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authorGeorg Sauthoff <mail@georg.so>2018-03-01 17:23:31 -0500
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2018-03-01 17:28:59 -0500
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Improve gcore shell quoting and portability
The gcore shell script (gdb/gcore.in) doesn't quote its variables enough. For example, trying to write a core file with - say - a space ungraciously fails like this: $ gcore -o 'foo bar' 6270 /usr/bin/gcore: line 92: [: foo: binary operator expected gcore: failed to create foo bar.6270 Similarly, one can inject meta characters like * (by accident) that may yield unexpected results, e.g. as in: $ gcore -o foobar '*' This change fixes these issues in several places. Aso, since the script uses array syntax, the patch changes the the shell in the first line from `/bin/sh` to /bin/bash`. POSIX doesn't specify the array syntax for shell, thus, the script doesn't work on systems where /bin/sh is linked to - say - dash. Since the source gcore.in already is processed by a pre-processor one could even auto-detect the path to bash and thus dynamically generate the first line. For systems where bash isn't available via /bin/bash. But I think this would be overkill and /bin/bash is good enough as most systems probably have it. gdb/ChangeLog: PR gdb/22888 * gcore.in: Quote variables and switch interpreter to bash.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gdb/gcore.in14
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 5b911af..5bfbe9b 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2018-03-01 Georg Sauthoff <mail@georg.so>
+
+ PR gdb/22888
+ * gcore.in: Quote variables and switch interpreter to bash.
+
2018-03-01 Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
* dwarf2read.c (alloc_discriminant_info): Fix default_index
diff --git a/gdb/gcore.in b/gdb/gcore.in
index b7f57cd..233c00d 100644
--- a/gdb/gcore.in
+++ b/gdb/gcore.in
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@ name=core
dump_all_cmds=()
while getopts :ao: opt; do
- case $opt in
+ case "$opt" in
a)
- case $OSTYPE in
+ case "$OSTYPE" in
linux*)
dump_all_cmds=("-ex" "set use-coredump-filter off")
dump_all_cmds+=("-ex" "set dump-excluded-mappings on")
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ fi
# Check if the GDB binary is in the expected path. If not, just
# quit with a message.
-if [ ! -f "$binary_path"/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@ ]; then
+if [ ! -f "$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" ]; then
echo "gcore: GDB binary (${binary_path}/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@) not found"
exit 1
fi
@@ -93,16 +93,16 @@ fi
rc=0
# Loop through pids
-for pid in $*
+for pid in "$@"
do
# `</dev/null' to avoid touching interactive terminal if it is
# available but not accessible as GDB would get stopped on SIGTTIN.
- $binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@ </dev/null --nx --batch \
+ "$binary_path/@GDB_TRANSFORM_NAME@" </dev/null --nx --batch \
-ex "set pagination off" -ex "set height 0" -ex "set width 0" \
"${dump_all_cmds[@]}" \
-ex "attach $pid" -ex "gcore $name.$pid" -ex detach -ex quit
- if [ -r $name.$pid ] ; then
+ if [ -r "$name.$pid" ] ; then
rc=0
else
echo "@GCORE_TRANSFORM_NAME@: failed to create $name.$pid"