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I found this only by inspection: the myaddr pointer in
{get,put}_frame_register_bytes is reset to `buffer.data ()` at each
iteration. This means that we will always use the bytes at the
beginning of `buffer` to read or write to the registers, instead of
progressing in `buffer`.
Fix this by re-writing the functions to chip away the beginning of the
buffer array_view as we progress in reading or writing the data.
These bugs was introduced almost 3 years ago [1], and yet nobody
complained. I'm wondering which architecture relies on that register
"overflow" behavior (reading or writing multiple consecutive registers
with one {get,put}_frame_register_bytes calls), and in which situation.
I find these functions a bit dangerous, if a caller mis-calculates
things, it could end up silently reading or writing to the next
register, even if it's not the intent.
If I could change it, I would prefer to have functions specifically made
for that ({get,put}_frame_register_bytes_consecutive or something like
that) and make {get,put}_frame_register_bytes only able to write within
a single register (which I presume represents most of the use cases of
the current {get,put}_frame_register_bytes). If a caller mis-calculates
things and an overflow occurs while calling
{get,put}_frame_register_bytes, it would hit an assert. The problem is
knowing which callers rely on the overflow behavior and which don't.
[1] bdec2917b1
Change-Id: I43bd4a9f7fa8419d388a2b20bdc57d652688ddf8
Reviewed-By: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
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