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Re: gdbserver with reversed arguments goes into an infinite loop


On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 04:45:53PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote:
> But may be it would be better to open only character device (S_ISCHR 
> macro) than excluding ordinary files (S_ISREG macro). It's up to you !

Good idea.  FIFOs are OK too.  I've committed a nicer version of this.

> I took this opportunity to remove a warning on a strncpy() usage.

Why did it warn?  I omitted this bit, because I don't see any reason
(or any warning).

> I'm wondering about the compilation of this code under windows. I never 
> compiled a gdbserver on windows, is there any gdbserver hosted under 
> windows ?

If you were working against HEAD, you'd see that there was now - but
we don't support serial ports there, so it's not a problem.  It's all
#ifdef'd out.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

2006-12-30  Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>
	    Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>

	* remote-utils.c (remote_open): Check the type of specified
	serial port devices before opening them.
	* server.c (main): Kill the inferior if an error occurs during
	the first remote_open.

Index: remote-utils.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbserver/remote-utils.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34
diff -u -p -r1.34 remote-utils.c
--- remote-utils.c	16 Nov 2006 15:08:25 -0000	1.34
+++ remote-utils.c	30 Dec 2006 15:23:37 -0000
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@
 #if HAVE_ARPA_INET_H
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 #endif
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 #if USE_WIN32API
 #include <winsock.h>
@@ -94,13 +96,25 @@ remote_open (char *name)
 #if defined(F_SETFL) && defined (FASYNC)
   int save_fcntl_flags;
 #endif
-  
-  if (!strchr (name, ':'))
+  char *port_str;
+
+  port_str = strchr (name, ':');
+  if (port_str == NULL)
     {
 #ifdef USE_WIN32API
       error ("Only <host>:<port> is supported on this platform.");
 #else
-      remote_desc = open (name, O_RDWR);
+      struct stat statbuf;
+
+      if (stat (name, &statbuf) == 0
+	  && (S_ISCHR (statbuf.st_mode) || S_ISFIFO (statbuf.st_mode)))
+	remote_desc = open (name, O_RDWR);
+      else
+	{
+	  errno = EINVAL;
+	  remote_desc = -1;
+	}
+
       if (remote_desc < 0)
 	perror_with_name ("Could not open remote device");
 
Index: server.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbserver/server.c,v
retrieving revision 1.42
diff -u -p -r1.42 server.c
--- server.c	16 Nov 2006 15:08:25 -0000	1.42
+++ server.c	30 Dec 2006 15:23:37 -0000
@@ -614,6 +614,13 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
     }
 
+  if (setjmp (toplevel))
+    {
+      fprintf (stderr, "Killing inferior\n");
+      kill_inferior ();
+      exit (1);
+    }
+
   while (1)
     {
       remote_open (argv[1]);


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