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1 /* String reading
2 
3    Copyright (C) 2022-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 
5    This file is part of GDB.
6 
7    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
10    (at your option) any later version.
11 
12    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
15    GNU General Public License for more details.
16 
17    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
18    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
19 
20 #include "gdbsupport/common-defs.h"
21 #include "target/target.h"
22 
23 /* Read LEN bytes of target memory at address MEMADDR, placing the
24    results in GDB's memory at MYADDR.  Returns a count of the bytes
25    actually read, and optionally a target_xfer_status value in the
26    location pointed to by ERRPTR if ERRPTR is non-null.  */
27 
28 static int
29 partial_memory_read (CORE_ADDR memaddr, gdb_byte *myaddr,
30 		     int len, int *errptr)
31 {
32   int nread;			/* Number of bytes actually read.  */
33   int errcode;			/* Error from last read.  */
34 
35   /* First try a complete read.  */
36   errcode = target_read_memory (memaddr, myaddr, len);
37   if (errcode == 0)
38     {
39       /* Got it all.  */
40       nread = len;
41     }
42   else
43     {
44       /* Loop, reading one byte at a time until we get as much as we can.  */
45       for (errcode = 0, nread = 0; len > 0 && errcode == 0; nread++, len--)
46 	{
47 	  errcode = target_read_memory (memaddr++, myaddr++, 1);
48 	}
49       /* If an error, the last read was unsuccessful, so adjust count.  */
50       if (errcode != 0)
51 	{
52 	  nread--;
53 	}
54     }
55   if (errptr != NULL)
56     {
57       *errptr = errcode;
58     }
59   return (nread);
60 }
61 
62 /* See target/target.h.  */
63 
64 int
65 target_read_string (CORE_ADDR addr, int len, int width,
66 		    unsigned int fetchlimit,
67 		    gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<gdb_byte> *buffer,
68 		    int *bytes_read)
69 {
70   int errcode;			/* Errno returned from bad reads.  */
71   unsigned int nfetch;		/* Chars to fetch / chars fetched.  */
72   gdb_byte *bufptr;		/* Pointer to next available byte in
73 				   buffer.  */
74 
75   /* Loop until we either have all the characters, or we encounter
76      some error, such as bumping into the end of the address space.  */
77 
78   buffer->reset (nullptr);
79 
80   if (len > 0)
81     {
82       /* We want fetchlimit chars, so we might as well read them all in
83 	 one operation.  */
84       unsigned int fetchlen = std::min ((unsigned) len, fetchlimit);
85 
86       buffer->reset ((gdb_byte *) xmalloc (fetchlen * width));
87       bufptr = buffer->get ();
88 
89       nfetch = partial_memory_read (addr, bufptr, fetchlen * width, &errcode)
90 	/ width;
91       addr += nfetch * width;
92       bufptr += nfetch * width;
93     }
94   else if (len == -1)
95     {
96       unsigned long bufsize = 0;
97       unsigned int chunksize;	/* Size of each fetch, in chars.  */
98       int found_nul;		/* Non-zero if we found the nul char.  */
99       gdb_byte *limit;		/* First location past end of fetch buffer.  */
100 
101       found_nul = 0;
102       /* We are looking for a NUL terminator to end the fetching, so we
103 	 might as well read in blocks that are large enough to be efficient,
104 	 but not so large as to be slow if fetchlimit happens to be large.
105 	 So we choose the minimum of 8 and fetchlimit.  We used to use 200
106 	 instead of 8 but 200 is way too big for remote debugging over a
107 	  serial line.  */
108       chunksize = std::min (8u, fetchlimit);
109 
110       do
111 	{
112 	  nfetch = std::min ((unsigned long) chunksize, fetchlimit - bufsize);
113 
114 	  if (*buffer == NULL)
115 	    buffer->reset ((gdb_byte *) xmalloc (nfetch * width));
116 	  else
117 	    buffer->reset ((gdb_byte *) xrealloc (buffer->release (),
118 						  (nfetch + bufsize) * width));
119 
120 	  bufptr = buffer->get () + bufsize * width;
121 	  bufsize += nfetch;
122 
123 	  /* Read as much as we can.  */
124 	  nfetch = partial_memory_read (addr, bufptr, nfetch * width, &errcode)
125 		    / width;
126 
127 	  /* Scan this chunk for the null character that terminates the string
128 	     to print.  If found, we don't need to fetch any more.  Note
129 	     that bufptr is explicitly left pointing at the next character
130 	     after the null character, or at the next character after the end
131 	     of the buffer.  */
132 
133 	  limit = bufptr + nfetch * width;
134 	  while (bufptr < limit)
135 	    {
136 	      bool found_nonzero = false;
137 
138 	      for (int i = 0; !found_nonzero && i < width; ++i)
139 		if (bufptr[i] != 0)
140 		  found_nonzero = true;
141 
142 	      addr += width;
143 	      bufptr += width;
144 	      if (!found_nonzero)
145 		{
146 		  /* We don't care about any error which happened after
147 		     the NUL terminator.  */
148 		  errcode = 0;
149 		  found_nul = 1;
150 		  break;
151 		}
152 	    }
153 	}
154       while (errcode == 0	/* no error */
155 	     && bufptr - buffer->get () < fetchlimit * width	/* no overrun */
156 	     && !found_nul);	/* haven't found NUL yet */
157     }
158   else
159     {				/* Length of string is really 0!  */
160       /* We always allocate *buffer.  */
161       buffer->reset ((gdb_byte *) xmalloc (1));
162       bufptr = buffer->get ();
163       errcode = 0;
164     }
165 
166   /* bufptr and addr now point immediately beyond the last byte which we
167      consider part of the string (including a '\0' which ends the string).  */
168   *bytes_read = bufptr - buffer->get ();
169 
170   return errcode;
171 }
172 
173 /* See target/target.h.  */
174 
175 gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
176 target_read_string (CORE_ADDR memaddr, int len, int *bytes_read)
177 {
178   gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<gdb_byte> buffer;
179 
180   int ignore;
181   if (bytes_read == nullptr)
182     bytes_read = &ignore;
183 
184   /* Note that the endian-ness does not matter here.  */
185   int errcode = target_read_string (memaddr, -1, 1, len, &buffer, bytes_read);
186   if (errcode != 0)
187     return {};
188 
189   return gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> ((char *) buffer.release ());
190 }
191