On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 01:25:45PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> 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 to use depends on the register used as
> operand and segment override prefixes, if any.
>
> In most cases, the segment base address will be 0 if the USER_DS/USER32_DS
> segment is used or if segmentation is not used. However, the base address
> is not necessarily zero if a user programs defines its own segments. This
> is possible by using a local descriptor table.
>
> Since the effective address is a signed quantity, the unsigned segment
> base address is saved in a separate variable and added to the final,
> unsigned, effective address.
>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbin...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoa...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei....@intel.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgar...@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com>
> Cc: x...@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calde...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 55
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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