masking mode field in mepc before mret Description of problem: I thought I found a bug in OpenSBI (https://github.com/riscv-software-src/opensbi/issues/391) but it actually is a QEMU bug. It is described here: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/opensbi/2025-March/008166.html Steps to reproduce: 1. use an application with vectored mode enabled (The RISC-V Instruction Set Manual: Volume II: Privileged Architecture / chapter 10.1.2) in QEMU 2. trigger an illegal instruction interrupt (handle it in machine mode - not by medeleg) 3. in a machine mode trap: Store STVEC in MEPC. 4. do a mret 5. the first bits of mepc are not masked so the address in mepc (comming from (v)stvec) will be false after mret Additional information: My guess is that the instructions from the following quote (masking of lower bits in mepc) from the official spec must be implemented here: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/blob/master/target/riscv/op_helper.c?ref_type=heads#L387 Maybe also somewhere else. > 3.1.14. Machine Exception Program Counter (mepc) > > mepc is an MXLEN-bit read/write register formatted as shown in Figure 21. The low bit of mepc > (mepc[0]) is always zero. On implementations that support only IALIGN=32, the two low bits > (mepc[1:0]) are always zero. > > If an implementation allows IALIGN to be either 16 or 32 (by changing CSR misa, for example), then, > whenever IALIGN=32, bit mepc[1] is masked on reads so that it appears to be 0. This masking occurs > also for the implicit read by the MRET instruction. Though masked, mepc[1] remains writable when > IALIGN=32. > > mepc is a WARL register that must be able to hold all valid virtual addresses. It need not be capable of > holding all possible invalid addresses. Prior to writing mepc, implementations may convert an invalid > address into some other invalid address that mepc is capable of holding.