1 /* Target memory searching
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5 This file is part of GDB.
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21 #include "gdbsupport/search.h"
22 #include "gdbsupport/byte-vector.h"
24 /* This implements a basic search of memory, reading target memory and
25 performing the search here (as opposed to performing the search in on the
26 target side with, for example, gdbserver). */
30 (gdb::function_view
<target_read_memory_ftype
> read_memory
,
31 CORE_ADDR start_addr
, ULONGEST search_space_len
,
32 const gdb_byte
*pattern
, ULONGEST pattern_len
,
33 CORE_ADDR
*found_addrp
)
35 const unsigned chunk_size
= SEARCH_CHUNK_SIZE
;
36 /* Buffer to hold memory contents for searching. */
37 unsigned search_buf_size
;
39 search_buf_size
= chunk_size
+ pattern_len
- 1;
41 /* No point in trying to allocate a buffer larger than the search space. */
42 if (search_space_len
< search_buf_size
)
43 search_buf_size
= search_space_len
;
45 gdb::byte_vector
search_buf (search_buf_size
);
47 /* Prime the search buffer. */
49 if (!read_memory (start_addr
, search_buf
.data (), search_buf_size
))
51 warning (_("Unable to access %s bytes of target "
52 "memory at %s, halting search."),
53 pulongest (search_buf_size
), hex_string (start_addr
));
57 /* Perform the search.
59 The loop is kept simple by allocating [N + pattern-length - 1] bytes.
60 When we've scanned N bytes we copy the trailing bytes to the start and
61 read in another N bytes. */
63 while (search_space_len
>= pattern_len
)
66 unsigned nr_search_bytes
67 = std::min (search_space_len
, (ULONGEST
) search_buf_size
);
69 found_ptr
= (gdb_byte
*) memmem (search_buf
.data (), nr_search_bytes
,
70 pattern
, pattern_len
);
72 if (found_ptr
!= NULL
)
74 CORE_ADDR found_addr
= start_addr
+ (found_ptr
- search_buf
.data ());
76 *found_addrp
= found_addr
;
80 /* Not found in this chunk, skip to next chunk. */
82 /* Don't let search_space_len wrap here, it's unsigned. */
83 if (search_space_len
>= chunk_size
)
84 search_space_len
-= chunk_size
;
88 if (search_space_len
>= pattern_len
)
90 unsigned keep_len
= search_buf_size
- chunk_size
;
91 CORE_ADDR read_addr
= start_addr
+ chunk_size
+ keep_len
;
94 /* Copy the trailing part of the previous iteration to the front
95 of the buffer for the next iteration. */
96 gdb_assert (keep_len
== pattern_len
- 1);
98 memcpy (&search_buf
[0], &search_buf
[chunk_size
], keep_len
);
100 nr_to_read
= std::min (search_space_len
- keep_len
,
101 (ULONGEST
) chunk_size
);
103 if (!read_memory (read_addr
, &search_buf
[keep_len
], nr_to_read
))
105 warning (_("Unable to access %s bytes of target "
106 "memory at %s, halting search."),
107 plongest (nr_to_read
),
108 hex_string (read_addr
));
112 start_addr
+= chunk_size
;