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* [PATCH] Windows gdb: Avoid hang second attach/run
@ 2026-05-05 12:18 Pedro Alves
  2026-05-05 14:05 ` Tom Tromey
  2026-05-05 14:05 ` Tom Tromey
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Pedro Alves @ 2026-05-05 12:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

gdb.base/attach.exp starts a second inferior and tries to attach the
second inferior to the same process that inferior 1 is already
debugging.  The point is to make sure that the backend errors out when
it tries to attach to a process that is already being debugged.

windows_nat_target::attach and windows_nat_target::create_inferior
both hang in this situation, because they call into do_synchronously,
which hangs because the 'process_thread' thread is blocked in
WaitForDebugEvent.

E.g.:

  attach 4420
  FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: fail to attach again (timeout)

Until the Windows backend is taught to debug multiple processes, which
will probably require having one process_thread thread per inferior,
detect the situation and error out before GDB hangs.

This results in the following progression in gdb.base/attach.exp:

 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: fail to attach again (timeout)
 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: set confirm off (timeout)
 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: switch to inferior 1 (timeout)
 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: exit after attach failures (timeout)
 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: gdb_breakpoint: set breakpoint at main (timeout)
 -FAIL: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: stop at main (timeout)
 +PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: fail to attach again
 +PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: set confirm off
 +PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: switch to inferior 1
 +PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: exit after attach failures
 +PASS: gdb.base/attach.exp: do_attach_failure_tests: stop at main

There are still other failures not addressed by this patch.

Tests that launch a second program with "run" exist, but are normally
gated by allow_multi_inferior_tests.

Change-Id: I55b4438795439673c49fa55f55ddf0191f4f0ea8
commit-id: 1caa5be0
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach.exp |  4 ++++
 gdb/windows-nat.c                 | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach.exp
index bffdfd9b1aa..a4e7d72ef94 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/attach.exp
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ proc_with_prefix do_attach_failure_tests {} {
 	    # Response expected when using gdbserver.
 	    pass "$test"
 	}
+	-re -wrap "Can only debug one process at a time\\." {
+	    # Response expected on Windows.
+	    pass "$test"
+	}
     }
 
     # To ensure the target is still alive and working after this, try to run
diff --git a/gdb/windows-nat.c b/gdb/windows-nat.c
index a9647e90bb8..6b2a5d30132 100644
--- a/gdb/windows-nat.c
+++ b/gdb/windows-nat.c
@@ -2010,14 +2010,24 @@ set_process_privilege (const char *privilege, BOOL enable)
   return ret;
 }
 
+/* Throw an error if we're already debugging a Windows process.  We
+   can only debug one at a time currently.  */
+
+static void
+ensure_only_one_process ()
+{
+  if (windows_process->process_id != 0)
+    error (_("Can only debug one process at a time."));
+}
+
 /* Attach to process PID, then initialize for debugging it.  */
 
 void
 windows_nat_target::attach (const char *args, int from_tty)
 {
-  DWORD pid;
+  ensure_only_one_process ();
 
-  pid = parse_pid_to_attach (args);
+  DWORD pid = parse_pid_to_attach (args);
 
   if (set_process_privilege (SE_DEBUG_NAME, TRUE) < 0)
     warning ("Failed to get SE_DEBUG_NAME privilege\n"
@@ -2369,6 +2379,8 @@ windows_nat_target::detach (inferior *inf, int from_tty)
   switch_to_no_thread ();
   detach_inferior (inf);
 
+  windows_process->process_id = 0;
+
   maybe_unpush_target ();
 }
 
@@ -2811,6 +2823,8 @@ windows_nat_target::create_inferior (const char *exec_file,
   DWORD flags = 0;
   const std::string &inferior_tty = current_inferior ()->tty ();
 
+  ensure_only_one_process ();
+
   if (!exec_file)
     error (_("No executable specified, use `target exec'."));
 
@@ -3120,6 +3134,7 @@ windows_nat_target::mourn_inferior ()
       CHECK (CloseHandle (windows_process->handle));
       windows_process->open_process_used = 0;
     }
+  windows_process->process_id = 0;
   inf_child_target::mourn_inferior ();
 }
 

base-commit: 8c0ac471835ec86a67c5b42713d9f138f31e4014
-- 
2.53.0


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