2086981 - GMP crashes aren't reported

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android :: Crash Reporting, defect)

Description

[Simon Chopin [:schopin]]

The GMP crashes do result in a minidump (well, until bug 2075782 ran into bug 2084934), but they're never reported up to the application, meaning they fall through the cracks: the OS doesn'nt know about them, the application doesn't know about them.

Interestingly, the user still gets prompted through crash-on-demand for those crashes as that code looks at the filesystem, but that doesn't have any effect since the app doesn't have the crash in its internal DB.

Comment 1

[Simon Chopin [:schopin]]

Attachment: Bug 2086981 - Report GMP process crashes to GeckoView r=#geckoview-reviewers

When a GMP process crashes, we already generate the minidump and its
parent will fire a "gmp-plugin-crash" event, but on Android nothing was
listening for it. ChildCrashHandler now does, and fires the appropriate
intent for a background crash.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/6e72b0c7fca5
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/85e9512ac93f
Report GMP process crashes to GeckoView r=geckoview-reviewers,m_kato

Comment 4

[pstanciu]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/85e9512ac93f