[Regression] Segfault on native-extended-gdbserver + fork

Simon Marchi simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Mon Jan 29 17:04:00 GMT 2018


On 2018-01-29 11:58, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 01/29/2018 04:25 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> 
>> It's true that it's a bit of a lie to say "[Inferior PID detached]" if 
>> there never actually was an inferior for that PID.  Since we never 
>> print "[Inferior PID detached]" on native in that case, I am fine with 
>> removing the call from remote.c.  Sergio, that would fix the crash you 
>> found I think?
> 
> A tangent:
> 
> We should probably change that message from:
> 
>  [Inferior PID detached]
> 
> to something like:
> 
>  [Inferior ID (process PID) detached]
> 
> I.e.:
>  [Inferior 24822 detached]
> vs:
>  [Inferior 1 (process 24822) detached]
> 
> In patch form, something like this:
> 
> From 6c1db47bc19669d9c84024d09f8a63b5eb78b6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:41:25 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] change output
> 
> ---
>  gdb/inferior.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/inferior.c b/gdb/inferior.c
> index 38b7369275b..2986b510314 100644
> --- a/gdb/inferior.c
> +++ b/gdb/inferior.c
> @@ -234,7 +234,8 @@ exit_inferior (int pid)
>    exit_inferior_1 (inf, 0);
> 
>    if (print_inferior_events)
> -    printf_unfiltered (_("[Inferior %d exited]\n"), pid);
> +    printf_unfiltered (_("[Inferior %d (%s) exited]\n"),
> +		       inf->num, target_pid_to_str (ptid_t (pid)));
>  }
> 
>  void
> @@ -264,7 +265,8 @@ detach_inferior (inferior *inf)
>    exit_inferior_1 (inf, 0);
> 
>    if (print_inferior_events)
> -    printf_unfiltered (_("[Inferior %d detached]\n"), pid);
> +    printf_unfiltered (_("[Inferior %d (%s) detached]\n"),
> +		       inf->num, target_pid_to_str (ptid_t (pid)));
>  }
> 
>  /* See inferior.h.  */

Agreed.  Though I don't think Sergio's original patch is needed if we 
instead remove the detach_inferior call in remote.c, so your patch 
shouldn't be based on his.

Simon



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