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Re: [PATCH, gdbsim] Avoid silly crash when no binary is loaded
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: lgustavo at codesourcery dot com
- Cc: "'gdb-patches at sourceware dot org'" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:19:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH, gdbsim] Avoid silly crash when no binary is loaded
- References: <51C0C7E3 dot 1030603 at codesourcery dot com>
On 06/18/2013 09:49 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch prevents the long-standing crash scenario where we start
> gdbsim and "run" without any binaries. Warnings are issued, but those
> don't prevent the simulator from proceeding with garbage data.
Which sim and backtrace? I suspect this to be sim/arch dependent.
>
> Replacing those warnings with error calls seems to be the most
> appropriate here.
Well, the code seems to have been written like that for a reason.
Real boards can be powered on with no real program in memory
too...
> if (exec_file == 0 || exec_bfd == 0)
> - warning (_("No executable file specified."));
> + error (_("No executable file specified."));
> if (!sim_data->program_loaded)
> - warning (_("No program loaded."));
> + error (_("No program loaded."));
>
There's code just below that does:
> if (remote_debug)
> printf_filtered ("gdbsim_create_inferior: exec_file \"%s\", args \"%s\"\n",
...
> if (exec_file != NULL)
> {
> len = strlen (exec_file) + 1 + strlen (args) + 1 + /*slop */ 10;
> arg_buf = (char *) alloca (len);
> arg_buf[0] = '\0';
> strcat (arg_buf, exec_file);
> strcat (arg_buf, " ");
> strcat (arg_buf, args);
> argv = gdb_buildargv (arg_buf);
> make_cleanup_freeargv (argv);
> }
> else
> argv = NULL;
So if we error out, then these NULL checks are now dead.
And e.g., the bfin sim, at sim/bfin/interp.c:sim_create_inferior
allows NULL exec_bfd:
SIM_RC
sim_create_inferior (SIM_DESC sd, struct bfd *abfd,
char **argv, char **env)
{
SIM_CPU *cpu = STATE_CPU (sd, 0);
SIM_ADDR addr;
/* Set the PC. */
if (abfd != NULL)
addr = bfd_get_start_address (abfd);
else
addr = 0;
sim_pc_set (cpu, addr);
--
Pedro Alves