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-rw-r--r--target/riscv/csr.c24
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/target/riscv/csr.c b/target/riscv/csr.c
index 68eecc3c96..85a31dc420 100644
--- a/target/riscv/csr.c
+++ b/target/riscv/csr.c
@@ -3917,21 +3917,27 @@ static RISCVException riscv_csrrw_do64(CPURISCVState *env, int csrno,
                                        target_ulong write_mask)
 {
     RISCVException ret;
-    target_ulong old_value;
+    target_ulong old_value = 0;
 
     /* execute combined read/write operation if it exists */
     if (csr_ops[csrno].op) {
         return csr_ops[csrno].op(env, csrno, ret_value, new_value, write_mask);
     }
 
-    /* if no accessor exists then return failure */
-    if (!csr_ops[csrno].read) {
-        return RISCV_EXCP_ILLEGAL_INST;
-    }
-    /* read old value */
-    ret = csr_ops[csrno].read(env, csrno, &old_value);
-    if (ret != RISCV_EXCP_NONE) {
-        return ret;
+    /*
+     * ret_value == NULL means that rd=x0 and we're coming from helper_csrw()
+     * and we can't throw side effects caused by CSR reads.
+     */
+    if (ret_value) {
+        /* if no accessor exists then return failure */
+        if (!csr_ops[csrno].read) {
+            return RISCV_EXCP_ILLEGAL_INST;
+        }
+        /* read old value */
+        ret = csr_ops[csrno].read(env, csrno, &old_value);
+        if (ret != RISCV_EXCP_NONE) {
+            return ret;
+        }
     }
 
     /* write value if writable and write mask set, otherwise drop writes */