[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb] Fix unaligned writes in ObjectFileELF (PR #165759)

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Author: Alex Langford (bulbazord)

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<summary>Changes</summary>

The code to apply relocations was sometimes creating unaligned destination pointers. Instead of giving them an explicit type (i.e. `uint64_t *`) and forcing the compiler to generate unaligned stores, mark the pointer as `void *`. The compiler will figure out the correct series of store instructions.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165759.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp (+4-6) 


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diff --git a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
index 097c91b623e8f..9ad8b2d621876 100644
--- a/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
+++ b/lldb/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp
@@ -2735,9 +2735,8 @@ static void ApplyELF64ABS64Relocation(Symtab *symtab, ELFRelocation &rel,
     // ObjectFileELF creates a WritableDataBuffer in CreateInstance.
     WritableDataBuffer *data_buffer =
         llvm::cast<WritableDataBuffer>(data_buffer_sp.get());
-    uint64_t *dst = reinterpret_cast<uint64_t *>(
-        data_buffer->GetBytes() + rel_section->GetFileOffset() +
-        ELFRelocation::RelocOffset64(rel));
+    void *const dst = data_buffer->GetBytes() + rel_section->GetFileOffset() +
+                      ELFRelocation::RelocOffset64(rel);
     uint64_t val_offset = value + ELFRelocation::RelocAddend64(rel);
     memcpy(dst, &val_offset, sizeof(uint64_t));
   }
@@ -2762,9 +2761,8 @@ static void ApplyELF64ABS32Relocation(Symtab *symtab, ELFRelocation &rel,
     // ObjectFileELF creates a WritableDataBuffer in CreateInstance.
     WritableDataBuffer *data_buffer =
         llvm::cast<WritableDataBuffer>(data_buffer_sp.get());
-    uint32_t *dst = reinterpret_cast<uint32_t *>(
-        data_buffer->GetBytes() + rel_section->GetFileOffset() +
-        ELFRelocation::RelocOffset32(rel));
+    void *const dst = data_buffer->GetBytes() + rel_section->GetFileOffset() +
+                      ELFRelocation::RelocOffset32(rel);
     memcpy(dst, &truncated_addr, sizeof(uint32_t));
   }
 }

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/165759


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