Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v1 0/2] s390x/tcg: STFLE fixes

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, 31 May 2019 16:56:06 +0200
David Hildenbrand <address@hidden> wrote:

> While testing vector instructions, I ran into various issues with
> user space binaries compiled with more recent compiler versions like
> 
> # gunzip /usr/share/man/man1/hexdump.1.gz
> <dhildenb> *** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated
> 
> Turns out:
> a) the STFLE instruction in semi-broken on the first invocation
> b) the code expects a different STFLE behavior than documented in the PoP
> 
> Fix a) and make sure the code works by adjusting b).
> 

So your problems actually did not have anything to do with vector
instructions and were simply exposed by running binaries compiled with a
more recent compiler version, right? Interesting :)

> David Hildenbrand (2):
>   s390x/tcg: Fix max_byte detection for stfle
>   s390x/tcg: Store only the necessary amount of doublewords for STFLE
> 
>  target/s390x/misc_helper.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

Do you want to include these in a pull request, or should I pick them
up myself?