[PATCH] target/riscv: prevent abrupt abortion on unassigned value write to tdata

Abhigyan Kumar <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:30:28 +0530
Newsgroups org.nongnu.qemu-riscv,org.nongnu.qemu-devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tdata_csr_write is approachable by guest programs. In case of unassigned
values written to a tdata CSR in debug mode, the switch-case falls
through straight to default causing an immediate abort. The risc-v spec
says:

    All tdata registers follow write-any-read-legal semantics. If a debugger
    writes an unsupported configuration, the register will read back a value
    that is supported (which may simply be a disabled trigger). This means
    that a debugger must always read back values it writes to tdata
    registers, unless it already knows what is supported.

This fix correctly ensures that the WARL behaviour of tdata CSRs.

Fixes: a42bd001 ("target/riscv: debug: Determine the trigger type from
tdata1.type")
Signed-off-by: Abhigyan Kumar <[email protected]>
---
 target/riscv/tcg/debug.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/riscv/tcg/debug.c b/target/riscv/tcg/debug.c
index 3c0fe7010..ae493235d 100644
--- a/target/riscv/tcg/debug.c
+++ b/target/riscv/tcg/debug.c
@@ -913,7 +913,8 @@ void tdata_csr_write(CPURISCVState *env, int tdata_index, target_ulong val)
                       trigger_type);
         break;
     default:
-        g_assert_not_reached();
+        qemu_log_mask(LOG_GUEST_ERROR, "trigger type: %d is unassigned\n",
+                trigger_type);
     }
 }
 
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