On 24/02/2026 18:49, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Florian Hofhammer <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> The opaque register handle encodes whether a register is read-only in
>> the lowest bit and prevents writing to the register via the plugin API
>> in this case.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Hofhammer <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  plugins/api.c | 11 +++++++----
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/plugins/api.c b/plugins/api.c
>> index b2c52d2a09..3a8479ddce 100644
>> --- a/plugins/api.c
>> +++ b/plugins/api.c
>> @@ -424,6 +424,7 @@ static GArray *create_register_handles(GArray 
>> *gdbstub_regs)
>>      for (int i = 0; i < gdbstub_regs->len; i++) {
>>          GDBRegDesc *grd = &g_array_index(gdbstub_regs, GDBRegDesc, i);
>>          qemu_plugin_reg_descriptor desc;
>> +        gint plugin_ro_bit = 0;
>>  
>>          /* skip "un-named" regs */
>>          if (!grd->name) {
>> @@ -431,7 +432,6 @@ static GArray *create_register_handles(GArray 
>> *gdbstub_regs)
>>          }
>>  
>>          /* Create a record for the plugin */
>> -        desc.handle = GINT_TO_POINTER(grd->gdb_reg + 1);
>>          desc.name = g_intern_string(grd->name);
>>          desc.is_readonly = false;
>>          if (g_strcmp0(desc.name, pc_str) == 0
>> @@ -442,7 +442,9 @@ static GArray *create_register_handles(GArray 
>> *gdbstub_regs)
>>              || g_strcmp0(desc.name, rpc_str) == 0
>>             ) {
>>              desc.is_readonly = true;
>> +            plugin_ro_bit = 1;
>>          }
>> +        desc.handle = GINT_TO_POINTER((grd->gdb_reg << 1) | plugin_ro_bit);
>>          desc.feature = g_intern_string(grd->feature_name);
>>          g_array_append_val(find_data, desc);
>>      }
>> @@ -467,7 +469,7 @@ bool qemu_plugin_read_register(struct 
>> qemu_plugin_register *reg,
>>          return false;
>>      }
>>  
>> -    return (gdb_read_register(current_cpu, buf, GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) - 1) > 
>> 0);
>> +    return (gdb_read_register(current_cpu, buf, GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) >> 1) 
>> > 0);
>>  }
>>  
>>  bool qemu_plugin_write_register(struct qemu_plugin_register *reg,
>> @@ -476,11 +478,12 @@ bool qemu_plugin_write_register(struct 
>> qemu_plugin_register *reg,
>>      g_assert(current_cpu);
>>  
>>      if (buf->len == 0 || (qemu_plugin_get_cb_flags() != 
>> QEMU_PLUGIN_CB_RW_REGS &&
>> -                          qemu_plugin_get_cb_flags() != 
>> QEMU_PLUGIN_CB_RW_REGS_PC)) {
>> +                          qemu_plugin_get_cb_flags() != 
>> QEMU_PLUGIN_CB_RW_REGS_PC)
>> +        || (GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) & 1)) {
> 
> Maybe this is better as:
> 
>       g_assert(GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) & 1 == 0);
> 
>       if (buf->len == 0 || (qemu_plugin_get_cb_flags() != 
> QEMU_PLUGIN_CB_RW_REGS &&...
> 
> again the plugin is trying to do something it shouldn't.

As far as I can tell, there's currently no mechanism in the test setup
to check that a certain assertion is triggered. In the previous test, I
just checked whether the API returns false when I try to write to a
read-only register, but now I'd need to check in my test whether the
assert triggers.

Should I check that in a wrapper script, test only the read path, or
follow a completely different approach for this?

> 
>>          return false;
>>      }
>>  
>> -    return (gdb_write_register(current_cpu, buf->data, GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) 
>> - 1) > 0);
>> +    return (gdb_write_register(current_cpu, buf->data, GPOINTER_TO_INT(reg) 
>> >> 1) > 0);
>>  }
>>  
>>  void qemu_plugin_set_pc(uint64_t vaddr)
> 

Best regards,
Florian

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