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Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix for PR 17808 and some related changes
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>, Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 12:55:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix for PR 17808 and some related changes
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On 01/15/2015 03:21 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> As seen in PR 17808, a test case with a forged (invalid) core file can
> crash GDB with an assertion failure when a register section has the
> wrong size. This patch series is about improving GDB's behavior in
> such cases: Patch 1 fixes the reported problem for i386 as well as for
> other targets; patch 2 avoids out-of-bounds accesses when an x86
> ".reg-xstate" section is too short, and patch 3 adds a warning when a
> core file register section is larger than expected.
>
> This is based on the "lazy approach" suggested here:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-01/msg00229.html
>
> OK to apply?
This looks good to me. Mark, any comments?
Thanks,
Pedro Alves