gdb cannot finish from cortex-m exception (interrupt) handler

This needs more information to reproduce this behaviour. Can you please share a small test case and also mention which version of gdb you're using and how the binary image was built?

Hi Tejas,

Sorry to have kept you waiting reply. I cannot talk much about above report because I found the bug on proprietary SoC, but I believe this would happen on any Cortex-M processor. To show that, I want to share a test case I had reproduced onon nucleo-F411RE board (http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF260320) with ther example code.

To build the image, download STM32CubeF4 from http://www.st.com/web/jp/catalog/tools/PF259243 and place attached Makefile on it's top directory, then
$ make

To run image,
$ make run

Regards,
sekiriki

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Reading symbols from out/Projects/STM32F411RE-Nucleo/Examples/HAL/HAL_TimeBase.elf...done.
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EXTI15_10_IRQHandler () at Projects/STM32F411RE-Nucleo/Examples/HAL/HAL_TimeBase/Src/stm32f4xx_it.c:174
174 }
(gdb) load
Loading section .isr_vector, size 0x198 lma 0x8000000
Loading section .text, size 0xc3a8 lma 0x8000198
Loading section .rodata, size 0x20 lma 0x800c540
Loading section .init_array, size 0x8 lma 0x800c560
Loading section .fini_array, size 0x4 lma 0x800c568
Loading section .data, size 0x448 lma 0x800c56c
Start address 0x800c374, load size 51636
Transfer rate: 23 KB/sec, 5737 bytes/write.
(gdb) monitor reset halt
target state: halted
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread
xPSR: 0x01000000 pc: 0x0800c374 msp: 0x20020000
(gdb) b HAL_GPIO_EXTI_IRQHandler
Breakpoint 1 at 0x800810a: file Drivers/STM32F4xx_HAL_Driver/Src/stm32f4xx_hal_gpio.c, line 508.
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Note: automatically using hardware breakpoints for read-only addresses.

Breakpoint 1, HAL_GPIO_EXTI_IRQHandler (GPIO_Pin=8192) at Drivers/STM32F4xx_HAL_Driver/Src/stm32f4xx_hal_gpio.c:508
508 if(__HAL_GPIO_EXTI_GET_IT(GPIO_Pin) != RESET)
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0 HAL_GPIO_EXTI_IRQHandler (GPIO_Pin=8192) at Drivers/STM32F4xx_HAL_Driver/Src/stm32f4xx_hal_gpio.c:508
EXTI15_10_IRQHandler () at Projects/STM32F411RE-Nucleo/Examples/HAL/HAL_TimeBase/Src/stm32f4xx_it.c:174
174 }
(gdb) finish
Run till exit from #0 EXTI15_10_IRQHandler () at Projects/STM32F411RE-Nucleo/Examples/HAL/HAL_TimeBase/Src/stm32f4xx_it.c:174
Warning:
Cannot insert breakpoint 0.
Cannot acc...