File gdb-fix-handling-of-aborted-inferior-call.patch of Package gdb
From a8669ab2846396a2eb310e969250b39bd8116920 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 09:07:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 21/25] [gdb] Fix handling of aborted inferior call
PR gdb/33069 reports the following behavior:
...
$ gdb -q ls -ex starti -ex "b *1"
Reading symbols from ls...
(No debugging symbols found in ls)
Starting program: /usr/bin/ls
Program stopped.
0x00007ffff7fe4f00 in _start () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
Breakpoint 1 at 0x1
(gdb) p (int)strlen("abc")
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint 1.
Cannot access memory at address 0x1
Command aborted.
An error occurred while in a function called from GDB.
Evaluation of the expression containing the function
(malloc@plt) will be abandoned.
When the function is done executing, GDB will silently stop.
[1]+ Stopped gdb -q ls -ex starti -ex "b *1"
$ fg
gdb -q ls -ex starti -ex "b *1"
(gdb)
...
with gdb being unresponsive to further input.
PR gdb/33068 reports a similar problem, but using gdbserver, and in that case
gdb doesn't go into the background, but is likewise unresponsive.
This is a regression since commit b1c0ab20809 ("gdb: avoid double stop after
failed breakpoint condition check"), and consequently since release gdb 14.1.
The commit changed this in run_inferior_call:
...
if (current_ui->prompt_state == PROMPT_BLOCKED)
- current_ui->unregister_file_handler ();
- else
- current_ui->register_file_handler ();
+ {
+ if (call_thread->thread_fsm ()->finished_p ())
+ async_disable_stdin ();
+ else
+ async_enable_stdin ();
+ }
...
which means current_ui->register_file_handler is no longer called in the
current_ui->prompt_state == PROMPT_NEEDED case.
Fix this by:
- restoring this behavior, fixing the unresponsiveness, and
- adding target_terminal::ours alongside it, fixing the problem that gdb goes
into the background.
Add a new test-case gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp, a regression test for the
unresponsiveness issue. The problem of gdb going into the background did not
reproduce in the test-case.
Tested on x86_64-linux.
Reviewed-By: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33068
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33069
---
gdb/infcall.c | 12 +++++--
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp
diff --git a/gdb/infcall.c b/gdb/infcall.c
index 6399278c6ae..d0c6517e84a 100644
--- a/gdb/infcall.c
+++ b/gdb/infcall.c
@@ -887,9 +887,9 @@ run_inferior_call (std::unique_ptr<call_thread_fsm> sm,
call async_enable_stdin. This changes the prompt state to
PROMPT_NEEDED.
- If the previous prompt state was PROMPT_NEEDED, then as
- async_enable_stdin has already been called, nothing additional
- needs to be done here. */
+ If the previous prompt state was PROMPT_NEEDED, then async_enable_stdin
+ may or may not have been called, so do the same changes as in
+ async_enable_stdin. */
if (current_ui->prompt_state == PROMPT_BLOCKED)
{
if (call_thread->thread_fsm ()->finished_p ())
@@ -897,6 +897,12 @@ run_inferior_call (std::unique_ptr<call_thread_fsm> sm,
else
async_enable_stdin ();
}
+ else if (current_ui->prompt_state == PROMPT_NEEDED)
+ {
+ /* Copied from async_enable_stdin. */
+ target_terminal::ours ();
+ current_ui->register_file_handler ();
+ }
/* If the infcall does NOT succeed, normal_stop will have already
finished the thread states. However, on success, normal_stop
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2a7d7844acf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/infcall-failure-2.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+# Copyright 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+standard_testfile infcall-failure.c
+
+if { [prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" $testfile $srcfile] == -1 } {
+ return
+}
+
+if { ![runto_main] } {
+ return
+}
+
+if { ![gdb_breakpoint "*0x1" message] } {
+ return
+}
+
+gdb_test "p foo ()" \
+ [multi_line \
+ [string_to_regexp "Command aborted."] \
+ ".*" ]
+
+# Check that gdb is still responsive. Regression test for PR gdb/33068.
+gdb_test "p 1 + 1" \
+ " = 2"
--
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