Pylint is only enabled for "grpcio/grpc" package,
and various specific checks that currently fail are disabled,
each with a respective TODO item in the .pylintrc file.
This commit fixes an issue in which the following sequence of operations
leads to use of uninitialized memory:
1. Caller invokes GrpcBufferWriter::Next(), and then makes use of 8191
bytes in the returned buffer (which is 8192 bytes in size).
2. Caller then returns the unused single byte via
GrpcBufferWriter::BackUp(). This method invokes
g_core_codegen_interface->grpc_slice_split_tail(), which causes
backup_slice_ to be a grpc_slice with one byte.
3. At the next invocation of GrpcBufferWriter::Next(), a reference to
the single byte grpc_slice is returned to the caller.
The problem here is that the returned reference is to the inlined buffer
in the grpc_slice, which is resident in slice_, not the location of the
buffer inside slice_buffer_ after
g_core_codegen_interface->grpc_slice_buffer_add() in
GrpcBufferWriter::Next(). As a result, any data the caller writes to the
returned void* data is lost.
The solution is to avoid inlined backup slices.
This PR adds a set of debug helpers that are intended for calling only from gdb. They cross abstraction boundaries and allow quickly accessing one thing from another thing.
I expect to grow this library significantly over time to aid debugging tricky problems.