diff --git a/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBProcesses_7_1.java b/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBProcesses_7_1.java
index fae1cc3f2c2..01c7c99e70a 100644
--- a/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBProcesses_7_1.java
+++ b/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/dsf/gdb/service/GDBProcesses_7_1.java
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
  *     Ericsson - initial API and implementation
  *     Andy Jin (QNX) - Not output thread osId as a string when it is null (Bug 397039)
  *     Alvaro Sanchez-Leon - Bug 451396 - Improve extensibility to process MI "-thread-info" results
+ *     Simon Marchi (Ericsson) - Bug 378154 - Pass thread name from MIThread to the data model
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.service;
 
@@ -200,6 +201,7 @@ public class GDBProcesses_7_1 extends GDBProcesses_7_0 {
 	 */
 	protected IGdbThreadDMData createThreadDMData(MIThread thread) {
 		String id = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
 		if (thread.getOsId() != null) {
 			id = thread.getOsId();
 		}
@@ -212,10 +214,10 @@ public class GDBProcesses_7_1 extends GDBProcesses_7_0 {
 		}
 		// We must indicate and empty id by using null
 		if (id.isEmpty()) id = null;
-		
+
+		String name = thread.getName();
 		String core = thread.getCore();
-		return new MIThreadDMData_7_1("", id, //$NON-NLS-1$
-				                            core == null ? null : new String[] { core });
+		return new MIThreadDMData_7_1(name == null ? "" : name, id, core == null ? null : new String[] { core });
 	}
 	
 	@DsfServiceEventHandler
diff --git a/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.tests.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/tests/dsf/gdb/tests/GDBProcessesTest.java b/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.tests.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/tests/dsf/gdb/tests/GDBProcessesTest.java
index 773c08aa3b5..58772e108fe 100644
--- a/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.tests.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/tests/dsf/gdb/tests/GDBProcessesTest.java
+++ b/dsf-gdb/org.eclipse.cdt.tests.dsf.gdb/src/org/eclipse/cdt/tests/dsf/gdb/tests/GDBProcessesTest.java
@@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ public class GDBProcessesTest extends BaseTestCase {
     	Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\d*",  Pattern.MULTILINE); //$NON-NLS-1$
 		Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(threadData.getId());
 		assertTrue("Thread ID is a series of number", matcher.find());
-    	// Name is blank in case of GDB back end
-    	assertEquals("Thread name is should have been blank for GDB Back end", "", threadData.getName());
+		// Check thread name
+		assertEquals("main thread's name is the name of the executable", EXEC_NAME, threadData.getName());
     	
     	fWait.waitReset(); 
 	}