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Commit f33da99a authored by Sergio Durigan Junior's avatar Sergio Durigan Junior
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Fix PR breakpoints/16889: gdb segfaults when printing ASM SDT arguments

This commit fixes PR breakpoints/16889, which is about a bug that
triggers when GDB tries to parse probes whose arguments do not contain
the initial (and optional) "N@" part.  For reference sake, the de
facto format is described here:

  <https://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/UserSpaceProbeImplementation>

Anyway, this PR actually uncovered two bugs (related) that were
happening while parsing the arguments.  The first one was that the
parser *was* catching *some* arguments that were missing the "N@"
part, but it wasn't correctly setting the argument's type.  This was
causing a NULL pointer being dereferenced, ouch...

The second bug uncovered was that the parser was not catching all of
the cases for a probe which did not provide the "N@" part.  The fix
for that was to simplify the check that the code was making to
identify non-prefixed probes.  The code is simpler and easier to read
now.

I am also providing a testcase for this bug, only for x86_64
architectures.

gdb/
2014-05-02  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>

	PR breakpoints/16889
	* stap-probe.c (stap_parse_probe_arguments): Simplify
	check for non-prefixed probes (i.e., probes whose
	arguments do not start with "N@").  Always set the
	argument type to a sane value.

gdb/testsuite/
2014-05-02  Sergio Durigan Junior  <sergiodj@redhat.com>

	PR breakpoints/16889
	* gdb.arch/amd64-stap-optional-prefix.S: New file.
	* gdb.arch/amd64-stap-optional-prefix.exp: Likewise.
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