Can't see symbols from Erlang NIF library in core file

[Lukas Larsson]

Hello!

Did you manage to figure out how to get symbols for your nif? There should
not be anything special that you have to do other than compiling the nif
with debug symbols. Could it be the 3rd party C library that does not have
symbols?

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 7:38 PM Attila Rajmund Nohl <attila.r.nohl@REDACTED>
wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm working on an Erlang wrapper over a 3rd party C library on Ubuntu
> Linux on x86, so I'm creating a NIF. Sometimes my code (I think)
> crashes, resulting in a core file. Unfortunately the stacktrace is not
> really helpful:
>
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00007fc22229968a in ?? ()
> #1  0x0000000060e816d8 in ?? ()
> #2  0x0000000007cd48b0 in ?? ()
> #3  0x00007fc228031410 in ?? ()
> #4  0x00007fc228040b80 in ?? ()
> #5  0x00007fc228040c50 in ?? ()
> #6  0x00007fc22223de0b in ?? ()
> #7  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>
> even though I built my NIF .so file with debug info:
>
> ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
> linked, BuildID[sha1]=b70dd1f2450f5c0e9980c8396aaad2e1cd29024c, with
> debug_info, not stripped
>
> The beam binary also has debug info:
>
> ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
> linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2,
> BuildID[sha1]=e0a5dba6507b8c2b333faebc89fbc6ea2f7263b9, for GNU/Linux
> 3.2.0, with debug_info, not stripped
>
> However, info sharedlibrary doesn't show neither the NIF nor the 3rd party
> lib:
>
> (gdb) info sharedlibrary
> From                To                  Syms Read   Shared Object Library
> 0x00007fc28942ed50  0x00007fc289432004  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0
> 0x00007fc289429220  0x00007fc28942a179  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2
> 0x00007fc2892e83c0  0x00007fc28938ef18  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6
> 0x00007fc2892b76a0  0x00007fc2892c517c  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6
> 0x00007fc28928dae0  0x00007fc28929d4d5  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0
> 0x00007fc2890b9630  0x00007fc28922e20d  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
> 0x00007fc289657100  0x00007fc289679674  Yes (*)
>  /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
> 0x00007fc24459c040  0x00007fc2445ab8ad  Yes
> /home/nar/otp/23.3.4.2/lib/crypto-4.9.0.2/priv/lib/crypto.so
> 0x00007fc2239e3000  0x00007fc223b7c800  Yes (*)
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1
> 0x00007fc2896500e0  0x00007fc28965028c  Yes
> /home/nar/otp/23.3.4.2/lib/crypto-4.9.0.2/priv/lib/crypto_callback.so
> 0x00007fc289649380
> <http://23.3.4.2/lib/crypto-4.9.0.2/priv/lib/crypto_callback.so0x00007fc289649380>
> 0x00007fc28964bc1c  Yes
> /home/nar/otp/23.3.4.2/lib/asn1-5.0.15/priv/lib/asn1rt_nif.so
> 0x00007fc289638720  0x00007fc28963bd70  Yes
> /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1
>

The asn1rt_nif.so and crypto.so nifs have no special treatment and are
loaded in exactly the same way as a user-defined nif. So there is most
likely something different/wrong with how your nif is compiled and/or
loaded.


>
> I found an answer at stackoverflow
> (https://stackoverflow.com/a/32727752/2414208) mentioning that "The
> Erlang VM doesn't load NIF libraries with global symbols exposed".
> Could this be the reason why I don't see the symbols? Is there a way
> to tell gdb to look up symbols from my .so file?
>

I don't think the stackoverflow question is related to your problem as it
seems to be related to symbols not resolving when doing dlopen and not when
using gdb.
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