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Do not crash when calling GDB with empty executable name.
authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:41:44 +0000 (17:41 +0000)
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:41:44 +0000 (17:41 +0000)
commit17d6efc44b4779a1a8a95645daf293a587ef3da9
treee27dfa9d556359109c17f73855dafb8e6889931c
parent210bbc17ac115d12dbde59b5de97b8547e7465c8
Do not crash when calling GDB with empty executable name.

        % gdb -q ''

... or ...

        % gdb -q
        (gdb) file ''

... both cause GDB to crash with an invalid free. This is because
exec_file_attach is attempting to free a string that has not been
allocated. The string is only allocated if openp is successful.
But in the case of this obviously invalid filename, openp fails,
and leaves scratch_pathname uninitialized, thus causing the xfree
to fail.

The fix is to enable the associated cleanup after we have verified
that openp was successful.

gdb/ChangeLog (By Keith Seitz  <keiths@redhat.com>):

        * exec.c (exec_file_attach): Move cleanup after verifying that
        memory has in fact been allocated.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

        * gdb.base/empty_exe.exp: New testcase.
gdb/ChangeLog
gdb/exec.c
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/empty_exe.exp [new file with mode: 0644]