Previously, we would do a simple bounds check before deciding
whether to dump the memory around a register. On 64-bit platforms,
the register's value was required to be less than (4 << 60). However,
after stripping tags on AArch64 as part of r.android.com/1365229, all
pointer values became less than (4 << 60), so the check became useless
for filtering out invalid pointers. As a result, we would attempt to
dump memory for all registers, which for a register not containing
a valid pointer would typically consist of 16 lines of dashes.
One possible fix may be to replace the constant (4 << 60) with the
process's actual address space limit (known as TASK_SIZE inside the
kernel; typically 39 bits on AArch64 and 48 bits on x86_64), but the
kernel provides no API for retrieving a process's TASK_SIZE value. We
could guess it by looking at for example the highest bit set in the
value of getauxval(AT_EXECFN), which points to an address on the stack
which typically is mapped at the end of the address space on program
startup, but at least on AArch64 it is possible to dynamically extend
TASK_SIZE at runtime by providing a hint to mmap(), so this is not
always sufficient.
Instead, it seems best to remove most of the early bounds check, and
simply issue ptrace() calls for each register value, bailing out of
the entire output if none of the calls ended up succeeding. This also
has the nice side effect of avoiding 16 lines of noise per register
whose value looks like a pointer but actually points to unmapped
memory. We still retain part of the bounds check in order to avoid
integer overflow during the dump (including overflows into the tag
part of the address on architectures that support tagging).
Bug: 154272452
Change-Id: I94e4b7124b7735b92fd83a49c80ebded3483cd4e
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