Re: [PATCH v1 07/10] gdb/linux-tdep: migrate linux_find_memory_regions_full to file_reader_t

Matthieu Longo <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:14:24 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21/07/2026 22:47, Luis wrote:
> 
> On 07/07/2026 16:48, Matthieu Longo wrote:
>> The previous implementation of linux_find_memory_regions_full could
>> still return success even when none of the /proc/PID/[s]maps files
>> existed, or all reads returned 0 bytes (this last case can happen on
>> Linux when the thread-group leader has exited).
>> As a result, the function could incorrectly succeed, allowing core
>> dump generation via the gcore command.
>> This logical defect was allowing, by chance, the function to return
>> success and hence, allowing fortuitously the codedump generation via
> 
> Typo: codedump -> coredump
> 

Fixed.

Matthieu