Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > "liujunjie (A)" <liujunji...@huawei.com> writes: > >> The stack backtrace is as follows: >> (gdb) bt >> #0 0x00007f1dc3c7b091 in _g_log_abort () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 >> #1 0x00007f1dc3c7c0bd in g_log_default_handler () from >> /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 >> #2 0x00007f1dc3c7c341 in g_logv () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 >> #3 0x00007f1dc3c7c5cf in g_log () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 >> #4 0x00007f1dc3c7ac4c in g_malloc () from /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 >> #5 0x00000000008300b7 in qstring_from_substr ( >> str=0x7f13a2e67010 "00000000777b8000: 0000000003083000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777b9000: 0000000005984000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777ba000: 0000000005985000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777bb000: 0000000003086000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777bc000"..., start=start@entry=0, end=<optimized out>) >> at qobject/qstring.c:51 >> #6 0x0000000000830113 in qstring_from_str (str=<optimized out>) at >> qobject/qstring.c:66 >> #7 0x000000000082be98 in qobject_output_type_str (v=<optimized out>, >> name=0x89703b "unused", obj=0x7ffff0135f98, errp=<optimized out>) >> at qapi/qobject_output_visitor.c:172 >> #8 0x0000000000829d2c in visit_type_str (v=v@entry=0x4d9d940, >> name=name@entry=0x89703b "unused", obj=obj@entry=0x7ffff0135f98, >> errp=errp@entry=0x7ffff0135fa8) >> at qapi/qapi_visit_core.c:291 >> #9 0x0000000000576135 in qmp_marshal_output_str ( >> ret_in=0x7f13a2e67010 "00000000777b8000: 0000000003083000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777b9000: 0000000005984000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777ba000: 0000000005985000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777bb000: 0000000003086000 >> ----A--U-\r\n00000000777bc000"..., ret_out=ret_out@entry=0x7ffff0136068, >> errp=errp@entry=0x7ffff0135fe8) at qmp-marshal.c:2022 >> #10 0x00000000005762cb in qmp_marshal_human_monitor_command (args=<optimized >> out>, ret=0x7ffff0136068, errp=0x7ffff0136060) at qmp-marshal.c:2059 >> #11 0x000000000082c897 in do_qmp_dispatch (request=request@entry=0x1fcda50, >> errp=errp@entry=0x7ffff01360b8) at qapi/qmp_dispatch.c:114 >> #12 0x000000000082caeb in qmp_dispatch (request=request@entry=0x1fcda50) at >> qapi/qmp_dispatch.c:141 >> #13 0x000000000045e0d2 in handle_qmp_command (parser=<optimized out>, >> tokens=<optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-2.8.1/monitor.c:3907 > [...] > > The code is trying to marshall the return value of > qmp_human_monitor_command(). It's @ret_in in qmp_marshal_output_str() > (frame#9, abbreviated by GDB), and @str in qstring_from_substr() > (frame#5). Also @str in qstring_from_str() (frame#6), but GDB can't see > it there. Sadly, GDB can't see shows qstring_from_substr()'s @end, > either. However, you previously examined qstring->length there: > >>> > (gdb) p/x qstring->length >>> > $7 = 0xffffffffb0fd64bc >>> > (gdb) p end >>> > $8 = <optimized out> > > We know > > qstring->length = end - start + 1; > > If GDB shows the true value (always in doubt for optimized code), then > @end must be qstring->length - 1, because @start is zero. But that's > not plausible at all! It's almost 16 exabyte. > > I suspect GDB is lying to you. Please show us the complete string, like > this: > > (gdb) set print elements unlimited > (gdb) print str
Actually, I'm interested only in the true length of @str, and the print is just a simple way to find it. No need to post the output of print if it's inconveniently long.