Merge pull request #9920 from 9999years/forbid-nested-debuggers

Forbid nested debuggers

(cherry picked from commit e164b39ee90fd655dbb7f479fdd4fbe38cc883bd)
Change-Id: Iff62f40fd251116516a63e2d3f9fb5b21480b16d

3 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcmd/repl.cc b/src/libcmd/repl.cc
index ab7d7f18c..45b56d012 100644
--- a/src/libcmd/repl.cc
+++ b/src/libcmd/repl.cc
@@ -233,13 +233,7 @@ ReplExitStatus NixRepl::mainLoop()
               printMsg(lvlError, e.msg());
             }
         } catch (EvalError & e) {
-            // in debugger mode, an EvalError should trigger another repl session.
-            // when that session returns the exception will land here.  No need to show it again;
-            // show the error for this repl session instead.
-            if (state->debugRepl && !state->debugTraces.empty())
-                showDebugTrace(std::cout, state->positions, state->debugTraces.front());
-            else
-                printMsg(lvlError, e.msg());
+            printMsg(lvlError, e.msg());
         } catch (Error & e) {
             printMsg(lvlError, e.msg());
         } catch (Interrupted & e) {
diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.cc b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
index bef0effb6..b24f10c24 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.cc
@@ -778,10 +778,24 @@ std::unique_ptr<ValMap> mapStaticEnvBindings(const SymbolTable & st, const Stati
     return vm;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Sets `inDebugger` to true on construction and false on destruction.
+ */
+class DebuggerGuard {
+    bool & inDebugger;
+public:
+    DebuggerGuard(bool & inDebugger) : inDebugger(inDebugger) {
+        inDebugger = true;
+    }
+    ~DebuggerGuard() {
+        inDebugger = false;
+    }
+};
+
 void EvalState::runDebugRepl(const Error * error, const Env & env, const Expr & expr)
 {
-    // double check we've got the debugRepl function pointer.
-    if (!debugRepl)
+    // Make sure we have a debugger to run and we're not already in a debugger.
+    if (!debugRepl || inDebugger)
         return;
 
     auto dts =
@@ -808,6 +822,7 @@ void EvalState::runDebugRepl(const Error * error, const Env & env, const Expr &
     auto se = getStaticEnv(expr);
     if (se) {
         auto vm = mapStaticEnvBindings(symbols, *se.get(), env);
+        DebuggerGuard _guard(inDebugger);
         auto exitStatus = (debugRepl)(ref<EvalState>(shared_from_this()), *vm);
         switch (exitStatus) {
             case ReplExitStatus::QuitAll:
diff --git a/src/libexpr/eval.hh b/src/libexpr/eval.hh
index d2d8140e9..2291d618c 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/eval.hh
+++ b/src/libexpr/eval.hh
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ struct DebugTrace {
     bool isError;
 };
 
+
 class EvalState : public std::enable_shared_from_this<EvalState>
 {
 public:
@@ -210,6 +211,7 @@ public:
      */
     ReplExitStatus (* debugRepl)(ref<EvalState> es, const ValMap & extraEnv);
     bool debugStop;
+    bool inDebugger = false;
     int trylevel;
     std::list<DebugTrace> debugTraces;
     std::map<const Expr*, const std::shared_ptr<const StaticEnv>> exprEnvs;