Commit b058809b authored by Du Changbin's avatar Du Changbin Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: 2d061d99 ("scripts/gdb: add version command")
Signed-off-by: default avatarDu Changbin <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJan 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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 63472443
......@@ -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()
......
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