Nitpick: the bug was introduced between 6.2.0 and 7.0.0, so "qemu >= v7.0.0"
~Markus
On 2023-07-28 06:54, Helge Deller wrote:
> Commit 7f4f0d9ea870 ("linux-user/arm: Implement __kernel_cmpxchg with host
> atomics") switched to use qatomic_cmpxchg() to swap a word with the memory
> content, but missed to endianess-swap the oldval and newval values when
> emulating an armeb CPU, which expects words to be stored in big endian in
> the guest memory.
>
> The bug can be verified with qemu >= v7.2 on any little-endian host, when
> starting the armeb binary of the upx program, which just hangs without
> this patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Reported-by: "Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer" <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: John Reiser <[email protected]>
> Closes: https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/687
>
> --
> v2:
> - add tswap32() in arm_kernel_cmpxchg64_helper()
>
>
> diff --git a/linux-user/arm/cpu_loop.c b/linux-user/arm/cpu_loop.c
> index a992423257..0907cd8c15 100644
> --- a/linux-user/arm/cpu_loop.c
> +++ b/linux-user/arm/cpu_loop.c
> @@ -117,8 +117,9 @@ static void arm_kernel_cmpxchg32_helper(CPUARMState *env)
> {
> uint32_t oldval, newval, val, addr, cpsr, *host_addr;
>
> - oldval = env->regs[0];
> - newval = env->regs[1];
> + /* endianess-swap if emulating armeb */
> + oldval = tswap32(env->regs[0]);
> + newval = tswap32(env->regs[1]);
> addr = env->regs[2];
>
> mmap_lock();
> @@ -174,6 +175,10 @@ static void arm_kernel_cmpxchg64_helper(CPUARMState *env)
> return;
> }
>
> + /* endianess-swap if emulating armeb */
> + oldval = tswap32(oldval);
> + newval = tswap32(newval);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC64
> val = qatomic_cmpxchg__nocheck(host_addr, oldval, newval);
> cpsr = (val == oldval) * CPSR_C;
>
--
Markus Oberhumer, <[email protected]>, http://www.oberhumer.com/
