Merge from 3.2 (Issue #15043: skip test_gdb if the custom hooks can't be loaded)

Lib/test/test_gdb.py

@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ gdbpy_version, _ = p.communicate()
 if gdbpy_version == b'':
     raise unittest.SkipTest("gdb not built with embedded python support")
 
+# Verify that "gdb" can load our custom hooks
+p = subprocess.Popen(["gdb", "--batch", cmd,
+                      "--args", sys.executable],
+                     stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+__, gdbpy_errors = p.communicate()
+if b"auto-loading has been declined" in gdbpy_errors:
+    msg = "gdb security settings prevent use of custom hooks: %s"
+    raise unittest.SkipTest(msg % gdbpy_errors)
+
 def gdb_has_frame_select():
     # Does this build of gdb have gdb.Frame.select ?
     cmd = "--eval-command=python print(dir(gdb.Frame))"

Misc/NEWS

@@ -134,7 +134,10 @@ Documentation
 Tests
 -----
 
-- Issue #14963 (partial): Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
+- Issue #15043: test_gdb is now skipped entirely if gdb security settings
+  block loading of the gdb hooks
+
+- Issue #14963: Add test cases for exception handling behaviour
   in contextlib.ExitStack (Initial patch by Alon Horev)