1 /* Target memory searching
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20 #include "gdbsupport/common-defs.h"
22 #include "gdbsupport/search.h"
23 #include "gdbsupport/byte-vector.h"
25 /* This implements a basic search of memory, reading target memory and
26 performing the search here (as opposed to performing the search in on the
27 target side with, for example, gdbserver). */
31 (gdb::function_view
<target_read_memory_ftype
> read_memory
,
32 CORE_ADDR start_addr
, ULONGEST search_space_len
,
33 const gdb_byte
*pattern
, ULONGEST pattern_len
,
34 CORE_ADDR
*found_addrp
)
36 const unsigned chunk_size
= SEARCH_CHUNK_SIZE
;
37 /* Buffer to hold memory contents for searching. */
38 unsigned search_buf_size
;
40 search_buf_size
= chunk_size
+ pattern_len
- 1;
42 /* No point in trying to allocate a buffer larger than the search space. */
43 if (search_space_len
< search_buf_size
)
44 search_buf_size
= search_space_len
;
46 gdb::byte_vector
search_buf (search_buf_size
);
48 /* Prime the search buffer. */
50 if (!read_memory (start_addr
, search_buf
.data (), search_buf_size
))
52 warning (_("Unable to access %s bytes of target "
53 "memory at %s, halting search."),
54 pulongest (search_buf_size
), hex_string (start_addr
));
58 /* Perform the search.
60 The loop is kept simple by allocating [N + pattern-length - 1] bytes.
61 When we've scanned N bytes we copy the trailing bytes to the start and
62 read in another N bytes. */
64 while (search_space_len
>= pattern_len
)
67 unsigned nr_search_bytes
68 = std::min (search_space_len
, (ULONGEST
) search_buf_size
);
70 found_ptr
= (gdb_byte
*) memmem (search_buf
.data (), nr_search_bytes
,
71 pattern
, pattern_len
);
73 if (found_ptr
!= NULL
)
75 CORE_ADDR found_addr
= start_addr
+ (found_ptr
- search_buf
.data ());
77 *found_addrp
= found_addr
;
81 /* Not found in this chunk, skip to next chunk. */
83 /* Don't let search_space_len wrap here, it's unsigned. */
84 if (search_space_len
>= chunk_size
)
85 search_space_len
-= chunk_size
;
89 if (search_space_len
>= pattern_len
)
91 unsigned keep_len
= search_buf_size
- chunk_size
;
92 CORE_ADDR read_addr
= start_addr
+ chunk_size
+ keep_len
;
95 /* Copy the trailing part of the previous iteration to the front
96 of the buffer for the next iteration. */
97 gdb_assert (keep_len
== pattern_len
- 1);
99 memcpy (&search_buf
[0], &search_buf
[chunk_size
], keep_len
);
101 nr_to_read
= std::min (search_space_len
- keep_len
,
102 (ULONGEST
) chunk_size
);
104 if (!read_memory (read_addr
, &search_buf
[keep_len
], nr_to_read
))
106 warning (_("Unable to access %s bytes of target "
107 "memory at %s, halting search."),
108 plongest (nr_to_read
),
109 hex_string (read_addr
));
113 start_addr
+= chunk_size
;