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authorSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>2021-10-21 16:12:04 -0400
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>2021-10-21 16:13:56 -0400
commit183be222907a6f419bd71f70ee650989026f0188 (patch)
treeddce1e1b3a84b877e6989acb8bbd424dfff0f3b6 /gdb/gdbthread.h
parentc360a4732bd7999767616e5f211314510ea677f4 (diff)
downloadbinutils-gdb-183be222907a6f419bd71f70ee650989026f0188.tar.gz
gdb, gdbserver: make target_waitstatus safe
I stumbled on a bug caused by the fact that a code path read target_waitstatus::value::sig (expecting it to contain a gdb_signal value) while target_waitstatus::kind was TARGET_WAITKIND_FORKED. This meant that the active union field was in fact target_waitstatus::value::related_pid, and contained a ptid. The read signal value was therefore garbage, and that caused GDB to crash soon after. Or, since that GDB was built with ubsan, this nice error message: /home/simark/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/linux-nat.c:1271:12: runtime error: load of value 2686365, which is not a valid value for type 'gdb_signal' Despite being a large-ish change, I think it would be nice to make target_waitstatus safe against that kind of bug. As already done elsewhere (e.g. dynamic_prop), validate that the type of value read from the union matches what is supposed to be the active field. - Make the kind and value of target_waitstatus private. - Make the kind initialized to TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE on target_waitstatus construction. This is what most users appear to do explicitly. - Add setters, one for each kind. Each setter takes as a parameter the data associated to that kind, if any. This makes it impossible to forget to attach the associated data. - Add getters, one for each associated data type. Each getter validates that the data type fetched by the user matches the wait status kind. - Change "integer" to "exit_status", "related_pid" to "child_ptid", just because that's more precise terminology. - Fix all users. That last point is semi-mechanical. There are a lot of obvious changes, but some less obvious ones. For example, it's not possible to set the kind at some point and the associated data later, as some users did. But in any case, the intent of the code should not change in this patch. This was tested on x86-64 Linux (unix, native-gdbserver and native-extended-gdbserver boards). It was built-tested on x86-64 FreeBSD, NetBSD, MinGW and macOS. The rest of the changes to native files was done as a best effort. If I forgot any place to update in these files, it should be easy to fix (unless the change happens to reveal an actual bug). Change-Id: I0ae967df1ff6e28de78abbe3ac9b4b2ff4ad03b7
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/gdbthread.h')
-rw-r--r--gdb/gdbthread.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/gdbthread.h b/gdb/gdbthread.h
index 7beccba4272..bd8d1a2952f 100644
--- a/gdb/gdbthread.h
+++ b/gdb/gdbthread.h
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ struct thread_suspend_state
enum target_stop_reason stop_reason = TARGET_STOPPED_BY_NO_REASON;
/* The waitstatus for this thread's last event. */
- struct target_waitstatus waitstatus {};
+ struct target_waitstatus waitstatus;
/* If true WAITSTATUS hasn't been handled yet. */
int waitstatus_pending_p = 0;