From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:19:00 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [gdb/symtab] Fix data race in ~charset_vector
X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4f92e10cda142fd1f213e01a53ca687e38cddf22;p=binutils-gdb.git

[gdb/symtab] Fix data race in ~charset_vector

When doing:
...
$ gdb ./outputs/gdb.ada/char_enum_unicode/foo -batch -ex "break foo.adb:26"
...
with a gdb build with -fsanitize=thread I run into a data race:
...
WARNING: ThreadSanitizer: data race (pid=30917)
  Write of size 8 at 0x7b0400004070 by main thread:
    #0 free <null> (libtsan.so.2+0x4c5e2)
    #1 xfree<char> gdbsupport/gdb-xfree.h:37 (gdb+0x650f17)
    #2 charset_vector::clear() gdb/charset.c:703 (gdb+0x651354)
    #3 charset_vector::~charset_vector() gdb/charset.c:697 (gdb+0x6512d3)
    #4 <null> <null> (libtsan.so.2+0x32643)
    #5 captured_main_1 gdb/main.c:1310 (gdb+0xa3975a)
...

The problem is that we're freeing the charset_vector elements in the destructor,
which may still be used by a worker thread.

Fix this by not freeing the charset_vector elements in the destructor.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29311
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diff --git a/gdb/charset.c b/gdb/charset.c
index 74f742e0aa7..a6261fc505c 100644
--- a/gdb/charset.c
+++ b/gdb/charset.c
@@ -694,7 +694,13 @@ struct charset_vector
 {
   ~charset_vector ()
   {
-    clear ();
+    /* Note that we do not call charset_vector::clear, which would also xfree
+       the elements.  This destructor is only called after exit, at which point
+       those will be freed anyway on process exit, so not freeing them now is
+       not classified as a memory leak.  OTOH, freeing them now might be
+       classified as a data race, because some worker thread might still be
+       accessing them.  */
+    charsets.clear ();
   }
 
   void clear ()