Re: [PATCH] gdbstub: Fix client Ctrl-C handling

[Joel Stanley]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 at 02:12, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 9:03 PM AEST, Matheus Tavares Bernardino wrote:
> > > Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > diff --git a/gdbstub/gdbstub.c b/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
> > > index 6911b73c07..ce8b42eb15 100644
> > > --- a/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
> > > +++ b/gdbstub/gdbstub.c
> > > @@ -2051,8 +2051,17 @@ void gdb_read_byte(uint8_t ch)
> > >              return;
> > >      }
> > >      if (runstate_is_running()) {
> > > -        /* when the CPU is running, we cannot do anything except stop
> > > -           it when receiving a char */
> > > +        /*
> > > +         * When the CPU is running, we cannot do anything except stop
> > > +         * it when receiving a char. This is expected on a Ctrl-C in the
> > > +         * gdb client. Because we are in all-stop mode, gdb sends a
> > > +         * 0x03 byte which is not a usual packet, so we handle it 
> > > specially
> > > +         * here, but it does expect a stop reply.
> > > +         */
> > > +        if (ch != 0x03) {
> > > +            warn_report("gdbstub: client sent packet while target 
> > > running\n");
> > > +        }
> > > +        gdbserver_state.allow_stop_reply = true;
> > >          vm_stop(RUN_STATE_PAUSED);
> > >      } else
> > >  #endif
> >
> > Makes sense to me, but shouldn't we send the stop-reply packet only for
> > Ctrl+C/0x03?
>
> Good question.
>
> I think if we get a character here that's not a 3, we're already in
> trouble, and we eat it so even worse. Since we only send a stop packet
> back when the vm stops, then if we don't send one now we might never
> send it. At least if we send one then the client might have some chance
> to get back to a sane state. And this does at least take us back to
> behaviour before the stop filtering patch.
>
> Could go further and only stop the machine if it was a 3, or send a
> stop packet even if we were stopped, etc. but all that get further from
> a minimal fix.

I was taking a look at -rc1 and it looks like this hasn't made it in.
Is it something we want to propose including?

As a user of qemu I'd vote for it to go in.

Cheers,

Joel