Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:35:14 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v8 10/28] x86/insn-eval: Add a utility function to get register offsets |
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 05:27:51PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote: > The function get_reg_offset() returns the offset to the register the > argument specifies as indicated in an enumeration of type offset. Callers > of this function would need the definition of such enumeration. This is > not needed. Instead, add helper functions for this purpose. These functions > are useful in cases when, for instance, the caller needs to decide whether > the operand is a register or a memory location by looking at the rm part > of the ModRM byte. As of now, this is the only helper function that is > needed. > > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> > Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> > Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> > Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> > Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> > Cc: x86@kernel.org > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> > --- > arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h | 1 + > arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ > 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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