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Fix use after free in cgen instruction lookup


On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 06:54:13AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> The buf variable is used after it is free'd.  This causes the lookups to
> fail and also causes memory corruption.
> 
> Re-arrange the code a bit to make sure we always free memory before
> returning. This was caught in openrisc testing, one of the only user of
> this method.
> 
> opcodes/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2017-02-09  Stafford Horne  <shorne@gmail.com>
> 
> 	* cgen-opc.c (cgen_lookup_insn): Fix memory corruption issue.

Thanks for fixing this.  I'm going to apply a slightly different
patch to remove the unnecessary temporaries as well.

diff --git a/opcodes/ChangeLog b/opcodes/ChangeLog
index 8366d1b..fc6637b 100644
--- a/opcodes/ChangeLog
+++ b/opcodes/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2017-02-11  Stafford Horne  <shorne@gmail.com>
+	    Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
+
+	* cgen-opc.c (cgen_lookup_insn): Delete buf and base_insn temps.
+	Use insn_bytes_value and insn_int_value directly instead.  Don't
+	free allocated memory until function exit.
+
 2017-02-10  Nicholas Piggin  <npiggin@gmail.com>
 
 	* ppc-opc.c (powerpc_opcodes) <scv, rfscv>: New mnemonics.
diff --git a/opcodes/cgen-opc.c b/opcodes/cgen-opc.c
index 72b4f05..4299db3 100644
--- a/opcodes/cgen-opc.c
+++ b/opcodes/cgen-opc.c
@@ -452,18 +452,14 @@ cgen_lookup_insn (CGEN_CPU_DESC cd,
 		  CGEN_FIELDS *fields,
 		  int alias_p)
 {
-  unsigned char *buf;
-  CGEN_INSN_INT base_insn;
   CGEN_EXTRACT_INFO ex_info;
   CGEN_EXTRACT_INFO *info;
 
   if (cd->int_insn_p)
     {
       info = NULL;
-      buf = (unsigned char *) xmalloc (cd->max_insn_bitsize / 8);
-      cgen_put_insn_value (cd, buf, length, insn_int_value);
-      base_insn = insn_int_value;
-      free (buf);
+      insn_bytes_value = (unsigned char *) xmalloc (cd->max_insn_bitsize / 8);
+      cgen_put_insn_value (cd, insn_bytes_value, length, insn_int_value);
     }
   else
     {
@@ -471,8 +467,7 @@ cgen_lookup_insn (CGEN_CPU_DESC cd,
       ex_info.dis_info = NULL;
       ex_info.insn_bytes = insn_bytes_value;
       ex_info.valid = -1;
-      buf = insn_bytes_value;
-      base_insn = cgen_get_insn_value (cd, buf, length);
+      insn_int_value = cgen_get_insn_value (cd, insn_bytes_value, length);
     }
 
   if (!insn)
@@ -482,7 +477,8 @@ cgen_lookup_insn (CGEN_CPU_DESC cd,
       /* The instructions are stored in hash lists.
 	 Pick the first one and keep trying until we find the right one.  */
 
-      insn_list = cgen_dis_lookup_insn (cd, (char *) buf, base_insn);
+      insn_list = cgen_dis_lookup_insn (cd, (char *) insn_bytes_value,
+					insn_int_value);
       while (insn_list != NULL)
 	{
 	  insn = insn_list->insn;
@@ -494,18 +490,18 @@ cgen_lookup_insn (CGEN_CPU_DESC cd,
 	      /* Basic bit mask must be correct.  */
 	      /* ??? May wish to allow target to defer this check until the
 		 extract handler.  */
-	      if ((base_insn & CGEN_INSN_BASE_MASK (insn))
+	      if ((insn_int_value & CGEN_INSN_BASE_MASK (insn))
 		  == CGEN_INSN_BASE_VALUE (insn))
 		{
 		  /* ??? 0 is passed for `pc' */
 		  int elength = CGEN_EXTRACT_FN (cd, insn)
-		    (cd, insn, info, base_insn, fields, (bfd_vma) 0);
+		    (cd, insn, info, insn_int_value, fields, (bfd_vma) 0);
 		  if (elength > 0)
 		    {
 		      /* sanity check */
 		      if (length != 0 && length != elength)
 			abort ();
-		      return insn;
+		      break;
 		    }
 		}
 	    }
@@ -525,15 +521,17 @@ cgen_lookup_insn (CGEN_CPU_DESC cd,
 
       /* ??? 0 is passed for `pc' */
       length = CGEN_EXTRACT_FN (cd, insn)
-	(cd, insn, info, base_insn, fields, (bfd_vma) 0);
+	(cd, insn, info, insn_int_value, fields, (bfd_vma) 0);
       /* Sanity check: must succeed.
 	 Could relax this later if it ever proves useful.  */
       if (length == 0)
 	abort ();
-      return insn;
     }
 
-  return NULL;
+  if (cd->int_insn_p)
+    free (insn_bytes_value);
+
+  return insn;
 }
 
 /* Fill in the operand instances used by INSN whose operands are FIELDS.


-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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