --prefix=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr
> > --sysconfdir=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/etc
> > --enable-static --target=mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc
> >
> --with-sysroot=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/sysroot
> > --disable-__cxa_atexit --with-gnu-ld --disable-libssp --disable-multilib
> > --with-gmp=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr
> > --with-mpc=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr
> > --with-mpfr=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr
> > --with-pkgversion='Buildroot 2017.05.2' --with-bugurl=
> > http://bugs.buildroot.net/ --disable-libquadmath --disable-libsanitizer
> > --enable-tls --disable-libmudflap --enable-threads --without-isl
> > --without-cloog --with-float=soft --disable-decimal-float
> > --with-arch=mips32 --with-abi=32 --enable-languages=c
> >
> --with-build-time-tools=/home/david/Downloads/buildroot-2017.05.2/output/host/usr/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/bin
> > --enable-shared --disable-libgomp
> > Thread model: posix
> > gcc version 5.4.0 (Buildroot 2017.05.2)
> >
> >
> > And this is what happens in the system:
> > # ./strace -V
> > strace -- version 4.15
> > # ./strace -dv echo foo
> > ./strace: ptrace_setoptions = 0x51
> > ./strace: PTRACE_SEIZE doesn't work
> > ./strace: new tcb for pid 323, active tcbs:1
> > ./strace: [wait(0x00177f) = 323] WIFSTOPPED,sig=SIGSTOP
> > ./strace: pid 323 has TCB_STARTUP, initializing it
> > ./strace: setting opts 0x51 on pid 323
> > ./strace: ignored SIGSTOP on pid 323
> > ./strace: [wait(0x00857f) = 323] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
> > execve(./strace: process_vm_readv: Unknown error -89
> > 0x7fad0a68, ./strace: process_vm_readv: Unknown error -89
> > 0x7fad1ebc, ./strace: process_vm_readv: Unknown error -89
> > 0x7fad1ec8./strace: [wait(0x04057f) = 323]
> > WIFSTOPPED,sig=SIGTRAP,EVENT_EXEC (4)
> > ./strace: [wait(0x00857f) = 323] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
> > ) = 0
> > ./strace: [wait(0x00857f) = 323] WIFSTOPPED,sig=133
> > ./strace: process_vm_readv: Unknown error -89
> > mmap(
> > //strace hangs up here, I press control c
> > ./strace: cleanup: looking at pid 323
> > ./strace: Process 323 detached
> > ./strace: dropped tcb for pid 323, 0 remain
> >  <detached ...>
> > #
> >
> > What do you suggest me to do?
>
> -89 == -ENOSYS on mips; looks like syscall() function provided by libc
> does not initialize errno properly.
>
>
> --
> ldv
>
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