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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Re-evaluate floating varobj as part of varobj_invalidate.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vchbhgo9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <501025E0.30708@broadcom.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of "Wed,	25 Jul 2012 17:59:12 +0100")

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com> writes:

Andrew> I have a bug & patch, but no great way to reproduce the issue as
Andrew> it's a use of pointer after free issue,

I suspect the recent-ish change to use -lmcheck by default will cause us
to catch this bug in the test suite, at least on glibc-using systems.

Andrew> The patch below simply removes the special case for floating
Andrew> varobj objects from varobj_invalidate_iter, and causes them to
Andrew> be re-evaluated or marked as invalid.

Seems reasonable to me.

Andrew> 2012-07-25  Andrew Burgess  <aburgess@broadcom.com>
Andrew> 	* varobj.c (varobj_invalidate_iter): All varobj must be marked as
Andrew> 	invalid or reevaluated to prevent prevent references to possibly
Andrew> 	delete'd type objects being left in the varobj.

Patch is ok.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25 17:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-25 16:59 Andrew Burgess
2012-07-25 17:52 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-07-26  8:35   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-27  8:21     ` Andrew Burgess
2012-07-27 14:06       ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-30 12:27         ` Andrew Burgess

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