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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] Fix latent bug in msp430-tdep.c
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 04:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181011211023.72beeaf9@pinnacle.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180923040814.27941-6-tom@tromey.com>

On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 22:08:11 -0600
Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:

> -Wshadow=local found this latent bug.  msp430-tdep.c does:
> 
>     const gdb_byte *arg_bits;
>     {
>       /* Aggregates of any size are passed by reference.  */
>       gdb_byte struct_addr[4];
> [...
>       arg_bits = struct_addr;
>     }
>     ... use arg_bits
> 
> Here, arg_bits can point to an object that's gone out of scope.
> 
> The fix is to hoist the inner "struct_addr" buffer to an outer scope,
> and rename it to avoid shadowing.
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog
> 2018-09-22  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
> 
> 	* msp430-tdep.c (msp430_push_dummy_call): Rename inner
> 	"structs_addr" and hoist declaration.

LGTM.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-12  4:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-23  4:08 [PATCH 0/8] Add -Wshadow=local Tom Tromey
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 7/8] Shadowing fix in gdbscm_frame_read_var Tom Tromey
     [not found]   ` <6d098a36-c483-77b8-61a6-87768c29f5d5@ericsson.com>
2018-10-04 12:44     ` Tom Tromey
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 4/8] Avoid shadowing in linux-tdep.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:50   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 6/8] Avoid shadowing in fdwalk Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:54   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 2/8] Avoid shadowing in gdbserver Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:19   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 5/8] Fix latent bug in msp430-tdep.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:10   ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 8/8] Add -Wshadow=local Tom Tromey
2018-09-23  4:08 ` [PATCH 3/8] Use std::string in mdebugread.c Tom Tromey
2018-10-12  4:27   ` Kevin Buettner
2018-09-23  4:09 ` [PATCH 1/8] Simple -Wshadow=local fixes Tom Tromey
2018-10-04  3:36   ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-04 12:22     ` Simon Marchi
2018-10-04 12:43       ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-03 15:02 ` [PATCH 0/8] Add -Wshadow=local Simon Marchi
     [not found]   ` <c0393dbe-9dbe-837a-b93d-7c2825ef3649@ericsson.com>
     [not found]     ` <04748d1d-0fe6-76ad-31f1-68657f8e0d56@redhat.com>
2018-10-03 17:53       ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-05  4:57         ` Tom Tromey
2018-10-05  9:06           ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-05 11:14             ` Joel Brobecker
2018-10-05 13:37             ` [SPAM] " Tom Tromey
2018-10-05 15:58               ` Rainer Orth
2018-10-12  5:25 ` Kevin Buettner

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