How to use a logical address with an FS or GS base in gdb?
how can i read the memory at "%gs:0x14" in gdb
You can't: there is no way for GDB to know how the segment to which %gs
refers to has been set up.
or translate this logical address to a linear address that i could use in x command
Again, you can't do this in general. However, you appear to be on 32-bit x86 Linux, and there you can do that -- the %gs
is set up to point to the thread descriptor via set_thread_area
system call.
You can do catch syscall set_thread_area
in GDB, and examine the parameters (each thread will have one such call). The code to actually do that is here. Once you know how %gs
has been set up, just add 0x14 to the base_addr
, and you are done.
As answered in Using GDB to read MSRs, this is possible with gdb 8, using the registers $fs_base
and $gs_base
.