From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Luis <luis.machado.foss@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] GDB: aarch64: Fix inferior function call if GCS is present but disabled
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 03:03:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708060331.347616-1-thiago.bauermann@linaro.org> (raw)
On AArch64, even if the Guarded Control Stack feature is present on the
system the inferior may not have enabled it.
There's a bug in GDB's GCS support in that if the system supports GCS,
GDB will always push a GCS entry when doing an inferior function call
even if the inferior doesn't have it enabled. This causes inferior
function calls to fail. E.g.:
(gdb) p foo ()
Can't write to Guarded Control Stack.
The error message is because the GCSPR doesn't point to a valid memory
address.
Fix by checking whether GCS is enabled in the inferior before trying to
push a GCS entry.
Regression tested on an aarch64-linux-gnu QEMU VM with GCS present.
---
GCS support first appeared in GDB 17, so if this patch is approved for
trunk is it ok to also commit it to the branch?
gdb/aarch64-tdep.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
index 886e7ce1e7b6..b4437dcccc8a 100644
--- a/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/aarch64-tdep.c
@@ -1934,7 +1934,11 @@ static void
aarch64_shadow_stack_push (gdbarch *gdbarch, CORE_ADDR new_addr,
regcache *regcache)
{
- aarch64_push_gcs_entry (regcache, new_addr);
+ bool gcs_is_enabled;
+
+ gdbarch_get_shadow_stack_pointer (gdbarch, regcache, gcs_is_enabled);
+ if (gcs_is_enabled)
+ aarch64_push_gcs_entry (regcache, new_addr);
}
/* Implement the "push_dummy_call" gdbarch method. */
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 6:03 Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2026-07-08 7:50 ` Aktemur, Baris
2026-07-08 19:43 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-21 16:38 ` Tom Tromey
2026-07-22 20:23 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-07-22 22:27 ` Tom Tromey
2026-07-19 8:57 ` Luis
2026-07-22 19:59 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
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