Could unwind landing pads increment the stack?

Matthew Malcomson Matthew.Malcomson@arm.com
Tue Nov 19 17:13:00 GMT 2019


Hello,

I'm looking into how the unwind mechanism works in order to gather 
information to inform how we should eventually handle exceptions in MTE.

I'm currently having a discussion on the llvm-dev list about how HWASAN 
handles exceptions, and believe it has relevence.
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-November/136807.html

In the above email Peter brings up two hypothetical cases where an 
unwind landing pad increments the stack pointer before calling 
_Unwind_Resume.

I have not found anything in the relevant ABI documents that discounts 
this possibility, but I am wondering if it happens in practice.
(if this does happen in practice, then there would be extra work if the 
ABI were strengthened to ban this on MTE tagged functions).

Does anyone know if GCC could emit such a landing pad?

Cheers,
MM


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