x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to identify string instructions
authorRicardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:25:39 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 20:50:11 +0000 (21:50 +0100)
commit536b815388f7f4d2a7cd1418939902fb037ea370
tree97891581ae044a8987bd309bc4baff6739976c68
parente5e45f11110191740ecb365fa8c7a25814ce8ac8
x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to identify string instructions

String instructions are special because, in protected mode, the linear
address is always obtained via the ES segment register in operands that
use the (E)DI register; the DS segment register in operands that use
the (E)SI register. Furthermore, segment override prefixes are ignored
when calculating a linear address involving the (E)DI register; segment
override prefixes can be used when calculating linear addresses involving
the (E)SI register.

It follows that linear addresses are calculated differently for the case of
string instructions. The purpose of this utility function is to identify
such instructions for callers to determine a linear address correctly.

Note that this function only identifies string instructions; it does not
determine what segment register to use in the address computation. That is
left to callers. A subsequent commmit introduces a function to determine
the segment register to use given the instruction, operands and
segment override prefixes.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: ricardo.neri@intel.com
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509135945-13762-13-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c