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1 /* Temporarily install an alternate signal stack
2 
3    Copyright (C) 2019-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 
5    This file is part of GDB.
6 
7    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10    (at your option) any later version.
11 
12    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15    GNU General Public License for more details.
16 
17    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
19 
20 #ifndef GDBSUPPORT_ALT_STACK_H
21 #define GDBSUPPORT_ALT_STACK_H
22 
23 #include <signal.h>
24 
25 namespace gdb
26 {
27 
28 /* Try to set up an alternate signal stack for SIGSEGV handlers.
29    This allows us to handle SIGSEGV signals generated when the
30    normal process stack is exhausted.  If this stack is not set
31    up (sigaltstack is unavailable or fails) and a SIGSEGV is
32    generated when the normal stack is exhausted then the program
33    will behave as though no SIGSEGV handler was installed.  */
34 class alternate_signal_stack
35 {
36 public:
37   alternate_signal_stack ()
38   {
39 #ifdef HAVE_SIGALTSTACK
40     m_stack.reset ((char *) xmalloc (SIGSTKSZ));
41 
42     stack_t stack;
43     stack.ss_sp = m_stack.get ();
44     stack.ss_size = SIGSTKSZ;
45     stack.ss_flags = 0;
46 
47     sigaltstack (&stack, &m_old_stack);
48 #endif
49   }
50 
51   ~alternate_signal_stack ()
52   {
53 #ifdef HAVE_SIGALTSTACK
54     sigaltstack (&m_old_stack, nullptr);
55 #endif
56   }
57 
58   DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN (alternate_signal_stack);
59 
60 private:
61 
62 #ifdef HAVE_SIGALTSTACK
63   gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> m_stack;
64   stack_t m_old_stack;
65 #endif
66 };
67 
68 }
69 
70 #endif /* GDBSUPPORT_ALT_STACK_H */
71