File I/O file handles after target closes
A future patch will propose making the remote target's target_ops be
heap-allocated (to make it possible to have multiple instances of
remote targets, for multiple simultaneous connections), and will
delete/destroy the remote target at target_close time.
That change trips on a latent problem, though. File I/O handles
remain open even after the target is gone, with a dangling pointer to
a target that no longer exists. This results in GDB crashing when it
calls the target_ops backend associated with the file handle:
(gdb) Disconnect
Ending remote debugging.
* GDB crashes deferencing a dangling pointer
Backtrace:
#0 0x00007f79338570a0 in main_arena () at /lib64/libc.so.6
#1 0x0000000000858bfe in target_fileio_close(int, int*) (fd=1, target_errno=0x7ffe0499a4c8)
at src/gdb/target.c:2980
#2 0x00000000007088bd in gdb_bfd_iovec_fileio_close(bfd*, void*) (abfd=0x1a631b0, stream=0x223c9d0)
at src/gdb/gdb_bfd.c:353
#3 0x0000000000930906 in opncls_bclose (abfd=0x1a631b0) at src/bfd/opncls.c:528
#4 0x0000000000930cf9 in bfd_close_all_done (abfd=0x1a631b0) at src/bfd/opncls.c:768
#5 0x0000000000930cb3 in bfd_close (abfd=0x1a631b0) at src/bfd/opncls.c:735
#6 0x0000000000708dc5 in gdb_bfd_close_or_warn(bfd*) (abfd=0x1a631b0) at src/gdb/gdb_bfd.c:511
#7 0x00000000007091a2 in gdb_bfd_unref(bfd*) (abfd=0x1a631b0) at src/gdb/gdb_bfd.c:615
#8 0x000000000079ed8e in objfile::~objfile() (this=0x2154730, __in_chrg=<optimized out>)
at src/gdb/objfiles.c:682
#9 0x000000000079fd1a in objfile_purge_solibs() () at src/gdb/objfiles.c:1065
#10 0x00000000008162ca in no_shared_libraries(char const*, int) (ignored=0x0, from_tty=1)
at src/gdb/solib.c:1251
#11 0x000000000073b89b in disconnect_command(char const*, int) (args=0x0, from_tty=1)
at src/gdb/infcmd.c:3035
This goes unnoticed in current master, because the current remote
target's target_ops is never destroyed nowadays, so we end up calling:
remote_hostio_close -> remote_hostio_send_command
which gracefully fails with FILEIO_ENOSYS if remote_desc is NULL
(because the target is closed).
Fix this by invalidating a target's file I/O handles when the target
is closed.
With this change, remote_hostio_send_command no longer needs to handle the
case of being called with a closed remote target, originally added here:
<https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-08/msg00359.html>.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2018-04-11 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* target.c (fileio_fh_t::t): Add comment.
(target_fileio_pwrite, target_fileio_pread, target_fileio_fstat)
(target_fileio_close): Handle a NULL target.
(invalidate_fileio_fh): New.
(target_close): Call it.
* remote.c (remote_hostio_send_command): No longer check whether
remote_desc is open.