From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: fix filename matching in skiplist_entry::do_skip_gfile_p
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:46:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zf5qes43.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260202203404.708144-1-guinevere@redhat.com>
Guinevere Larsen <guinevere@redhat.com> writes:
> GDB is incorrectly matching -gfile skip entries. This is a regression
> introduced by the following commit:
>
> commit 02646a4c561ec88491114b87950cbb827c7d614c
> Author: Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org>
> Date: Sun Dec 29 14:57:44 2024 -0800
>
> skip -gfile: call fnmatch without FNM_FILE_NAME
>
> The author made the reasonable, but unfortunately incorrect, assumption
> that glibc's fnmatch, and consequently gdb_filename_fnmatch, will return
> the integer equivalent of a boolean (that is, 0 if the filenames do *not*
> match, non-zero if they match), but that is incorrect. This made it so
> using `skip -gfile` would skip all functions except the ones that are
> meant to be skipped. This commit fixes that inverted logic.
>
> Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33872
>
> ---
> gdb/skip.c | 3 ++-
This needs a test please. The fix itself looks reasonable enough
though.
Once there's a test, this should be merged to gdb-17-branch and master.
Thanks,
Andrew
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/skip.c b/gdb/skip.c
> index 1255c7d2152..ba2f22058ec 100644
> --- a/gdb/skip.c
> +++ b/gdb/skip.c
> @@ -548,7 +548,8 @@ skiplist_entry::do_skip_gfile_p (const symtab_and_line &function_sal) const
> /* Note: symtab_to_fullname caches its result, thus we don't have to. */
> const char *fullname = symtab_to_fullname (function_sal.symtab);
>
> - result = gdb_filename_fnmatch (m_file.c_str (), fullname, FNM_NOESCAPE);
> + result = gdb_filename_fnmatch (m_file.c_str (), fullname, FNM_NOESCAPE)
> + == 0;
> }
>
> if (debug_skip)
>
> base-commit: a6d46a04ea3e165c0ce2f11cd9d68bdcb81f4e4e
> --
> 2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-02 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-02 20:34 Guinevere Larsen
2026-02-02 21:46 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2026-02-03 14:27 ` Tom Tromey
2026-02-03 18:55 ` Guinevere Larsen
2026-02-04 15:26 ` Tom Tromey
2026-02-04 16:13 ` Guinevere Larsen
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