From 98b0ebab0a1eb0c1f179ebe633250e7201d35bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Waroquiers Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 17:25:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Avoid expect's buffer overflow in info-var.exp test. Once the executable is started, info variables can show thousands of variables belonging to glibc (see below). This long list of variables then causes the test to fail, due to expect's buffer overflow: Running /bd/home/philippe/gdb/git/build_binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp ... ERROR: internal buffer is full. ERROR: internal buffer is full. ERROR: internal buffer is full. Fix this by testing 'info variables' without running the executable. gdb ./info-var ... Reading symbols from ./info-var... (gdb) |info variables|wc 27 54 971 (gdb) start Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x1129: file /bd/home/philippe/gdb/git/build_binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var-f1.c, line 23. Starting program: /bd/home/philippe/gdb/git/build_binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/info-var/info-var Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at /bd/home/philippe/gdb/git/build_binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/../../../binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var-f1.c:23 23 return global_var + get_offset() + f1_var; (gdb) |info variables|wc 4334 14581 130738 (gdb) gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog 2019-09-04 Philippe Waroquiers * gdb.base/info-var.exp: Test info variables without running to main, to avoid expect's buffer overflow. --- gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp | 7 +++---- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog index d2dc356148f..46c7b5f9276 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2019-09-04 Philippe Waroquiers + + * gdb.base/info-var.exp: Test info variables without running + to main, to avoid expect's buffer overflow. + 2019-09-03 Tom Tromey * gdb.ada/bias.exp: New file. diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp index 6dd896d8aa7..c9b7485ffb6 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-var.exp @@ -22,10 +22,9 @@ if {[prepare_for_testing "failed to prepare" \ return -1 } -if ![runto_main] then { - fail "can't run to main" - return 0 -} +# Note: we do not run to main, as otherwise, the output of info variables +# can be very long, showing thousands of glibc variables. +# This long output then causes expect's buffer to overflow. gdb_test "info variables" \ [multi_line \ -- 2.39.2