[PATCH] S390: Fix crash when remote tdesc doesn't define vec128

Andreas Arnez arnez@linux.ibm.com
Thu Oct 18 17:54:00 GMT 2018


I've encountered a GDB crash when trying to read registers from a remote
stub that provided a target.xml with vector registers, but without the
'vec128' data type.  The crash is caused by NULL register type entries for
the "concatenated" pseudo-registers v0-v15.  These NULL entries are
introduced by the logic in s390_pseudo_register_type(), where the tdesc
type 'vec128' is returned unconditionally -- even if it doesn't exist (is
NULL).

The fixed logic for determining a "concatenated" vector register's type
now returns the type of the raw register v16 instead.  This also makes
sure that all vector register have the same type.
---
 gdb/s390-tdep.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/s390-tdep.c b/gdb/s390-tdep.c
index 81fa0329ea..23689aa71a 100644
--- a/gdb/s390-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/s390-tdep.c
@@ -1275,8 +1275,9 @@ s390_pseudo_register_type (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int regnum)
   if (regnum_is_gpr_full (tdep, regnum))
     return builtin_type (gdbarch)->builtin_uint64;
 
+  /* For the "concatenated" vector registers use the same type as v16.  */
   if (regnum_is_vxr_full (tdep, regnum))
-    return tdesc_find_type (gdbarch, "vec128");
+    return tdesc_register_type (gdbarch, S390_V16_REGNUM);
 
   internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__, _("invalid regnum"));
 }
-- 
2.17.0



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