[binutils-gdb] libctf: fix assertion failure with no system qsort_r

Nick Alcock nix@sourceware.org
Fri Mar 24 14:08:41 GMT 2023


https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=ca96e367f057c068fb9f016dd7beba55d5d29d81

commit ca96e367f057c068fb9f016dd7beba55d5d29d81
Author: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 23 13:11:32 2023 +0000

    libctf: fix assertion failure with no system qsort_r
    
    If no suitable qsort_r is found in libc, we fall back to an
    implementation in ctf-qsort.c.  But this implementation routinely calls
    the comparison function with two identical arguments. The comparison
    function that ensures that the order of output types is stable is not
    ready for this, misinterprets it as a type appearing more that once (a
    can-never-happen condition) and fails with an assertion failure.
    
    Fixed, audited for further instances of the same failure (none found)
    and added a no-qsort test to my regular testsuite run.
    
    libctf/:
            PR libctf/30013
            * ctf-dedup.c (sort_output_mapping): Inputs are always equal to
            themselves.

Diff:
---
 libctf/ctf-dedup.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libctf/ctf-dedup.c b/libctf/ctf-dedup.c
index c46f69e7449..6297c45c84d 100644
--- a/libctf/ctf-dedup.c
+++ b/libctf/ctf-dedup.c
@@ -2306,6 +2306,10 @@ sort_output_mapping (const ctf_next_hkv_t *one, const ctf_next_hkv_t *two,
   ctf_id_t one_type;
   ctf_id_t two_type;
 
+  /* Inputs are always equal to themselves.  */
+  if (one == two)
+    return 0;
+
   one_gid = ctf_dynhash_lookup (d->cd_output_first_gid, one_hval);
   two_gid = ctf_dynhash_lookup (d->cd_output_first_gid, two_hval);


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