When compiling gdb with -fsanitize=address on ARM, I get a crash in test
gdb.arch/arm-disp-step.exp, reproduced easily with:
$ ./gdb -nx -q --data-directory=data-directory testsuite/outputs/gdb.arch/arm-disp-step/arm-disp-step -ex "break *test_call_end"
Reading symbols from testsuite/outputs/gdb.arch/arm-disp-step/arm-disp-step...
=================================================================
==23295==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0xb4a14fd1 at pc 0x01a48871 bp 0xbeab8490 sp 0xbeab8494
Since it doesn't require running the program, it can be reproduced locally on a
dev machine other than ARM, after acquiring the test binary.
The length of the allocate buffer `buf` is 1, and we try to extract an
integer of size 2 from it. The length of 1 comes from the subtraction
`bpaddr - boundary`. Normally, on ARM, all instructions are aligned on
a multiple of 2, so it's weird for this subtraction to result in 1. In
this case, boundary comes from the result of find_pc_partial_function
returning 0x549:
(gdb) p/x bpaddr
$2 = 0x54a
(gdb) p/x boundary
$3 = 0x549
(gdb) p/x bpaddr - boundary
$4 = 0x1
0x549 is the address of the test_call_subr label, 0x548, with the thumb
bit enabled. Before doing some math with the address, I think we need
to strip the thumb bit, like is done elsewhere (for instance for bpaddr
earlier in the same function).
I wonder if find_pc_partial_function should do that itself, in order to
return an address that is suitable for arithmetic. In any case, that
would be a change with a broad impact, so for now just fix the issue
locally.
After the patch:
$ ./gdb -nx -q --data-directory=data-directory testsuite/outputs/gdb.arch/arm-disp-step/arm-disp-step -ex "break *test_call_end"
Reading symbols from testsuite/outputs/gdb.arch/arm-disp-step/arm-disp-step...
Breakpoint 1 at 0x54a: file /home/smarchi/src/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/arm-disp-step.S, line 103.
Change-Id: I74fc458dbea0d2c1e1f5eadd90755188df089288
Approved-By: Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>
bpaddr = gdbarch_addr_bits_remove (gdbarch, bpaddr);
- if (find_pc_partial_function (bpaddr, NULL, &func_start, NULL)
- && func_start > boundary)
- boundary = func_start;
+ if (find_pc_partial_function (bpaddr, NULL, &func_start, NULL))
+ {
+ func_start = gdbarch_addr_bits_remove (gdbarch, func_start);
+ if (func_start > boundary)
+ boundary = func_start;
+ }
/* Search for a candidate IT instruction. We have to do some fancy
footwork to distinguish a real IT instruction from the second