[PATCH] x86/gas: replace inappropriate assertion when parsing registers
Jan Beulich
jbeulich@suse.com
Wed Feb 15 07:44:24 GMT 2023
PR gas/30117
Once a symbol had its expression evaluated, the "segment" of the symbol
may be reg_section if a register is merely involved in the expression,
not just when the expression references a "plain" register. Therefore
the first of the assertions put in place by 4d1bb7955a8b was too strict.
Convert it to an if() to deal with situations like this one found by
fuzzing:
x=s
s=%eax+0
y=s
or $6,x
In non-debug builds this also avoids potentially silently generating bad
code.
--- a/gas/config/tc-i386.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-i386.c
@@ -13057,17 +13057,19 @@ parse_register (char *reg_string, char *
{
const expressionS *e = symbol_get_value_expression (symbolP);
- know (e->X_op == O_register);
- know (e->X_add_number >= 0
- && (valueT) e->X_add_number < i386_regtab_size);
- r = i386_regtab + e->X_add_number;
- if (!check_register (r))
+ if (e->X_op == O_register)
+ {
+ know (e->X_add_number >= 0
+ && (valueT) e->X_add_number < i386_regtab_size);
+ r = i386_regtab + e->X_add_number;
+ *end_op = input_line_pointer;
+ }
+ if (r && !check_register (r))
{
as_bad (_("register '%s%s' cannot be used here"),
register_prefix, r->reg_name);
r = &bad_reg;
}
- *end_op = input_line_pointer;
}
*input_line_pointer = c;
input_line_pointer = save;
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