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Andreas Kling
c314292319 UserspaceEmulator: Catch use-after-frees by tracking malloc/free :^)
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.)
2020-07-15 23:25:20 +02:00
Andreas Kling
9b6464010f UserspaceEmulator: Add basic support for memory-mapped files
MmapRegion now supports using an mmap'ed file descriptor as backing.
2020-07-13 13:50:22 +02:00
Andreas Kling
f6ad5edab0 UserspaceEmulator: Make mmap'ed memory track read/write protection
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. :^)
2020-07-13 13:50:22 +02:00