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Willy Tarreau 5689605c8e DEV: gdb: add a utility to find the post-mortem address from a core
More and more often, core dumps retrieved on systems that build with
-fPIE by default are becoming unexploitable. Even functions and global
symbols get relocated and gdb cannot figure their final position.
Ironically the post_mortem struct lying in its own section that was
meant to ease its finding is not exempt from this problem.

The only remaining way is to inspect the core to search for the
post-mortem magic, figure its offset from the file and look up the
corresponding virtual address with objdump. This is quite a hassle.

This patch implements a simple utility that opens a 64-bit core dump,
scans the program headers looking for a data segment which contains
the post-mortem magic, and prints it on stdout. It also places the
"pm_init" command alone on its own line to ease copy-pasting into the
gdb console. With this, at least the other commands in this directory
work again and allow to inspect the program's state. E.g:

  $ ./getpm core.57612
  Found post-mortem magic in segment 5:
    Core File Offset: 0xfc600 (0xd5000 + 0x27600)
    Runtime VAddr:    0x5613e52b6600 (0x5613e528f000 + 0x27600)
    Segment Size:     0x28000

  In gdb, copy-paste this line:

     pm_init 0x5613e52b6600

It's worth noting that the program has so few dependencies that it even
builds with nolibc, allowing to upload a static executable into containers
being debugged and lacking development tools and compilers. The build
procedure is indicated inthe source code.
2026-02-14 14:46:33 +01:00
.github CI: github: fix vtest.yml with "not quictls" 2026-01-19 13:22:10 +01:00
addons BUG/MINOR: promex: Detach promex from the server on error dump its metrics dump 2026-01-23 11:40:54 +01:00
admin MEDIUM: systemd: implement directory loading 2026-01-16 09:55:33 +01:00
dev DEV: gdb: add a utility to find the post-mortem address from a core 2026-02-14 14:46:33 +01:00
doc MINOR: jwt: Add new jwt_decrypt_jwk converter 2026-02-12 16:31:27 +01:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include MEDIUM: filters: use per-channel filter list when relevant 2026-02-13 12:24:13 +01:00
reg-tests MINOR: startup: Add HAVE_WORKING_TCP_MD5SIG in haproxy -vv 2026-02-12 18:02:19 +01:00
scripts SCRIPTS: build-vtest: allow to set a TMPDIR and a DESTDIR 2026-02-12 18:48:09 +01:00
src MEDIUM: filters: use per-channel filter list when relevant 2026-02-13 12:24:13 +01:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev4 2026-02-04 14:59:47 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile DEV: gdb: add a utility to find the post-mortem address from a core 2026-02-14 14:46:33 +01:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev4 2026-02-04 14:59:47 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev4 2026-02-04 14:59:47 +01:00

HAProxy

alpine/musl AWS-LC openssl no-deprecated Illumos NetBSD FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.