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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Reset errno before PTRACE_PEEKUSER for MIPS DSP_CONTROL
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 12:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1409031340130.27075@tp.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409608120-23991-1-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>

On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, James Hogan wrote:

> PTRACE_PEEKUSER can return -1, which is usually used to determine whether
> a system call has reported an error, so errno must be used alone to
> determine whether an error occurred. However errno isn't modified by a
> successful system call so it must be reset to a known value (0) before the
> syscall call.
> 
> Add the missing errno reset when reading the DSP_CONTROL register in the
> native MIPS Linux backend and the MIPS gdbserver backend.
> 
> gdb/:
> 	* mips-linux-nat.c (mips_linux_read_description): Reset errno to 0
> 	prior to reading DSP_CONTROL with PTRACE_PEEKUSER ptrace call.
> 
> gdb/gdbserver/:
> 	* linux-mips-low.c (mips_read_description): Reset errno to 0 prior
> 	to reading DSP_CONTROL with PTRACE_PEEKUSER ptrace call.

 This is fine, go ahead and apply it.  Thanks.

  Maciej


  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 21:48 James Hogan
2014-09-03 12:41 ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2014-09-03 12:51   ` James Hogan
2014-09-03 21:21     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-09-17 16:22       ` Sergio Durigan Junior

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