This patch introduces a "MallocTracer" to the UserspaceEmulator.
If this object is present on the Emulator, it can be notified whenever
the emulated program does a malloc() or free().
The notifications come in via a magic instruction sequence that we
embed in the LibC malloc() and free() functions. The sequence is:
"salc x2, push reg32 x2, pop reg32 x3"
The data about the malloc/free operation is in the three pushes.
We make sure the sequence is harmless when running natively.
Memory accesses on MmapRegion are then audited to see if they fall
inside a known-to-be-freed malloc chunk. If so, we complain loud
and red in the debugger output. :^)
This is very, very cool! :^)
It's also a whole lot slower than before, since now we're auditing
memory accesses against a new set of metadata. This will need to be
optimized (and running in this mode should be opt-in, perhaps even
a separate program, etc.)
Here's the first time we get a taste of better information than the
real hardware can give us: unlike x86 CPUs, we can actually support
write-only memory, so now we do!
While this isn't immediately useful, it's still pretty cool. :^)
This Emulator sub-object will keep track of all active memory regions
and handle memory read/write operations from the CPU.
A memory region is currently represented by a virtual Region object
that can implement arbitrary behavior by overriding read/write ops.
This introduces a new X86 CPU emulator for running SerenityOS userspace
programs in a virtualized interpreter environment.
The main goal is to be able to instrument memory accesses and catch
interesting bugs that are very hard to find otherwise. But before we
can do fancy things like that, we have to build a competent emulator
able to actually run programs.
This initial version is able to run a very small program that makes
some tiny syscalls, but nothing more.