Re: [Qemu-devel] i386 emulation bug: mov reg, [addr]

[Jamie Lokier]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 08:48 PM, Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >I'm experiencing a strange emulation bug with the op-code below. The
> >instruction raises a segfault in the application (running on the guest),
> >however, if I enable KVM to run the exact same application, no segfault is
> >raised.
> >
> >0x0080023b:       8b 04 65 11 22 33 44    mov regEAX, [0x44332211]
> >
> >where "11 22 33 44" is just some address. According to gdb (on a 32bit 
> >little-
> >endian machine), this instruction can be disassembled as a "mov address to
> >reg-eax".
> >   
> 
> This is an odd encoding for this instruction, since there is a shorter 
> one possible (8b 05 11 22 33 44).  So it is possible there is a bug in 
> qemu that has never been triggered because compilers/assemblers don't 
> generate this encoding.
> 
> btw, binutils disassembles this as
> 
>   8b 04 65 11 22 33 44     mov    0x44332211(,%eiz,2),%eax
> 
> I guess %eiz is some mnemonic for a "zero register" so the assembly can 
> be reassembled into a 7-byte instruction later.

That's right.  Gas accepts it if given the undocumented -mindex-reg
flag, apparently.  %eiz / eiz appears to be a Gas-specific invention,
not standard AT&T or Intel syntax.

-- Jamie