[PATCH v2] Reset errno before PTRACE_PEEKUSER for MIPS DSP_CONTROL

James Hogan james.hogan@imgtec.com
Wed Sep 3 12:51:00 GMT 2014


On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 01:41:29PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, James Hogan wrote:
> 
> > PTRACE_PEEKUSER can return -1, which is usually used to determine whether
> > a system call has reported an error, so errno must be used alone to
> > determine whether an error occurred. However errno isn't modified by a
> > successful system call so it must be reset to a known value (0) before the
> > syscall call.
> > 
> > Add the missing errno reset when reading the DSP_CONTROL register in the
> > native MIPS Linux backend and the MIPS gdbserver backend.
> > 
> > gdb/:
> > 	* mips-linux-nat.c (mips_linux_read_description): Reset errno to 0
> > 	prior to reading DSP_CONTROL with PTRACE_PEEKUSER ptrace call.
> > 
> > gdb/gdbserver/:
> > 	* linux-mips-low.c (mips_read_description): Reset errno to 0 prior
> > 	to reading DSP_CONTROL with PTRACE_PEEKUSER ptrace call.
> 
>  This is fine, go ahead and apply it.  Thanks.

Thanks for reviewing it Maciej.

This is my first GDB patch submitted upstream (although I have a pile of
RFC patches for FR=1, FRE=1, MSA support I'm still getting into shape),
so I don't have push access yet. Is it easy to arrange?

Thanks
James



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