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Ship it!


Tested on X86 booting FreeBSD reverting my own simple workaround.
I can say that gem5 does no longer panic when booting FreeBSD FS with this 
patch applied.
I cannot say whether it works correctly currently.
However it improves the situation :)

- Bjoern A. Zeeb


On Nov. 1, 2016, 7:36 p.m., Tony Gutierrez wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 1, 2016, 7:36 p.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 11888:ed39f10e4ff3
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> x86, ext: fix buf overflow in fp80 ops; pad fp80_t in fputils
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> the compiler seems to align the fp80_t data struct, so here we add
> explicit padding to avoid confusion.
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> storeFloat80() will try to write all 16B of the fp80_t to the bits[] array
> of the calling instruction. this happens because storeFloat80() points its
> local fp80_t* to the memory the caller allocated for bits[], which is only
> 10B, thus we get an overflow that is flagged by clang's asan. here we
> get the fp80 value first, the memcpy() the bits[] of fp80_t to the mem
> allocated by the caller.
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> Diffs
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>   ext/fputils/fpbits.h c38fcdaa5fe508dbb18cc084e758ad0ce8e2e2f4 
>   ext/fputils/include/fputils/fptypes.h 
> c38fcdaa5fe508dbb18cc084e758ad0ce8e2e2f4 
>   src/arch/x86/isa/microops/fpop.isa c38fcdaa5fe508dbb18cc084e758ad0ce8e2e2f4 
>   src/arch/x86/utility.cc c38fcdaa5fe508dbb18cc084e758ad0ce8e2e2f4 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/3690/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Tony Gutierrez
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