Re: [PATCH] arm: kgdb: fix NUMREGBYTES so that gdb_regs[] is the correct size

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Fri Apr 06 2018 - 09:25:26 EST


On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 04:09:16PM -0400, David Rivshin wrote:
> From: David Rivshin <DRivshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NUMREGBYTES (which is used as the size for gdb_regs[]) is incorrectly based
> on DBG_MAX_REG_NUM instead of GDB_MAX_REGS. DBG_MAX_REG_NUM is the number
> of total registers, while GDB_MAX_REGS is the number of 'unsigned longs'
> it takes to serialize those registers. Since FP registers require 3
> 'unsigned longs' each, DBG_MAX_REG_NUM is smaller than GDB_MAX_REGS.
>
> This causes GDB 8.0 give the following error on connect:
> "Truncated register 19 in remote 'g' packet"
>
> This also causes the register serialization/deserialization logic to
> overflow gdb_regs[], overwriting whatever follows.
>
> Fixes: 834b2964b7ab ("kgdb,arm: fix register dump")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 2.6.37+
> Signed-off-by: David Rivshin <drivshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

I pointed some trivial autotests at both gdb-7.12 and gdb-8.0. Results
look good to me!

Tested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h
> index 3b73fdcf3627a..8de1100d10674 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h
> +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/kgdb.h
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ extern int kgdb_fault_expected;
>
> #define KGDB_MAX_NO_CPUS 1
> #define BUFMAX 400
> -#define NUMREGBYTES (DBG_MAX_REG_NUM << 2)
> +#define NUMREGBYTES (GDB_MAX_REGS << 2)
> #define NUMCRITREGBYTES (32 << 2)
>
> #define _R0 0
>
> base-commit: 0adb32858b0bddf4ada5f364a84ed60b196dbcda
> --
> 2.14.3
>