[all-commits] [llvm/llvm-project] 8e8da8: [lldb] Fix SIGSEGV in `GetPtraceScope()` in `Procf...

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  Branch: refs/heads/main
  Home:   https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
  Commit: 8e8da88d46dcb1ba6ffe266779dd047fa772497e
      https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e8da88d46dcb1ba6ffe266779dd047fa772497e
  Author: royitaqi <royitaqi at users.noreply.github.com>
  Date:   2025-06-02 (Mon, 02 Jun 2025)

  Changed paths:
    M lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/Procfs.cpp
    M lldb/unittests/Process/Linux/ProcfsTests.cpp

  Log Message:
  -----------
  [lldb] Fix SIGSEGV in `GetPtraceScope()` in `Procfs.cpp` (#142224)

# Symptom

We have seen SIGSEGV like this:
```
* thread #1, name = 'lldb-server', stop reason = SIGSEGV
    frame #0: 0x00007f39e529c993 libc.so.6`__pthread_kill_internal(signo=11, threadid=<unavailable>) at pthread_kill.c:46:37
    ...
  * frame #5: 0x000056027c94fe48 lldb-server`lldb_private::process_linux::GetPtraceScope() + 72
    frame #6: 0x000056027c92f94f lldb-server`lldb_private::process_linux::NativeProcessLinux::Attach(int) + 1087
    ...
```
See [full stack trace](https://pastebin.com/X0d6QhYj).

This happens on Linux where LLDB doesn't have access to
`/proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope`.

A similar error (an unchecked `Error`) can be reproduced by running the
newly added unit test without the fix. See the "Test" section below.


# Root cause

`GetPtraceScope()`
([code](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/328f40f408c218f25695ea42c844e43bef38660b/lldb/source/Plugins/Process/Linux/Procfs.cpp#L77))
has the following `if` statement:
```
llvm::Expected<int> lldb_private::process_linux::GetPtraceScope() {
  ErrorOr<std::unique_ptr<MemoryBuffer>> ptrace_scope_file =
      getProcFile("sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope");
  if (!*ptrace_scope_file)
    return errorCodeToError(ptrace_scope_file.getError());
  ...
}
```

The intention of the `if` statement is to check whether the
`ptrace_scope_file` is an `Error` or not, and return the error if it is.
However, the `operator*` of `ErrorOr` returns the value that is stored
(which is a `std::unique_ptr<MemoryBuffer>`), so what the `if` condition
actually do is to check if the unique pointer is non-null.

Note that the method `ErrorOr::getStorage()` ([called
by](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/328f40f408c218f25695ea42c844e43bef38660b/llvm/include/llvm/Support/ErrorOr.h#L162-L164)
`ErrorOr::operator *`) **does** assert on whether or not `HasError` has
been set (see
[ErrorOr.h](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/328f40f408c218f25695ea42c844e43bef38660b/llvm/include/llvm/Support/ErrorOr.h#L235-L243)).
However, it seems this wasn't executed, probably because the LLDB was a
release build.

# Fix

The fix is simply remove the `*` in the said `if` statement.



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