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Pedro Alves 980548fd88 Fix GDB crash after Quit thrown from unwinder sniffer
I ran into a GDB crash in gdb.base/bp-cmds-continue-ctrl-c.exp in my
multi-target branch, which turns out exposed a bug that exists in
master too.

That testcase has a breakpoint with a "continue" command associated.
Then the breakpoint is constantly being hit.  At the same time, the
testcase is continualy interrupting the program with Ctrl-C, and
re-resuming it, in a loop.

Running that testcase manually under Valgrind, after a few sequences
of 'Ctrl-C' + 'continue', I got:

 Breakpoint 1, Quit
 (gdb) ==21270== Invalid read of size 8
 ==21270==    at 0x4D8185: pyuw_this_id(frame_info*, void**, frame_id*) (py-unwind.c:461)
 ==21270==    by 0x6D426A: compute_frame_id(frame_info*) (frame.c:505)
 ==21270==    by 0x6D43B7: get_frame_id(frame_info*) (frame.c:537)
 ==21270==    by 0x84F3B8: scoped_restore_current_thread::scoped_restore_current_thread() (thread.c:1678)
 ==21270==    by 0x718E3D: fetch_inferior_event(void*) (infrun.c:4076)
 ==21270==    by 0x7067C9: inferior_event_handler(inferior_event_type, void*) (inf-loop.c:43)
 ==21270==    by 0x45BEF9: handle_target_event(int, void*) (linux-nat.c:4419)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C4255: handle_file_event(file_handler*, int) (event-loop.c:733)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C47F8: gdb_wait_for_event(int) (event-loop.c:859)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C3666: gdb_do_one_event() (event-loop.c:322)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C3712: start_event_loop() (event-loop.c:371)
 ==21270==    by 0x746801: captured_command_loop() (main.c:329)
 ==21270==  Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
 ==21270==
 ==21270==
 ==21270== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core
 ==21270==  Access not within mapped region at address 0x0
 ==21270==    at 0x4D8185: pyuw_this_id(frame_info*, void**, frame_id*) (py-unwind.c:461)
 ==21270==    by 0x6D426A: compute_frame_id(frame_info*) (frame.c:505)
 ==21270==    by 0x6D43B7: get_frame_id(frame_info*) (frame.c:537)
 ==21270==    by 0x84F3B8: scoped_restore_current_thread::scoped_restore_current_thread() (thread.c:1678)
 ==21270==    by 0x718E3D: fetch_inferior_event(void*) (infrun.c:4076)
 ==21270==    by 0x7067C9: inferior_event_handler(inferior_event_type, void*) (inf-loop.c:43)
 ==21270==    by 0x45BEF9: handle_target_event(int, void*) (linux-nat.c:4419)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C4255: handle_file_event(file_handler*, int) (event-loop.c:733)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C47F8: gdb_wait_for_event(int) (event-loop.c:859)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C3666: gdb_do_one_event() (event-loop.c:322)
 ==21270==    by 0x6C3712: start_event_loop() (event-loop.c:371)
 ==21270==    by 0x746801: captured_command_loop() (main.c:329)
 ==21270==  If you believe this happened as a result of a stack
 ==21270==  overflow in your program's main thread (unlikely but
 ==21270==  possible), you can try to increase the size of the
 ==21270==  main thread stack using the --main-stacksize= flag.
 ==21270==  The main thread stack size used in this run was 8388608.
 ==21270==

Above, when we get to compute_frame_id, fi->unwind is non-NULL,
meaning, we found an unwinder, in this case the Python unwinder, but
somehow, fi->prologue_cache is left NULL.  pyuw_this_id then crashes
because it assumes fi->prologue_cache is non-NULL:

  static void
  pyuw_this_id (struct frame_info *this_frame, void **cache_ptr,
		struct frame_id *this_id)
  {
    *this_id = ((cached_frame_info *) *cache_ptr)->frame_id;
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^

'*cache_ptr' here is 'fi->prologue_cache'.

There's a quit() call in pyuw_sniffer that I believe is the one that
sometimes triggers the crash above.  The crash can be reproduced
easily with this hack to force a quit out of the python unwinder:

 --- a/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
 +++ b/gdb/python/py-unwind.c
 @@ -497,6 +497,8 @@ pyuw_sniffer (const struct frame_unwind *self, struct frame_info *this_frame,
    struct gdbarch *gdbarch = (struct gdbarch *) (self->unwind_data);
    cached_frame_info *cached_frame;

 +  quit ();
 +
    gdbpy_enter enter_py (gdbarch, current_language);

    TRACE_PY_UNWIND (3, "%s (SP=%s, PC=%s)\n", __FUNCTION__,

After that quit is thrown, any subsequent operation that involves
unwinding results in GDB crashing with SIGSEGV like above.

The problem is that this commit:

  commit 30a9c02fef
  CommitDate: Sun Oct 8 23:16:42 2017 -0600
  Subject: Remove cleanup from frame_prepare_for_sniffer

missed that we need to call frame_cleanup_after_sniffer before
rethrowing the exception too.

Without the fix, the "bt" added to
gdb.base/bp-cmds-continue-ctrl-c.exp in this commit makes GDB crash:

  Running src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bp-cmds-continue-ctrl-c.exp ...
  ERROR: Process no longer exists

gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-02-14  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* frame-unwind.c (frame_unwind_try_unwinder): Always call
	frame_cleanup_after_sniffer on exception.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:
2018-02-14  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* gdb.base/bp-cmds-continue-ctrl-c.exp (do_test): Test "bt" after
	getting a "Quit".
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