// Copyright (c) 2026 Petr BalvĂ­n (https://petrbalvin.org) // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause //go:build linux package debug import ( "fmt" "os" "os/exec" "path/filepath" "runtime" "strings" "syscall" "time" ) // Session is a ptrace debugging session controlling one debuggee process. type Session struct { pid int cmd *exec.Cmd stopped bool exited bool codeBase uint64 // base address of the JIT code in the debuggee tmpDir string // scratch directory of the session, removed on Kill wpSlots [16]bool // hardware watchpoint slots in use (DR0-DR3, arm64 DBGWVR0-15) // lastSignal holds the signal of the most recent stop when that stop // was a genuine signal-delivery-stop the caller must see (a fault such // as SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGFPE or SIGILL); 0 for breakpoint traps, // single-steps, SIGSTOP and suppressed runtime signals. lastSignal syscall.Signal } // Launch starts the debuggee subprocess (gasm debug --target ...) and // attaches to it via ptrace. func Launch(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName string, args []byte) (*Session, error) { sess, _, err := LaunchWithBuffers(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName, args, "") return sess, err } // LaunchWithBuffers is like Launch but also allocates buffers in the debuggee. // // It pins the calling goroutine to its OS thread and leaves it pinned: the // debuggee's PTRACE_TRACEME binds the tracer relation to the forking thread, // and every ptrace request on the session must come from that same thread. // All Session methods must therefore be called from the goroutine that // launched the session (the REPL and coverage loops do exactly that). func LaunchWithBuffers(gasmBin, asmPath, funcName string, args []byte, bufSpec string) (*Session, []uint64, error) { runtime.LockOSThread() // ptrace requests must stay on the forking thread self, err := os.Executable() if err != nil { return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: cannot find gasm binary: %w", err) } if gasmBin != "" { self = gasmBin } tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", "gasm-debug-*") if err != nil { return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: tempdir: %w", err) } argsFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "args.bin") if err := os.WriteFile(argsFile, args, 0o644); err != nil { os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: write args: %w", err) } if bufSpec != "" { if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(tmpDir, "bufspec"), []byte(bufSpec), 0o644); err != nil { os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: write bufspec: %w", err) } } cmd := exec.Command(self, "debug", "--func", funcName, "--args", argsFile, asmPath) cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "GASM_DEBUG_TARGET=1", "GASM_DEBUG_TMP="+tmpDir) cmd.Stdout = nil cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{} if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil { os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: start debuggee: %w", err) } s := &Session{pid: cmd.Process.Pid, cmd: cmd, tmpDir: tmpDir} readyFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "ready") for range 500 { if _, err := os.Stat(readyFile); err == nil { break } time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond) } // The debuggee parks itself with SIGSTOP once the JIT code is mapped. // A Go tracee also reports SIGURG preemption as signal-delivery-stops, // so the wait loops until a stop the debugger cares about instead of // assuming the first event is the SIGSTOP. if _, err := s.waitStopped(); err != nil { cmd.Process.Kill() os.RemoveAll(tmpDir) return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("debug: wait for debuggee: %w", err) } s.stopped = true // The debuggee reports its JIT mapping in the codebase file; that is the // exact region the kernel was written to. Scanning /proc/pid/maps for // any RWX region is only the fallback. if data, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(tmpDir, "codebase")); err == nil { fmt.Sscanf(string(data), "%d", &s.codeBase) } if s.codeBase == 0 { s.codeBase = findRWXMapping(s.pid) } var bufAddrs []uint64 if bufSpec != "" { addrFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "bufaddrs") if data, err := os.ReadFile(addrFile); err == nil { for line := range strings.SplitSeq(strings.TrimSpace(string(data)), "\n") { var addr uint64 if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(line, "%d", &addr); err == nil { bufAddrs = append(bufAddrs, addr) } } } } return s, bufAddrs, nil } // waitStopped consumes ptrace-stop events until one the debugger cares // about arrives: SIGTRAP (a breakpoint or a completed single-step), the // debuggee's own SIGSTOP, or a genuine signal-delivery-stop. A Go tracee's // runtime raises SIGURG for asynchronous preemption, and every signal on a // traced thread surfaces as a signal-delivery-stop, so SIGURG is suppressed // and the tracee resumed without it. Every other signal (SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, // SIGFPE, SIGILL, ...) is returned to the caller: resuming with signal 0 // would restart the faulting instruction and fault forever, so a faulting // kernel must surface as a stop the caller reports. Runtime noise is also // why a single wait can return in the middle of runtime code and a resume // can then fail: the event stream must be drained by the tracer. func (s *Session) waitStopped() (syscall.Signal, error) { for { var ws syscall.WaitStatus if _, err := syscall.Wait4(s.pid, &ws, syscall.WUNTRACED, nil); err != nil { return 0, err } if ws.Exited() { s.exited = true return 0, fmt.Errorf("debuggee exited with status %d", ws.ExitStatus()) } if ws.Signaled() { s.exited = true return 0, fmt.Errorf("debuggee killed by signal %v", ws.Signal()) } switch sig := ws.StopSignal(); sig { case syscall.SIGTRAP, syscall.SIGSTOP: s.stopped = true s.lastSignal = 0 return sig, nil case syscall.SIGURG: // Go runtime asynchronous preemption: resume the tracee // without delivering the signal. s.lastSignal = 0 if _, _, errno := syscall.Syscall6( syscall.SYS_PTRACE, uintptr(syscall.PTRACE_CONT), uintptr(s.pid), 0, 0, 0, 0, ); errno != 0 { return 0, fmt.Errorf("debug: PTRACE_CONT: %w", errno) } default: // A genuine signal-delivery-stop. Report it; the caller // decides how to proceed. s.stopped = true s.lastSignal = sig return sig, nil } } } // LastSignal returns the signal of the most recent stop when that stop was // a genuine signal-delivery-stop (a fault such as SIGSEGV, SIGFPE, SIGILL // or SIGBUS), and 0 for breakpoint traps, single-steps, SIGSTOP and // suppressed runtime signals. func (s *Session) LastSignal() syscall.Signal { return s.lastSignal } // Peek reads a word (8 bytes) from the debuggee's memory at addr. func (s *Session) Peek(addr uint64) (uint64, error) { mem, err := os.OpenFile(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/%d/mem", s.pid), os.O_RDONLY, 0) if err != nil { return 0, fmt.Errorf("debug: open /proc/%d/mem: %w", s.pid, err) } defer mem.Close() buf := make([]byte, 8) if _, err := mem.ReadAt(buf, int64(addr)); err != nil { return 0, fmt.Errorf("debug: read mem %#x: %w", addr, err) } return uint64(buf[0]) | uint64(buf[1])<<8 | uint64(buf[2])<<16 | uint64(buf[3])<<24 | uint64(buf[4])<<32 | uint64(buf[5])<<40 | uint64(buf[6])<<48 | uint64(buf[7])<<56, nil } // Poke writes a word (8 bytes) to the debuggee's memory at addr. func (s *Session) Poke(addr, val uint64) error { mem, err := os.OpenFile(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/%d/mem", s.pid), os.O_WRONLY, 0) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("debug: open /proc/%d/mem: %w", s.pid, err) } defer mem.Close() buf := []byte{byte(val), byte(val >> 8), byte(val >> 16), byte(val >> 24), byte(val >> 32), byte(val >> 40), byte(val >> 48), byte(val >> 56)} if _, err := mem.WriteAt(buf, int64(addr)); err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("debug: write mem %#x: %w", addr, err) } return nil } // ReadMemory reads len bytes from the debuggee's memory at addr. func (s *Session) ReadMemory(addr uint64, length int) ([]byte, error) { out := make([]byte, length) for i := 0; i < length; i += 8 { word, err := s.Peek(addr + uint64(i)) if err != nil { return out[:i], err } for j := 0; j < 8 && i+j < length; j++ { out[i+j] = byte(word >> (8 * j)) } } return out, nil } // WriteMemory writes bytes to the debuggee's memory at addr. func (s *Session) WriteMemory(addr uint64, data []byte) error { for i := 0; i < len(data); i += 8 { end := min(i+8, len(data)) var word uint64 for j := 0; j < end-i; j++ { word |= uint64(data[i+j]) << (8 * j) } if end-i < 8 { existing, err := s.Peek(addr + uint64(i)) if err != nil { return err } mask := ^((uint64(1) << (8 * (end - i))) - 1) word = (existing & mask) | word } if err := s.Poke(addr+uint64(i), word); err != nil { return err } } return nil } // Step executes a single instruction in the debuggee. func (s *Session) Step() error { if s.exited { return fmt.Errorf("debug: debuggee has exited") } _, _, errno := syscall.Syscall6( syscall.SYS_PTRACE, uintptr(syscall.PTRACE_SINGLESTEP), uintptr(s.pid), 0, 0, 0, 0, ) if errno != 0 { return fmt.Errorf("debug: PTRACE_SINGLESTEP: %w", errno) } _, err := s.waitStopped() return err } // Continue resumes execution until the next breakpoint or exit. func (s *Session) Continue() error { if s.exited { return fmt.Errorf("debug: debuggee has exited") } _, _, errno := syscall.Syscall6( syscall.SYS_PTRACE, uintptr(syscall.PTRACE_CONT), uintptr(s.pid), 0, 0, 0, 0, ) if errno != 0 { return fmt.Errorf("debug: PTRACE_CONT: %w", errno) } _, err := s.waitStopped() return err } // Exited returns true if the debuggee has terminated. func (s *Session) Exited() bool { return s.exited } // Pid returns the debuggee's process ID. func (s *Session) Pid() int { return s.pid } // CodeBase returns the base address of the JIT code in the debuggee. func (s *Session) CodeBase() uint64 { return s.codeBase } // Kill terminates the debuggee and removes the session's scratch // directory, so a successful session leaves no gasm-debug-* debris behind. func (s *Session) Kill() { if !s.exited { syscall.Kill(s.pid, syscall.SIGKILL) syscall.Wait4(s.pid, nil, 0, nil) s.exited = true } if s.cmd != nil && s.cmd.Process != nil { s.cmd.Wait() } if s.tmpDir != "" { os.RemoveAll(s.tmpDir) s.tmpDir = "" } } // execRange is one executable mapping of the debuggee. type execRange struct { lo, hi uint64 } // execRanges parses the debuggee's executable mappings from /proc/pid/maps. func execRanges(pid int) []execRange { data, err := os.ReadFile(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/%d/maps", pid)) if err != nil { return nil } var out []execRange for line := range strings.SplitSeq(string(data), "\n") { fields := strings.Fields(line) if len(fields) < 2 || !strings.Contains(fields[1], "x") { continue } var lo, hi uint64 if _, err := fmt.Sscanf(fields[0], "%x-%x", &lo, &hi); err == nil { out = append(out, execRange{lo, hi}) } } return out } // findRWXMapping reads /proc/pid/maps and returns the base address of the // first read-write-execute mapping (the JIT code region). func findRWXMapping(pid int) uint64 { data, err := os.ReadFile(fmt.Sprintf("/proc/%d/maps", pid)) if err != nil { return 0 } for line := range strings.SplitSeq(string(data), "\n") { fields := strings.Fields(line) if len(fields) < 2 { continue } perms := fields[1] if len(perms) >= 3 && perms[0] == 'r' && perms[1] == 'w' && perms[2] == 'x' { var start uint64 fmt.Sscanf(fields[0], "%x-", &start) return start } } return 0 }