Re: [PATCH v3] Fix PTRACE_GETREGSET failure for compat inferiors on arm64

[Kees Cook <keescook at chromium dot org>]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> When running a 32-bit ARM inferior with a 32-bit ARM GDB on a 64-bit
> AArch64 host, only VFP registers (NT_ARM_VFP) are available. The FPA
> registers (NT_PRFPREG) are not available so GDB must not request them, as
> this will fail with -EINVAL.  This is most noticeably exposed when running
> "generate-core-file":
>
> (gdb) generate-core-file myprog.core
> Unable to fetch the floating point registers.: Invalid argument.
>
> ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, 27642, NT_FPREGSET, 0xffcc67f0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> 2016-12-19  Kees Cook  <keescook@google.com>
>
>     * gdb/arm-linux-nat.c: Skip soft-float registers when using hard-float.

Hi! Friendly ping on this patch. Are there any corrections to be made,
or can someone commit it?

Thanks!

-Kees

> ---
> v3:
> - argh, actually drop needless other change.
> v2:
> - check have_fpa_registers instead, dropped needless other change: qiyaoltc
> ---
>  gdb/arm-linux-nat.c | 8 +++++---
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/arm-linux-nat.c b/gdb/arm-linux-nat.c
> index d11bdc6..4fa5204 100644
> --- a/gdb/arm-linux-nat.c
> +++ b/gdb/arm-linux-nat.c
> @@ -384,13 +384,14 @@ arm_linux_fetch_inferior_registers (struct target_ops *ops,
>    if (-1 == regno)
>      {
>        fetch_regs (regcache);
> -      fetch_fpregs (regcache);
>        if (tdep->have_wmmx_registers)
>         fetch_wmmx_regs (regcache);
>        if (tdep->vfp_register_count > 0)
>         fetch_vfp_regs (regcache);
> +      if (tdep->have_fpa_registers)
> +       fetch_fpregs (regcache);
>      }
> -  else
> +  else
>      {
>        if (regno < ARM_F0_REGNUM || regno == ARM_PS_REGNUM)
>         fetch_regs (regcache);
> @@ -420,11 +421,12 @@ arm_linux_store_inferior_registers (struct target_ops *ops,
>    if (-1 == regno)
>      {
>        store_regs (regcache);
> -      store_fpregs (regcache);
>        if (tdep->have_wmmx_registers)
>         store_wmmx_regs (regcache);
>        if (tdep->vfp_register_count > 0)
>         store_vfp_regs (regcache);
> +      if (tdep->have_fpa_registers)
> +       store_fpregs (regcache);
>      }
>    else
>      {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Nexus Security



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Kees Cook
Nexus Security