cfallin requested abrown and julian-seward1 for a review on PR #2490.
cfallin requested abrown and julian-seward1 for a review on PR #2490.
cfallin opened PR #2490 from fix-popcnt-load-width
to main
:
As a subtle consequence of the recent load-op fusion, popcnt of a
value that came from a load.i32 was compiling into a 64-bit load. This
is a result of the way in which x86 infers the width of loads: it is a
consequence of the instruction containing the memory reference, not the
memory reference itself. So theinput_to_reg_mem()
helper (convert an
instruction input into a register or memory reference) was providing the
appropriate memory reference for the result of a load.i32, but never
encoded the assumption that it would only be used in a 32-bit
instruction. It turns out that popcnt.i32 uses a 64-bit instruction to
load this RM op, hence widening a 32-bit to 64-bit load (which is
problematic when the offset is (memory_length - 4)).Separately, popcnt was using the RM operand twice, resulting in two
loads if we merged a load. This isn't a correctness bug in practice
because only a racy sequence (store interleaving between the loads)
would produce incorrect results, but we decided earlier to treat loads
as effectful for now, neither reordering nor duplicating them, to
deliberately reduce complexity.Because of the second issue, the fix is just to force the operand into a
register always, so any source load will not be merged.Discovered via fuzzing with oss-fuzz.
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bjorn3 submitted PR Review.
bjorn3 created PR Review Comment:
// N.B.: explicitly put input in a reg here because the width of the instruction
cfallin submitted PR Review.
cfallin created PR Review Comment:
Thanks!
cfallin updated PR #2490 from fix-popcnt-load-width
to main
:
As a subtle consequence of the recent load-op fusion, popcnt of a
value that came from a load.i32 was compiling into a 64-bit load. This
is a result of the way in which x86 infers the width of loads: it is a
consequence of the instruction containing the memory reference, not the
memory reference itself. So theinput_to_reg_mem()
helper (convert an
instruction input into a register or memory reference) was providing the
appropriate memory reference for the result of a load.i32, but never
encoded the assumption that it would only be used in a 32-bit
instruction. It turns out that popcnt.i32 uses a 64-bit instruction to
load this RM op, hence widening a 32-bit to 64-bit load (which is
problematic when the offset is (memory_length - 4)).Separately, popcnt was using the RM operand twice, resulting in two
loads if we merged a load. This isn't a correctness bug in practice
because only a racy sequence (store interleaving between the loads)
would produce incorrect results, but we decided earlier to treat loads
as effectful for now, neither reordering nor duplicating them, to
deliberately reduce complexity.Because of the second issue, the fix is just to force the operand into a
register always, so any source load will not be merged.Discovered via fuzzing with oss-fuzz.
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julian-seward1 submitted PR Review.
cfallin merged PR #2490.
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