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author | Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> | 2015-08-12 05:36:09 -0300 |
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committer | Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> | 2015-08-12 05:36:09 -0300 |
commit | 244558af868d5427903c35c5105bf5499639f81f (patch) | |
tree | 4d837e5976c06fc18f619815cf393d2f7a5f9330 /gdb | |
parent | 0eace2105dc6c005fdc908414ad564d318b71540 (diff) | |
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[regression] Do not read from catchpoint/watchpoint locations' addresses when checking for a permanent breakpoint
While running bare-metal tests with GDB i noticed some failures in
gdb.base/break.exp, related to the use of the catch commands.
It turns out GDB tries to access memory address 0x0 whenever one tries
to insert a catchpoint, which should obviously not happen.
This was introduced with the changes for permanent breakpoints. In special,
bp_loc_is_permanent tries to check if there is a breakpoint inserted at
the same address as the current breakpoint's location's address. In the
case of catchpoints, this is 0x0.
(top-gdb) catch fork
Sending packet: $m0,1#fa...Packet received: E01
Catchpoint 4 (fork)
(top-gdb) catch vfork
Sending packet: $m0,1#fa...Packet received: E01
Catchpoint 5 (vfork)
It is not obvious to detect because this fails silently for Linux. For our
bare-metal testing, though, this fails with a clear error message from the
target about not being able to read such address.
The attached patch addresses this by bailing out of bp_loc_is_permanent (...)
if the location address is not meaningful. I also took the opportunity to
update the comment for breakpoint_address_is_meaningful, which mentioned
breakpoint addresses as opposed to their locations' addresses.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2015-08-11 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
* breakpoint.c (bp_loc_is_permanent): Return 0 when breakpoint
location address is not meaningful.
(breakpoint_address_is_meaningful): Update comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | gdb/breakpoint.c | 17 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 01e9938..4d60123 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2015-08-12 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> + + * breakpoint.c (bp_loc_is_permanent): Return 0 when breakpoint + location address is not meaningful. + (breakpoint_address_is_meaningful): Update comment. + 2015-08-11 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com> * NEWS: Mention explicit locations. diff --git a/gdb/breakpoint.c b/gdb/breakpoint.c index bffff23..a6994c7 100644 --- a/gdb/breakpoint.c +++ b/gdb/breakpoint.c @@ -6963,14 +6963,14 @@ describe_other_breakpoints (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, /* Return true iff it is meaningful to use the address member of - BPT. For some breakpoint types, the address member is irrelevant - and it makes no sense to attempt to compare it to other addresses - (or use it for any other purpose either). + BPT locations. For some breakpoint types, the locations' address members + are irrelevant and it makes no sense to attempt to compare them to other + addresses (or use them for any other purpose either). More specifically, each of the following breakpoint types will - always have a zero valued address and we don't want to mark + always have a zero valued location address and we don't want to mark breakpoints of any of these types to be a duplicate of an actual - breakpoint at address zero: + breakpoint location at address zero: bp_watchpoint bp_catchpoint @@ -9007,6 +9007,13 @@ bp_loc_is_permanent (struct bp_location *loc) gdb_assert (loc != NULL); + /* If we have a catchpoint or a watchpoint, just return 0. We should not + attempt to read from the addresses the locations of these breakpoint types + point to. program_breakpoint_here_p, below, will attempt to read + memory. */ + if (!breakpoint_address_is_meaningful (loc->owner)) + return 0; + cleanup = save_current_space_and_thread (); switch_to_program_space_and_thread (loc->pspace); |