On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 11:06 AM Brian Cain <[email protected]>
wrote:

> A duplex encoding like 0x00000000 decodes as two loads that both write r0.
>
> Add a check in decode_insns() after both sub-instructions decode
> successfully to verify they don't write the same destination register.
>
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2696
> Signed-off-by: Brian Cain <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <[email protected]>
> ---
>  target/hexagon/decode.c              | 12 ++++++++++++
>  tests/tcg/hexagon/invalid-encoding.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/target/hexagon/decode.c b/target/hexagon/decode.c
> index 69ba1ec96c..90499fc320 100644
> --- a/target/hexagon/decode.c
> +++ b/target/hexagon/decode.c
> @@ -501,12 +501,24 @@ decode_insns(DisasContext *ctx, Insn *insn, uint32_t
> encoding)
>
>          /* The slot1 subinsn needs to be in the packet first */
>          if (decode_slot1_subinsn(ctx, slot1_subinsn)) {
> +            Insn *slot1_insn = insn;
>              insn->generate = opcode_genptr[insn->opcode];
>              insn->iclass = iclass_bits(encoding);
>              ctx->insn = ++insn;
>              if (decode_slot0_subinsn(ctx, slot0_subinsn)) {
>                  insn->generate = opcode_genptr[insn->opcode];
>                  insn->iclass = iclass_bits(encoding);
> +                /*
> +                 * Check that the two sub-instructions don't write the
> same
> +                 * destination register (e.g., encoding 0x0 decodes as two
> +                 * loads both writing R0, which is an invalid packet).
> +                 */
> +                if (insn->dest_idx >= 0 && slot1_insn->dest_idx >= 0 &&
> +                    insn->regno[insn->dest_idx] ==
> +                        slot1_insn->regno[slot1_insn->dest_idx]) {
> +                    ctx->insn = --insn;
> +                    return 0;
> +                }
>
> Isn't this a more general problem than what is checked here?  What if two
non-duplex instructions write the same register?  What if an instruction
writes more than one register (e.g., post-increment load)?

Let the decoding go ahead and finish, then add a check for duplicate writes
for the whole packet.  Look at ctx_log_reg_write - called during
analyze_packet.

Thanks,
Taylor

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