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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] ARM: Make the dumped instructions are consistent with the disassembled ones
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On 2022/10/10 18:10, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 11:56, Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>> In ARM, the mapping of instruction memory is always little-endian, except
>> some BE-32 supported ARM architectures. Such as ARMv7-R, its instruction
>> endianness may be BE-32. Of course, its data endianness will also be BE-32
>> mode. Due to two negatives make a positive, the instruction stored in the
>> register after reading is in little-endian format. But for the case of
>> BE-8, the instruction endianness is LE, the instruction stored in the
>> register after reading is in big-endian format, which is inconsistent
>> with the disassembled one.
>>
>> For example:
>> The content of disassembly:
>> c0429ee8: e3500000 cmp r0, #0
>> c0429eec: 159f2044 ldrne r2, [pc, #68]
>> c0429ef0: 108f2002 addne r2, pc, r2
>> c0429ef4: 1882000a stmne r2, {r1, r3}
>> c0429ef8: e7f000f0 udf #0
>>
>> The output of undefined instruction exception:
>> Internal error: Oops - undefined instruction: 0 [#1] SMP ARM
>> ... ...
>> Code: 000050e3 44209f15 02208f10 0a008218 (f000f0e7)
>>
>> This inconveniences the checking of instructions. What's worse is that,
>> for somebody who don't know about this, might think the instructions are
>> all broken.
>>
>> So, when CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8=y, let's convert the instructions to
>> little-endian format before they are printed. The conversion result is
>> as follows:
>> Code: e3500000 159f2044 108f2002 1882000a (e7f000f0)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 7 +++++++
>> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
>> index 34aa80c09c508c1..50b00c9091f079d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
>> @@ -193,6 +193,13 @@ static void dump_instr(const char *lvl, struct pt_regs *regs)
>> bad = get_user(val, &((u32 __user *)addr)[i]);
>> }
>>
>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_CPU_ENDIAN_BE8)) {
>> + if (thumb)
>> + val = (__force unsigned int)cpu_to_le16(val);
>
> Better use swab16() here instead of the ugly __force cast, given that
> the swab is going to occur unconditionally here.

Good idea.

>
>
>> + else
>> + val = (__force unsigned int)cpu_to_le32(val);
>
> and swab32() here

OK

>
>
>> + }
>> +
>> if (!bad)
>> p += sprintf(p, i == 0 ? "(%0*x) " : "%0*x ",
>> width, val);
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
>>
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> .
>

--
Regards,
Zhen Lei

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