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fix heap corruption on LP64 platforms#90

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@tlyu tlyu commented Jun 6, 2022

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Mixing unsigned long and int on LP64 platforms caused the chunksize adjustment to be wrong for flash memory reads from "negative" addresses. This caused runaway reads and heap corruption, because chunksize was being adjusted to be greater than numBytes. Simplify the computation by computing the offset within the page using a mask, and use the difference between pageSize and offset to limit chunksize.

This is less necessary after the qXfer:memory-map:read support was added, but it's definitely needed in 2.13, and maybe some older GDB versions don't support qXfer:memory-map:read.

Fixes #107.

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tlyu marked this pull request as draft December 28, 2023 03:26
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Converted to draft, because jtag3rw.cc probably also needs a similar change.

Mixing unsigned long and int on LP64 platforms caused the chunksize
adjustment to be wrong for flash memory reads from "negative"
addresses. This caused runaway reads and heap corruption, because
chunksize was being adjusted to be greater than numBytes. Simplify
the computation by computing the offset within the page using a mask,
and use the difference between pageSize and offset to limit chunksize.

This is less necessary after the qXfer:memory-map:read support
was added, but it's definitely needed in 2.13, and maybe some
older GDB versions don't support qXfer:memory-map:read.
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tlyu marked this pull request as ready for review December 28, 2023 17:29
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DebugWire flash read causes heap corruption on LP64 hosts

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