[RFC PATCH] Fix segmentation fault of listing kprocess.create

Wenji Huang wenji.huang@oracle.com
Fri Nov 6 01:08:00 GMT 2009


fche@redhat.com wrote:
>>>          /* trick from visit_target_symbol_context */
>>>          target_symbol *tsym = new target_symbol;
>>>          token *t = new token;
>>>          tsym->tok = t;
>>>          tsym->base_name = "$";
>>>          tsym->base_name += arg_name;
> 
> Right, such an empty token should not exist.  (We may be able to
> remove this default constructor and force clients to fill in the
> fields immediately.)
> 
> When synthesizing new parse tree structures, the token pointer
> assigned to the new objects usually relates to the original
> script-level object that caused the synthesis.  So for example in a
> return probe that uses a saved entry-time $var, a whole new synthetic
> probe and global variables could all be assigned to the same "$var"
> token.
> 
> Perhaps the recently introduced saveargs() function should be supplied
> with an appropriate token*, for examples q.base_probe->tok.

The empty token is from my patch for 10820, sorry for the
error.  Maybe the following patch can fix that.

Regards,
Wenji

diff --git a/tapsets.cxx b/tapsets.cxx
index d2c3334..17e315e 100644
--- a/tapsets.cxx
+++ b/tapsets.cxx
@@ -2928,6 +2928,14 @@ dwarf_derived_probe::saveargs(dwarf_query& q, 
Dwarf_Die* scope_die, dwarf_var_ex
          /* trick from visit_target_symbol_context */
          target_symbol *tsym = new target_symbol;
          token *t = new token;
+        /* We hypothesize accessing the argument
+         * The source_loc will be base_loc since no real one  */
+        t->content = "$";
+        t->content += arg_name;
+        t->type = tok_identifier;
+        t->location.file = q.base_loc->tok->location.file;
+        t->location.column = q.base_loc->tok->location.column;
+        t->location.line = q.base_loc->tok->location.line;
          tsym->tok = t;
          tsym->base_name = "$";
          tsym->base_name += arg_name;



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