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[binutils-gdb] dwarf2read.c: Check type of string valued attributes prior to decoding.
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 15:00:48 -0400
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] dwarf2read.c: Check type of string valued attributes prior to decoding.
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*** TEST RESULTS FOR COMMIT 7d45c7c3f692d93c3a33a043c347f1386681deb4 ***
Author: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
Branch: master
Commit: 7d45c7c3f692d93c3a33a043c347f1386681deb4
dwarf2read.c: Check type of string valued attributes prior to decoding.
This change introduces a new function, dwarf2_string_attr(), which is
a wrapper for dwarf2_attr(). dwarf2read.c has been updated to
call dwarf2_string_attr in most instances where a string-valued
attribute is decoded to produce a string value. In most cases, it
simplifies the code; in some instances, the complexity of the code
remains unchanged.
I performed this change by looking for instances where the
result of DW_STRING was used in an assignment. Many of these
had a pattern which (roughly) looks something like this:
struct attribute *attr = NULL;
attr = dwarf2_attr (die, name, cu);
if (attr != NULL && DW_STRING (attr))
{
const char *str;
...
str = DW_STRING (attr);
... /* Use str in some fashion. */
}
Code of this form is transformed to look like this instead:
const char *str;
str = dwarf2_string_attr (die, name, cu)
if (str != NULL)
{
...
/* Use str in some fashion. */
...
}
In addition to invoking dwarf2_attr() and DW_STRING(),
dwarf2_string_attr() checks to make sure that the attribute's
`form' field matches one of DW_FORM_strp, DW_FORM_string, or
DW_FORM_GNU_strp_alt. If it does not match one of these forms,
it will return a NULL value in addition to calling complaint().
An earlier version of this patch did this type checking for one
particular instance where a string attribute was being decoded.
The situation that I was attempting to handle in that earlier patch is
this:
The Texas Instruments compiler uses the encoding for
DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name for other purposes. TI uses the encoding,
0x2007, for TI_AT_TI_end_line which, unlike DW_AT_MIPS_linkage_name,
does not have a string-typed value. In this instance, GDB was attempting
to use an integer value as a string pointer, with predictable results.
(GDB would die with a segmentation fault.)
I've added a test which reproduces the problem that I was orignally
wanting to fix. It uses DW_AT_MIPS_linkage name with an associate
value which is a string, and again, where the value is a small
integer.
My test case causes GDB to segfault in an unpatched GDB. There
will be two PASSes in a patched GDB.
Unpatched GDB:
(gdb) ptype f
ERROR: Process no longer exists
UNRESOLVED: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.exp: ptype f
ERROR: Couldn't send ptype g to GDB.
UNRESOLVED: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.exp: ptype g
Patched GDB:
(gdb) ptype f
type = bool ()
(gdb) PASS: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.exp: ptype f
ptype g
type = bool ()
(gdb) PASS: gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.exp: ptype g
I see no regressions on an x86_64 native target.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* dwarf2read.c (dwarf2_string_attr): New function.
(lookup_dwo_unit, process_psymtab_comp_unit_reader)
(dwarf2_compute_name, dwarf2_physname, find_file_and_directory)
(read_call_site_scope, namespace_name, guess_full_die_structure_name)
(anonymous_struct_prefix, prepare_one_comp_unit): Use
dwarf2_string_attr in place of dwarf2_attr and DW_STRING.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.c: New file.
* gdb.dwarf2/dw2-bad-mips-linkage-name.exp: New file.
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