Re: [RFC PATCH] gdbstub: Re-factor gdb command extensions

[Alex Bennée]

Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi Alex,
>
> On 7/16/24 8:42 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Coverity reported a memory leak (CID 1549757) in this code and its
>> admittedly rather clumsy handling of extending the command table.
>> Instead of handing over a full array of the commands lets use the
>> lighter weight GPtrArray and simply test for the presence of each
>> entry as we go. This avoids complications of transferring ownership of
>> arrays and keeps the final command entries as static entries in the
>> target code.
> How did you run Coverity to find the leak? I'm wondering what's the
> quickest way to check it next time.

Coverity is only run in the cloud on the released build. There is a
container somewhere but I don't know how its used.

I did test on a build with --enable-sanitizers though.

>
>
>> Cc: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@daynix.com>
>> Cc: Gustavo Bueno Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
>> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: Gustavo Romero <gustavo.romero@linaro.org>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Gustavo

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro