This fourth part of my series of patches to get rid of unsafe uses of
GetPointer takes care of the "easy" cases in VideoCommon. Three uses of
GetPointer now remain in Dolphin: VertexLoaderManager, TextureInfo, and
the software renderer's TextureSampler.
For some reason Linux is surprisingly slow at closing file descriptors
of event devices. This commit improves GUI startup times on my computer
by about 1.5 seconds.
When writing the software FMA code, I didn't realize that we can't
overwrite d if d is the same register as one of the inputs and
HandleNaNs is going to be called. This fixes that.
It was possible for sAlertMessageLock.notify() to be called before
sAlertMessageLock.wait(), causing Dolphin to deadlock. In particular,
this was guaranteed to happen if displayAlertMsg was called from the UI
thread while the emulation activity is being destroyed, because
runOnUiThread runs the passed-in anonymous function immediately when
called from the UI thread.
By replacing Object.wait/Object.notify with Semaphore.acquire/
Semaphore.release, it no longer matters what order the methods are
called in.
On all platforms, this would result in out of bounds accesses when getting the component sizes (which uses stuff from VertexLoader_Position.h/VertexLoader_TextCoord.h/VertexLoader_Normal.h). On platforms other than x64 and ARM64, this would also be out of bounds accesses when getting function pointers for the non-JIT vertex loader (in VertexLoader_Position.cpp etc.). Usually both of these would get data from other entries in the same multi-dimensional array, but the last few entries would be truly out of bounds. This does mean that an out of bounds function pointer can be called on platforms that don't have a JIT vertex loader, but it is limited to invalid component formats with values 5/6/7 due to the size of the bitfield the formats come from, so it seems unlikely that this could be exploited in practice.
This issue affects a few games; Def Jam: Fight for New York (https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12719) and Fifa Street are known to be affected.
I have not done any hardware testing for this PR specifically, though I *think* I previously determined that at least a value of 5 behaves the same as float (4). That's what I implemented in any case. I did previously determine that both Def Jam: Fight for New York and Fifa Street use an invalid normal format, but don't actually have lighting enabled when that normal vector is used, so it doesn't change rendering in practice.
The color component format also has two invalid values, but VertexLoader_Color.h/.cpp do check for those invalid ones and return a default value instead of doing an out of bounds access.
Admiral H. Curtiss