insn_get_addr_ref returns the effective address as defined by the
section 3.7.5.1 Vol 1 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software
Developer's Manual. In order to compute the linear address, we must add
to the effective address the segment base address as set in the segment
descriptor.
The segment descriptor contains information that is relevant to how linear
address need to be computed. It contains the default size of addresses as
well as the base address of the segment. Thus, given a segment selector,
we ought look at segment descriptor to correctly calculate the linear
These functions read the default values of the address and operand sizes
as specified in the segment descriptor. This information is determined
from the D and L bits. Hence, it can be used for both IA-32e 64-bit and
32-bit legacy modes. For virtual-8086 mode, the default address and
operand sizes
Certain user space programs that run on virtual-8086 mode may utilize
instructions protected by the User-Mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP)
security feature present in new Intel processors: SGDT, SIDT and SMSW. In
such a case, a general protection fault is issued if UMIP is enabled. When
such a
Section 2.2.1.2 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software
Developer's Manual volume 2A states that when a SIB byte is used and the
base of the SIB byte points to R/EBP (i.e., base = 5) and the mod part
of the ModRM byte is zero, the value of such register will not be used
as part of the
Up to this point, only fault.c used the definitions of the page fault error
codes. Thus, it made sense to keep them within such file. Other portions of
code might be interested in those definitions too. For instance, the User-
Mode Instruction Prevention emulation code will use such definitions to
The function insn_get_reg_offset takes as argument an enumeration that
indicates the type of offset that is returned: the R/M part of the ModRM
byte, the index of the SIB byte or the base of the SIB byte. Callers of
this function would need the definition of such enumeration. This is not
needed.
fixup_umip_exception will be called from do_general_protection. If the
former returns false, the latter will issue a SIGSEGV with SEND_SIG_PRIV.
However, when emulation is successful but the emulated result cannot be
copied to user space memory, it is more accurate to issue a SIGSEGV with
With segmentation, the base address of the segment descriptor is needed
to compute a linear address. The segment descriptor used in the address
computation depends on either any segment override prefixes in the in the
instruction or the default segment determined by the registers involved
in the
Section 2.2.1.3 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software
Developer's Manual volume 2A states that when the mod part of the ModRM
byte is zero and R/EBP is specified in the R/M part of such bit, the value
of the aforementioned register should not be used in the address
computation. Instead,
The feature User-Mode Instruction Prevention present in recent Intel
processor prevents a group of instructions from being executed with
CPL > 0. Otherwise, a general protection fault is issued.
Rather than relaying this fault to the user space (in the form of a SIGSEGV
signal), the instructions
Convert the function insn_get_add_ref into a wrapper function that calls
the correct static address-decoding function depending on the size of the
address. In this way, callers do not need to worry about calling the
correct function and decreases the number of functions that need to be
exposed.
The 32-bit and 64-bit address encodings are identical. This means that we
can use the same function in both cases. In order to reuse the function for
32-bit address encodings, we must sign-extend our 32-bit signed operands to
64-bit signed variables (only for 64-bit builds). To decide on whether
Tasks running in virtual-8086 mode or in protected mode with code
segment descriptors that specify 16-bit default address sizes via the
D bit will use 16-bit addressing form encodings as described in the Intel
64 and IA-32 Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 2A Section
2.1.5. 16-bit
User_mode Instruction Prevention (UMIP) is enabled by setting/clearing a
bit in %cr4.
It makes sense to enable UMIP at some point while booting, before user
spaces come up. Like SMAP and SMEP, is not critical to have it enabled
very early during boot. This is because UMIP is relevant only when
Section 2.2.1.2 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software
Developer's Manual volume 2A states that when memory addressing is used
(i.e., mod part of ModR/M is not 3), a SIB byte is used and the index of
the SIB byte points to the R/ESP (i.e., index = 4), the index should not be
used in the
If the User-Mode Instruction Prevention CPU feature is available and
enabled, a general protection fault will be issued if the instructions
sgdt, sldt, sidt, str or smsw are executed from user-mode context
(CPL > 0). If the fault was caused by any of the instructions protected
by UMIP,
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