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Commit e84060b4 authored by Andrew Burgess's avatar Andrew Burgess
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gdb: safety checks in skip_prologue_using_sal



While working on the previous patch I reverted this commit:

  commit e86e87f7
  Date:   Tue Nov 28 16:23:32 2006 +0000

          * symtab.c (find_pc_sect_line): Do not return a line before
            the start of a symtab.

When I re-ran the testsuite I saw some GDB crashes in the tests:

  gdb.dwarf2/dw2-line-number-zero.exp
  gdb.dwarf2/dw2-lines.exp
  gdb.dwarf2/dw2-vendor-extended-opcode.exp

GDB was reading beyond the end of an array in the function
skip_prologue_using_sal.

Now, without the above commit reverted I don't believe that this
should ever happen.  Reverting the above commit effectively breaks
GDB's symtab_and_line lookup, we try to find a result for an address,
and return the wrong symtab and line-table.  In
skip_prologue_using_sal we then walk the line table looking for an
appropriate entry, except we never find one, and GDB just keeps going,
wandering off the end of the array.

However, I think adding extra protection to prevent walking off the
end of the array is pretty cheap, and if something does go wrong in
the future then this should prevent a random crash.

Obviously, I have no reproducer for this, as I said, I don't think
this should impact GDB at all, this is just adding a little extra
caution.

Reviewed-By: default avatarTom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
parent ef56b006
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