[PATCH] [gdb/python] Make gdb.UnwindInfo.add_saved_register more robust

Tom de Vries tdevries@suse.de
Sat Mar 2 12:36:53 GMT 2024


On arm-linux, until commit bbb12eb9c84 ("gdb/arm: Remove tpidruro register
from non-FreeBSD target descriptions") I ran into:
...
FAIL: gdb.base/inline-frame-cycle-unwind.exp: cycle at level 5: \
  backtrace when the unwind is broken at frame 5
...

What happens is the following:
- the TestUnwinder from inline-frame-cycle-unwind.py calls
  gdb.UnwindInfo.add_saved_register with reg == tpidruro and value
  "<unavailable>",
- pyuw_sniffer calls value->contents ().data () to access the value of the
  register, which throws an UNAVAILABLE_ERROR,
- this causes the TestUnwinder unwinder to fail, after which another unwinder
  succeeds and returns the correct frame, and
- the test-case fails because it's counting on the TestUnwinder to succeed and
  return an incorrect frame.

Fix this by checking for !value::entirely_available as well as
valued::optimized_out in unwind_infopy_add_saved_register.

Tested on x86_64-linux and arm-linux.

PR python/31437
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31437
---
 gdb/python/py-unwind.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/python/py-unwind.c b/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
index 56f925bc57f..1c1289f7e7d 100644
--- a/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
+++ b/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
@@ -362,6 +362,18 @@ unwind_infopy_add_saved_register (PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
       return nullptr;
     }
 
+  if (value->optimized_out () || !value->entirely_available ())
+    {
+      /* If we allow this value to be registered here, pyuw_sniffer is going
+	 to run into an exception when trying to access its contents.
+	 Throwing an exception here just puts a burden on the user to
+	 implement the same checks on the user side.  We could return False
+	 here and True otherwise, but again that might require changes in user
+	 code.  So, handle this with minimal impact for the user, while
+	 improving robustness: silently ignore the register/value pair.  */
+      Py_RETURN_NONE;
+    }
+
   gdbpy_ref<> new_value = gdbpy_ref<>::new_reference (pyo_reg_value);
   bool found = false;
   for (saved_reg &reg : *unwind_info->saved_regs)

base-commit: a6a3b67fa9052bba81ed91a38569c11ecb95baf1
-- 
2.35.3



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