public inbox for libc-alpha@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: "zhuyan \(M\)" <zhuyan34@huawei.com>,
	"libc-alpha\@sourceware.org" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] memcpy: use bhs/bls instead of bge/blt [BZ #25620]
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:36:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dy8rjlq.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2004142220180.15813@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (Joseph Myers's message of "Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:26:56 +0000")

* Joseph Myers:

> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, zhuyan (M) wrote:
>
>> In ARMv7, the memcpy() implementation allows for program execution to 
>> continue in scenarios where a segmentation fault or crash should have 
>> occurred. The dangers occur in that subsequent execution and iterations 
>> of this code will be executed with this corrupted data.
>> 
>> Such as, we use 'memcpy' copy 0x80000000 byte to buffer(The buffer size 
>> is 100 bytes), it didn't crash.
>
> This patch includes an architecture-specific test, specific to memcpy.  
> My understanding of Wilco's request in bug 25620 was for an 
> architecture-independent test or tests, covering all string functions with 
> such large arguments, so we can ensure we're consistent across 
> architectures.

Sure, that would be great, but can we make this independent of this
fix, please?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-21 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13 14:16 zhuyan (M)
2020-04-14 22:26 ` Joseph Myers
2020-04-21 14:36   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-04-21 21:27     ` Joseph Myers
2020-04-28 21:14       ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 20:33       ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 20:22 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-15 11:59 Wilco Dijkstra
2020-05-01 12:58 Wilco Dijkstra
2020-05-06 12:40 zhuyan (M)

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=877dy8rjlq.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de \
    --to=fw@deneb.enyo.de \
    --cc=joseph@codesourcery.com \
    --cc=libc-alpha@sourceware.org \
    --cc=zhuyan34@huawei.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).