subprojects: Prepare for release

The Vala README only mentions autotools instructions, and when Vala is
compiled that way the -frida suffix is not added to the version string,
and the frida-core check for Vala fails.

Therefore, clarify that Vala needs to be built from source with Meson.

lib/agent/agent.vala

@@ -1400,12 +1400,12 @@ namespace Frida.Agent {
 				if (nb_api.unload_library == null)
 					parameters.append ("|eternal|sticky");
 				/*
-				 * Disable ExitMonitor to work around a bug in Android's libndk_translation.so on Android 11.
-				 * We need to avoid modifying libc.so ranges that the translator potentially depends on, to
-				 * avoid blowing up when Interceptor's CPU cache flush results in the translated code being
-				 * discarded, which seems like an edge-case the translator doesn't handle.
+				 * Disable Exceptor and ExitMonitor to work around a bug in Android's libndk_translation.so
+				 * on Android 11. We need to avoid modifying libc.so ranges that the translator potentially
+				 * depends on, to avoid blowing up when Interceptor's CPU cache flush results in the translated
+				 * code being discarded, which seems like an edge-case the translator doesn't handle.
 				 */
-				parameters.append ("|exit-monitor:off");
+				parameters.append ("|exceptor:off|exit-monitor:off");
 
 				emulated_bridge_state = new BridgeState (parameters.str);
 

lib/base/buffer.vala

@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ namespace Frida {
 
 		public string read_fixed_string (size_t offset, size_t size) throws Error {
 			string * start = (string *) get_pointer (offset, size);
-			size_t max_length = size - offset;
+			size_t max_length = size_t.min (size, this.size - offset);
 			string * end = memchr (start, 0, max_length);
 			size_t n;
 			if (end != null)

meson.build

@@ -12,9 +12,11 @@ if not meson.get_compiler('vala').version().endswith('-frida')
   error('''Incompatible Vala compiler detected.
 
 Frida currently relies on features not yet upstream. Grab the Frida-optimized
-Vala compiler from:
+Vala sources from:
 
-    https://github.com/frida/vala''')
+    https://github.com/frida/vala
+
+and compile them with Meson.''')
 endif
 
 c_languages = ['c', 'cpp']
@@ -269,12 +271,14 @@ if host_os == 'linux'
 #endif
 '''
   if cc.compiles(glibc_src, name: 'compiling for glibc')
-    cdata.set('HAVE_GLIBC', 1)
+    libc = 'glibc'
   elif cc.compiles(uclibc_src, name: 'compiling for uClibc')
-    cdata.set('HAVE_UCLIBC', 1)
+    libc = 'uclibc'
   else
-    cdata.set('HAVE_MUSL', 1)
+    libc = 'musl'
   endif
+  cdata.set('HAVE_' + libc.to_upper(), 1)
+  vala_flags += '--define=' + libc.to_upper()
 endif
 
 if get_option('b_sanitize') == 'address'

subprojects/frida-gum.wrap

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [wrap-git]
 url = https://github.com/frida/frida-gum.git
-revision = 17.2.4
+revision = 17.2.8
 depth = 1
 
 [provide]