Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: Do not subtract offset from end address

[Riku Voipio]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 01:43:13PM -0600, Tom Musta wrote:
> When computing the upper address of a program segment, do not subtract the
> offset from the virtual address; instead compute the sum of the virtual 
> address
> and the memory size.

Thanks, I'll test this and try to get it applied ASAP. Jonas, can you
have a look and provide your Acked-by/Tested-by ?

Riku

> Signed-off-by: Tom Musta <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
> Please include this patch in QEMU 2.2.  
> 
> Commit a93934fecd4dffc9d4b452b670c9506be5dea30d injected a regression of Linux
> User Mode that I was able to detect on PowerPC 64 (but not x86).  I suspect 
> that
> large page size on the host has something to do with it.  In any case, that 
> commit
> adjusted the lower address of a program segment by the program header's 
> offset 
> field.  However, it also inadvertantly adjusted the upper address by the 
> offset also.
> 
>  linux-user/elfload.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/linux-user/elfload.c b/linux-user/elfload.c
> index 84123ba..e2596a4 100644
> --- a/linux-user/elfload.c
> +++ b/linux-user/elfload.c
> @@ -1824,7 +1824,7 @@ static void load_elf_image(const char *image_name, int 
> image_fd,
>              if (a < loaddr) {
>                  loaddr = a;
>              }
> -            a += phdr[i].p_memsz;
> +            a = phdr[i].p_vaddr + phdr[i].p_memsz;
>              if (a > hiaddr) {
>                  hiaddr = a;
>              }
> -- 
> 1.7.1