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[PATCHv2] gdb/remote: Restore support for 'S' stop reply packet
- From: Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:17:04 +0000
- Subject: [PATCHv2] gdb/remote: Restore support for 'S' stop reply packet
- References: <80314590-ba73-26f5-830d-698ff4ecb2d8@redhat.com>
Pedro,
Thanks for your feedback. I agree with all your points, this version
of the patch:
1. Doesn't query the target for the current thread, but just uses
the first non-exited thread.
2. Gives a warning if the target has more than one non-exited
thread.
3. Commit message is revised to reflect new implementation.
How's this?
Thanks,
Andrew
---
With this commit:
commit 5b6d1e4fa4fc6827c7b3f0e99ff120dfa14d65d2
Date: Fri Jan 10 20:06:08 2020 +0000
Multi-target support
There was a regression in GDB's support for older aspects of the
remote protocol. Specifically, when a target sends the 'S' stop reply
packet, which doesn't include a thread-id, then GDB has to figure out
which thread actually stopped.
Before the above commit GDB figured this out by using inferior_ptid in
process_stop_reply, which contained the ptid of the current
process/thread. With the above commit the inferior_ptid now has the
value null_ptid inside process_stop_reply, this can be seen in
do_target_wait, where we call switch_to_inferior_no_thread before
calling do_target_wait_1.
The solution I propose in this commit is to use the first non exited
thread of the inferior. Additionally, GDB will give a warning if a
multi-threaded target stops without passing a thread-id.
There's no test included with this commit, if anyone has any ideas for
how we could test this aspect of the remote protocol (short of writing
a new gdbserver) then I'd love to know.
It is possible to trigger this bug by attaching GDB to a running GDB,
place a breakpoint on remote_parse_stop_reply, and manually change the
contents of buf - when we get a 'T' based stop packet, replace it with
an 'S' based packet, like this:
(gdb) call memset (buf, "S05\0", 4)
After this the GDB that is performing the remote debugging will crash
with this error:
inferior.c:279: internal-error: inferior* find_inferior_pid(process_stratum_target*, int): Assertion `pid != 0' failed.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* remote.c (remote_target::process_stop_reply): Use the first
non-exited thread if the target didn't pass a thread-id.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/remote.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/remote.c b/gdb/remote.c
index 4a70ab3fb0d..4ac359ad5d9 100644
--- a/gdb/remote.c
+++ b/gdb/remote.c
@@ -7668,10 +7668,22 @@ remote_target::process_stop_reply (struct stop_reply *stop_reply,
*status = stop_reply->ws;
ptid = stop_reply->ptid;
- /* If no thread/process was reported by the stub, assume the current
- inferior. */
+ /* If no thread/process was reported by the stub then use the first
+ non-exited thread in the current inferior. */
if (ptid == null_ptid)
- ptid = inferior_ptid;
+ {
+ for (thread_info *thr : all_non_exited_threads (this))
+ {
+ if (ptid != null_ptid)
+ {
+ warning (_("multi-threaded target stopped without sending "
+ "a thread-id, using first non-exited thread"));
+ break;
+ }
+ ptid = thr->ptid;
+ }
+ gdb_assert (ptid != null_ptid);
+ }
if (status->kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED
&& status->kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED
--
2.14.5