On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Yuri Gribov <tetra2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:20 AM, 'Dmitry Vyukov' via
> address-sanitizer <address-sanitizer@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:11 AM, evgeny777 <evgeny.levi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks for clarifying it, Dmitry.
>>>
>>> Here is piece of report I get:
>>>
>>> ==18244==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address
>>> 0x60200000001a at pc 0x0000005a9cad bp 0x7ffc10528760 sp 0x7ffc10528740
>>> WRITE of size 1 at 0x60200000001a thread T0
>>>     #0 0x5a9cac  (/home/evgeny/work/linker_scripts/asan/asan+0x5a9cac)
>>>     #1 0x7f310488082f  (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x2082f)
>>>     #2 0x419498  (/home/evgeny/work/linker_scripts/asan/asan+0x419498)
>>>
>>> ....
>>>
>>> Below is the piece of disassembly of main :
>>>
>>>     .....
>>>     0x5a9ca8 <+136>: callq  0x56d9d0                  ;
>>> ::__asan_report_store1(__sanitizer::uptr) at asan_rtl.cc:136
>>>     0x5a9cad <+141>: xorl   %eax, %eax
>>>     .....
>>>
>>> As you may noticed 0x5a9cac == (0x5a9cad - 1)
>>
>>
>> I think tsan prints unmodified PC and we should do the same in asan.
>> This also reliefs us from figuring out correct instruction length on
>> ARM/thumb/etc as nobody sees the modified PC.
>
> Hm, the unmodified PC will make symbolized stacktraces less readable.
> What's the problem with "-1"? Addr2line and other bintools work fine
> with it.

I literally mean "print unmodified PC" (as a hex value). I am not
proposing to change how symbolization works.

>>> On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 12:01:25 PM UTC+3, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:44 AM, evgeny777 <evgeny....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > I noticed that GetPreviousInstructionPc() function returns 'pc - 1' for
>>>> > both
>>>> > arm32 and arm64.
>>>> > This causes odd addresses to appear in stack traces, which is nonsense,
>>>> > as
>>>> > both arm32/64 instructions
>>>> > have 4 byte size and alignment.
>>>> >
>>>> > The x86 and x86_64 cases are even more confusing, because instruction
>>>> > length
>>>> > is not constant. What exactly this 'pc - 1' is expected to return?
>>>> >
>>>> > But even if one is able to get previous instruction address correctly he
>>>> > may
>>>> > still get confusing results. In case some instruction triggers
>>>> > hardware exception, its address will go to ASAN stack trace (via
>>>> > SlowUnwindStackWithContext). Returning address of previous instruction
>>>> > in such case can be extremely confusing.
>>>> >
>>>> > Is there any point in using this function?
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Yes, there is a very bold point in using this function.
>>>> Typically top frame PC is obtained with __builtin_return_address,
>>>> which means that it points to the next instruction after the call. And
>>>> we need to obtain debug info associated with the call instruction. To
>>>> achieve that we subtract 1 from PC. All symbolization code that we've
>>>> seen is fine with PC pointing into a middle of an instruction.
>>>>
>>>> Now, if we print pc-1 in reports (do we?), then it's a bug. We need to
>>>> print unaltered PC in reports.
>>>>
>>>> Re hardware exceptions. This needs to be fixed. A trivial change would
>>>> be to add 1 to PCs pointing to faulting instruction. Then
>>>> GetPreviousInstructionPc will offset this and we get correct debug
>>>> info. However, then we will print incorrect PC in report. So a proper
>>>> fix would be to augment all stack traces with a flag saying if top PC
>>>> needs to be adjusted during symbolization or not.
>>>
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