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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [gdbserver] Uninitialized variable in 	linux-low.c:handle_extended_wait
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080711114606.GA29668@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807110337.m6B3b5FB004696@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 05:37:05AM +0200, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Note how "status" is used uninitialized if pull_pid_from_list
> returns true.  In my case, this causes the "else" branch to be
> taken, which sets "stop_expected", which causes gdbserver to
> hang later on while waiting on the SIGSTOP which actually 
> already arrived ...
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to handle this -- I assume processes
> on the stopped_pids list should always be handled as if they
> got a SIGSTOP?  The following patch fixes the hang for me ...
> 
> Does this make sense?

Completely; your patch is OK.  The code only triggers rarely, so I
just merged the version I wrote for linux-nat.c some time ago to
gdbserver.  Apparently I did it wrong :-)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-11 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-11  3:37 Ulrich Weigand
2008-07-11 11:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2008-07-12 22:24   ` Ulrich Weigand

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