Bug #43074 MTR2 is not accessing core dumps when a path is too long

Executable path is truncated in core
If we see truncated path, try to guess using strings and grep
If that doesn't work either, use known mysqld path

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mysql-test/lib/My/CoreDump.pm b/mysql-test/lib/My/CoreDump.pm
index f3e9f521384..0591602d365 100644
--- a/mysql-test/lib/My/CoreDump.pm
+++ b/mysql-test/lib/My/CoreDump.pm
@@ -22,6 +22,33 @@ use My::Platform;
 
 use File::Temp qw/ tempfile tempdir /;
 
+my $hint_mysqld;		# Last resort guess for executable path
+
+# If path in core file is 79 chars we assume it's been truncated
+# Looks like we can still find the full path using 'strings'
+# If that doesn't work, use the hint (mysqld path) as last resort.
+
+sub _verify_binpath {
+  my ($binary, $core_name)= @_;
+  my $binpath;
+
+  if (length $binary != 79) {
+    $binpath= $binary;
+    print "Core generated by '$binpath'\n";
+  } else {
+    # Last occurrence of path ending in /mysql*, cut from first /
+    if (`strings '$core_name' | grep "/mysql[^/. ]*\$" | tail -1` =~ /(\/.*)/) {
+      $binpath= $1;
+      print "Guessing that core was generated by '$binpath'\n";
+    } else {
+      return unless $hint_mysqld;
+      $binpath= $hint_mysqld;
+      print "Wild guess that core was generated by '$binpath'\n";
+    }
+  }
+  return $binpath;
+}
+
 sub _gdb {
   my ($core_name)= @_;
 
@@ -33,7 +60,8 @@ sub _gdb {
   `gdb -c '$core_name' --batch 2>&1` =~
     /Core was generated by `([^\s\'\`]+)/;
   my $binary= $1 or return;
-  print "Core generated by '$binary'\n";
+
+  $binary= _verify_binpath ($binary, $core_name) or return;
 
   # Create tempfile containing gdb commands
   my ($tmp, $tmp_name) = tempfile();
@@ -73,7 +101,8 @@ sub _dbx {
   `echo | dbx - '$core_name' 2>&1` =~
     /Corefile specified executable: "([^"]+)"/;
   my $binary= $1 or return;
-  print "Core generated by '$binary'\n";
+
+  $binary= _verify_binpath ($binary, $core_name) or return;
 
   # Find all threads
   my @thr_ids = `echo threads | dbx '$binary' '$core_name' 2>&1` =~ /t@\d+/g;
@@ -225,7 +254,8 @@ EOF
 
 
 sub show {
-  my ($class, $core_name)= @_;
+  my ($class, $core_name, $exe_mysqld)= @_;
+  $hint_mysqld= $exe_mysqld;
 
   # On Windows, rely on cdb to be there...
   if (IS_WINDOWS)