> On Oct 8, 2020, at 8:55 PM, Jason Molenda <jmole...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> Good bug find!
> 
> It seems to me that DWARFCallFrameInfo should push the initial CIE register 
> setup instructions as being the state at offset 0 in the function (in fact 
> I'd say it's a bug if it's not). If that were done, then getting 
> RowAtIndex(0) should be synonymous with get-the-CIE-register-unwind-rules, 
> and this code would be correct.
> 
> Looking at DWARFCallFrameInfo::FDEToUnwindPlan, we do
> 
>  unwind_plan.SetPlanValidAddressRange(range);
>  UnwindPlan::Row *cie_initial_row = new UnwindPlan::Row;
>  *cie_initial_row = cie->initial_row;
>  UnwindPlan::RowSP row(cie_initial_row);
> 
>  unwind_plan.SetRegisterKind(GetRegisterKind());
>  unwind_plan.SetReturnAddressRegister(cie->return_addr_reg_num);
> 
> cie->initial_row is set by DWARFCallFrameInfo::HandleCommonDwarfOpcode.
> 
> I think the bug here is DWARFCallFrameInfo::FDEToUnwindPlan not pushing that 
> initial row at offset 0, isn't it? We don't really use DWARF CFI on darwin 
> any more so I don't have a lot of real world experience here.

The only opcodes that push a row are DW_CFA_advance_locXXX and DW_CFA_set_loc, 
so I don't think that is the right fix. I think we need to pass a copy of just 
the registers from the "cie->initial_row" object around to the opcode parsing 
code for restoration purposes.


> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 8, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Greg Clayton <clayb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello LLDB devs,
>> 
>> This is a deep dive into an issue I found in the LLDB handling of DWARF call 
>> frame information, so no need to read further if this doesn't interest you!
>> 
>> I am in the process of adding some support to LLVM for parsing the opcode 
>> state machines for CIE and FDE objects that produces unwind rows. While 
>> making unit tests to test DW_CFA_restore and DW_CFA_restore_extended 
>> opcodes, I read the DWARF spec that states:
>> 
>> "The DW_CFA_restore instruction takes a single operand (encoded with the 
>> opcode) that represents a register number. The required action is to change 
>> the rule for the indicated register to the rule assigned it by the 
>> initial_instructions in the CIE."
>> 
>> Looking at the LLDB code in DWARFCallFrameInfo.cpp I see code that is 
>> simplified to:
>> 
>> case DW_CFA_restore:
>> if (unwind_plan.IsValidRowIndex(0) && 
>>     unwind_plan.GetRowAtIndex(0)->GetRegisterInfo(reg_num, reg_location))
>>         row->SetRegisterInfo(reg_num, reg_location);
>> break;
>> 
>> 
>> The issue is, the CIE contains initial instructions, but it doesn't push a 
>> row after doing these instructions, the FDE will push a row when it emits a 
>> DW_CFA_advance_loc, DW_CFA_advance_loc1, DW_CFA_advance_loc2, 
>> DW_CFA_advance_loc4 or DW_CFA_set_loc opcode. So the DWARF spec says we 
>> should restore the register rule to be what it was in the CIE's initial 
>> instructions, but we are restoring it to the first row that was parsed. This 
>> will mostly not get us into trouble because .debug_frame and .eh_frame 
>> usually have a DW_CFA_advance_locXXX or DW_CFA_set_loc opcode as the first 
>> opcode, but it isn't a requirement and a FDE could modify a register value 
>> prior to pushing the first row at index zero. So we might be restoring the 
>> register incorrectly in some cases according to the spec. Also, what if 
>> there was no value specified in the CIE's initial instructions for a 
>> register? Should we remove the register value to match the state of the 
>> CIE's initial instructions if there is no rule for the register? We are 
>> currently leaving this register as having the same value if there is no 
>> value for the register in the first row.
>> 
>> Let me know what you think.
>> 
>> Greg Clayton
>> 
> 

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