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| author | Du Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com> | 2019-01-03 15:28:27 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -0800 |
| commit | b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059 (patch) | |
| tree | 180721784a0193377d957f58058fd1b27138ae6b /scripts/gdb/linux | |
| parent | 634724431607f6f46c495dfef801a1c8b44a96d9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059.tar.gz lwn-b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059.zip | |
scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
A bug is present in GDB which causes early string termination when
parsing variables. This has been reported [0], but we should ensure
that we can support at least basic printing of the core kernel strings.
For current gdb version (has been tested with 7.3 and 8.1), 'lx-version'
only prints one character.
(gdb) lx-version
L(gdb)
This can be fixed by casting 'linux_banner' as (char *).
(gdb) lx-version
Linux version 4.19.0-rc1+ (changbin@acer) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #21 SMP Sat Sep 1 21:43:30 CST 2018
[0] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20077
[kbingham@kernel.org: add detail to commit message]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181111162035.8356-1-kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Fixes: 2d061d999424 ("scripts/gdb: add version command")
Signed-off-by: Du Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/gdb/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py index 086d27223c0c..0aebd7565b03 100644 --- a/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py +++ b/scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class LxVersion(gdb.Command): def invoke(self, arg, from_tty): # linux_banner should contain a newline - gdb.write(gdb.parse_and_eval("linux_banner").string()) + gdb.write(gdb.parse_and_eval("(char *)linux_banner").string()) LxVersion() |