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Illegal delay slot code causes abort on mips64

During some randomised testing of an experimental MIPS implementation I found an instruction sequence that also causes aborts on mainline qemu's MIPS support.  The problem is triggered by an MSA branch instruction appearing in a delay slot when emulating a processor without MSA support.

For example, with the current repository HEAD (f073cd3a2bf1054135271b837c58a7da650dd84b) configured for mips64-softmmu, if I run the attached binary using

    mips64-softmmu/qemu-system-mips64 -bios ../abort2.bin -machine mipssim -nographic

it will report

    unknown branch 0x13000
    Aborted (core dumped)

The binary contains the following two instructions:

    00200008 jr at
    47081e61 bz.b       w8,0xffffffffbfc0798c

The jr sets up a jump, and hflags is set accordingly in gen_compute_branch (in target/mips/translate.c).  When processing the bz.b, check_insn generates an exception because the instruction isn't support, but gen_msa_branch skips the usual delay slot check for the same reason, and sets more bits in hflags, leading to an abort in gen_branch because the hflags are now invalid.

I suspect the best fix is to remove the instruction set condition from the delay slot check in gen_msa_branch.