Fix a couple vStopped pending ack bugs

A following patch will add a testcase that has two processes with
threads stepping over a breakpoint continuously, and then detaches
from one of the processes while threads are running.  The other
process continues stepping over its breakpoint.  And then the testcase
sends a SIGUSR1, expecting that GDB reports it.  That would sometimes
hang against gdbserver, due to the bugs fixed here.  Both bugs are
related, in that they're about remote protocol asynchronous Stop
notifications.  There's a bug in GDB, and another in GDBserver.

The GDB bug:

- when we detach from a process, the remote target discards any
  pending RSP notification related to that process, including the
  in-flight, yet-unacked notification.  Discarding the in-flight
  notification is the problem.  Until the in-flight notification is
  acked with a vStopped packet, the server won't send another %Stop
  notification.  As a result, the debug session gets messed up.  In
  the new testcase's case, GDB would hang inside stop_all_threads,
  waiting for a stop for one of the process'es threads, which never
  arrived -- its stop reply was permanently stuck in the stop reply
  queue, waiting for a vStopped packet that never arrived.

  In summary:

   1. GDBserver sends stop notification about thread X, the remote
      target receives it and stores it
   2. At the same time, GDB detaches thread X's inferior
   3. The remote target discards the received stop notification
   4. GDBserver waits forever for the ack

The GDBserver bug:

  GDBserver has the opposite bug.  It also discards notifications for
  the process being detached.  If that discards the head of the
  notification queue, when gdb sends an ack, it ends up acking the
  _next_ notification.  Meaning, gdb loses one notification.  In the
  testcase, this results in a similar hang in stop_all_threads.

So we have two very similar bugs in GDB and GDBserver, both resulting
in a similar symptom.  That's why I'm fixing them both at the same
time.

gdb/ChangeLog:

	* remote.c (remote_notif_stop_ack): Don't error out on
	TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE; instead, just ignore the notification.
	(remote_target::discard_pending_stop_replies): Don't delete
	in-flight notification; instead, clear its contents.

gdbserver/ChangeLog:

	* server.cc (discard_queued_stop_replies): Don't ever discard the
	notification at the head of the list.
This commit is contained in:
Pedro Alves 2021-01-06 02:19:38 +00:00
parent 92234eb192
commit b0083dd72f
4 changed files with 34 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
2021-02-03 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* remote.c (remote_notif_stop_ack): Don't error out on
TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE; instead, just ignore the notification.
(remote_target::discard_pending_stop_replies): Don't delete
in-flight notification; instead, clear its contents.
2021-02-03 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* remote.c (extended_remote_target::attach): Set target async in

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@ -7006,13 +7006,11 @@ remote_notif_stop_ack (remote_target *remote,
/* acknowledge */
putpkt (remote, self->ack_command);
if (stop_reply->ws.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
{
/* We got an unknown stop reply. */
error (_("Unknown stop reply"));
}
remote->push_stop_reply (stop_reply);
/* Kind can be TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE if we have meanwhile discarded
the notification. It was left in the queue because we need to
acknowledge it and pull the rest of the notifications out. */
if (stop_reply->ws.kind != TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE)
remote->push_stop_reply (stop_reply);
}
static int
@ -7181,8 +7179,14 @@ remote_target::discard_pending_stop_replies (struct inferior *inf)
/* Discard the in-flight notification. */
if (reply != NULL && reply->ptid.pid () == inf->pid)
{
delete reply;
rns->pending_event[notif_client_stop.id] = NULL;
/* Leave the notification pending, since the server expects that
we acknowledge it with vStopped. But clear its contents, so
that later on when we acknowledge it, we also discard it. */
reply->ws.kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_IGNORE;
if (remote_debug)
fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog,
"discarded in-flight notification\n");
}
/* Discard the stop replies we have already pulled with

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@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
2021-02-03 Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>
* server.cc (discard_queued_stop_replies): Don't ever discard the
notification at the head of the list.
2021-01-20 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
* ax.cc (bytecode_address_table): Make static.

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@ -203,6 +203,15 @@ discard_queued_stop_replies (ptid_t ptid)
next = iter;
++next;
if (iter == notif_stop.queue.begin ())
{
/* The head of the list contains the notification that was
already sent to GDB. So we can't remove it, otherwise
when GDB sends the vStopped, it would ack the _next_
notification, which hadn't been sent yet! */
continue;
}
if (remove_all_on_match_ptid (*iter, ptid))
{
delete *iter;