Re: [Qemu-devel] Crash due to invalid env->current_tb

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 20:09:00 +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 4/29/08, Adam Lackorzynski <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >  I've been experiencing crashes of latest svn Qemu, host ia32 and target
> >  arm, host gcc is 'gcc version 3.4.6 (Debian 3.4.6-7)'.
> >  The segfault happens because of an invalid env->current_tb which seems
> >  to be caused by generated code. The following code in cpu_exec
> >
> >    tc_ptr = tb->tc_ptr;
> >    env->current_tb = tb;
> >    gen_func = (void *)tc_ptr;
> >    T0 = gen_func();
> >    env->current_tb = NULL;
> >
> >  is being compiled to the following
> >
> >    mov    0x14(%ecx),%eax
> >    mov    %ecx,0x56c(%ebp)
> >    xor    %edi,%edi
> >    call   *%eax
> >    mov    %edi,0x56c(%ebp)
> >
> >  After the call edi isn't 0 anymore and gets the bogus value. As edi is
> >  callee saved the code itself seems ok.
> >  When I add a barrier before "env->current_tb = NULL" the xor is placed
> >  after the call and everything works fine. So might the problem be that
> >  generated code isn't preserving edi/registers?
> 
> Right. How did you make the barrier? My version (attached) just
> crashes, I'm not fluent on i386 assembly. Maybe your version could
> serve as a temporary fix.

I just added an 'asm volatile("")' to stop reordering of instructions
which of course isn't enough. The following works for me:

===================================================================
--- cpu-exec.c  (revision 4276)
+++ cpu-exec.c  (working copy)
@@ -690,6 +691,11 @@
                fp.ip = tc_ptr;
                fp.gp = code_gen_buffer + 2 * (1 << 20);
                (*(void (*)(void)) &fp)();
+#elif defined(__i386)
+               asm volatile ("call *%1\n"
+                             : "=a" (T0)
+                             : "r" (gen_func)
+                             : "esi", "edi");
 #else
                 T0 = gen_func();
 #endif



Adam
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