[PATCH] Fix macOS null pointer dereference

Pedro Alves palves@redhat.com
Thu May 24 13:33:00 GMT 2018


Saagar, could you give this a try?

<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22960#c4> reports
that macOS gdb crashes with a null pointer dereference in
push_target(struct target_ops *).  This commit fixes that.

The problem is that commit f6ac5f3d63e0 ("Convert struct target_ops to
C++") left the darwin_ops global uninitialized.

We don't need that global anymore, we can use the (new)
get_native_target function instead for the same effect.

gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* darwin-nat.c (darwin_ops): Delete.
	(darwin_attach_pid): Use get_native_target.
---
 gdb/darwin-nat.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/darwin-nat.c b/gdb/darwin-nat.c
index 0b1a4910a3..ed1ed32898 100644
--- a/gdb/darwin-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/darwin-nat.c
@@ -97,9 +97,6 @@ static void darwin_deallocate_exception_ports (darwin_inferior *inf);
 static void darwin_setup_exceptions (struct inferior *inf);
 static void darwin_deallocate_threads (struct inferior *inf);
 
-/* Target operations for Darwin.  */
-static struct target_ops *darwin_ops;
-
 /* Task identifier of gdb.  */
 static task_t gdb_task;
 
@@ -1656,6 +1653,7 @@ darwin_attach_pid (struct inferior *inf)
 
   darwin_setup_exceptions (inf);
 
+  target_ops *darwin_ops = get_native_target ();
   if (!target_is_pushed (darwin_ops))
     push_target (darwin_ops);
 }
-- 
2.14.3



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