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authorPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2022-04-01 13:26:57 +0100
committerPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2022-04-08 16:19:15 +0100
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gdb: Avoid undefined shifts, fix Go shifts
I noticed that a build of GDB with GCC + --enable-ubsan, testing against GDBserver showed this GDB crash: (gdb) PASS: gdb.trace/trace-condition.exp: trace: 0x00abababcdcdcdcd << 46 == 0x7373400000000000: advance to trace begin tstart ../../src/gdb/valarith.c:1365:15: runtime error: left shift of 48320975398096333 by 46 places cannot be represented in type 'long int' ERROR: GDB process no longer exists GDB process exited with wait status 269549 exp9 0 1 UNRESOLVED: gdb.trace/trace-condition.exp: trace: 0x00abababcdcdcdcd << 46 == 0x7373400000000000: start trace experiment The problem is that, "0x00abababcdcdcdcd << 46" is an undefined signed left shift, because the result is not representable in the type of the lhs, which is signed. This actually became defined in C++20, and if you compile with "g++ -std=c++20 -Wall", you'll see that GCC no longer warns about it, while it warns if you specify prior language versions. While at it, there are a couple other situations that are undefined (and are still undefined in C++20) and result in GDB dying: shifting by a negative ammount, or by >= than the bit size of the promoted lhs. For the latter, GDB shifts using (U)LONGEST internally, so you have to shift by >= 64 bits to see it: $ gdb --batch -q -ex "p 1 << -1" ../../src/gdb/valarith.c:1365:15: runtime error: shift exponent -1 is negative $ # gdb exited $ gdb --batch -q -ex "p 1 << 64" ../../src/gdb/valarith.c:1365:15: runtime error: shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'long int' $ # gdb exited Also, right shifting a negative value is implementation-defined (before C++20, after which it is defined). For this, I chose to change nothing in GDB other than adding tests, as I don't really know whether we need to do anything. AFAIK, most implementations do an arithmetic right shift, and it may be we don't support any host or target that behaves differently. Plus, this becomes defined in C++20 exactly as arithmetic right shift. Compilers don't error out on such shifts, at best they warn, so I think GDB should just continue doing the shifts anyhow too. Thus: - Adjust scalar_binop to avoid the undefined paths, either by adding explicit result paths, or by casting the lhs of the left shift to unsigned, as appropriate. For the shifts by a too-large count, I made the result be what you'd get if you split the large count in a series of smaller shifts. Thus: Left shift, positive or negative lhs: V << 64 => V << 16 << 16 << 16 << 16 => 0 Right shift, positive lhs: Vpos >> 64 => Vpos >> 16 >> 16 >> 16 >> 16 => 0 Right shift, negative lhs: Vneg >> 64 => Vneg >> 16 >> 16 >> 16 >> 16 => -1 This is actually Go's semantics (the compiler really emits instructions to make it so that you get 0 or -1 if you have a too-large shift). So for that language GDB does the shift and nothing else. For other C-like languages where such a shift is undefined, GDB warns in addition to performing the shift. For shift by a negative count, for Go, this is a hard error. For other languages, since their compilers only warn, I made GDB warn too. The semantics I chose (we're free to pick them since this is undefined behavior) is as-if you had shifted by the count cast to unsigned, thus as if you had shifted by a too-large count, thus the same as the previous scenario illustrated above. Examples: (gdb) set language go (gdb) p 1 << 100 $1 = 0 (gdb) p -1 << 100 $2 = 0 (gdb) p 1 >> 100 $3 = 0 (gdb) p -1 >> 100 $4 = -1 (gdb) p -2 >> 100 $5 = -1 (gdb) p 1 << -1 left shift count is negative (gdb) set language c (gdb) p -2 >> 100 warning: right shift count >= width of type $6 = -1 (gdb) p -2 << 100 warning: left shift count >= width of type $7 = 0 (gdb) p 1 << -1 warning: left shift count is negative $8 = 0 (gdb) p -1 >> -1 warning: right shift count is negative $9 = -1 - The warnings' texts are the same as what GCC prints. - Add comprehensive tests in a new gdb.base/bitshift.exp testcase, so that we exercise all these scenarios. Change-Id: I8bcd5fa02de3114b7ababc03e65702d86ec8d45d
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