In the SSE decode function gen_sse(), we combine a byte
'b' and a value 'b1' which can be [0..3], and switch on them:
b |= (b1 << 8);
switch (b) {
...
default:
unknown_op:
gen_unknown_opcode(env, s);
return;
}
In three cases inside this switch, we were then also checking for
"if (b1 >= 2) { goto unknown_op; }".
However, this can never happen, because the 'case' values in each place
are 0x0nn or 0x1nn and the switch will have directed the b1 == (2, 3)
cases to the default already.
This check was added in commit c045af25a52e9 in 2010; the added code
was unnecessary then as well, and was apparently intended only to
ensure that we never accidentally ended up indexing off the end
of an sse_op_table with only 2 entries as a result of future bugs
in the decode logic.
Change the checks to assert() instead, and make sure they're always
immediately before the array access they are protecting.
Fixes: Coverity CID 1460207
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell<peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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v1->v2: use assert() rather than just deleting the if()s