linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:55:09 +0000
From:	"Ren, Qiaowei" <qiaowei.ren@...el.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound
 violation information

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Borislav Petkov [mailto:bp@...en8.de]
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 6:43 PM
> To: Ren, Qiaowei
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin; Thomas Gleixner; Ingo Molnar; x86@...nel.org;
> linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include bound
> violation information
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 04:22:27PM +0800, Ren Qiaowei wrote:
> > >I tried to use generic structure and macro, but many members of
> > >generic struct insn are not used for MPX,
> 
> I think that's ok - there are a lot of examples in the kernel where only a subset
> of the struct members are used by a particular functionality.
> 
> > Because only struct insn_field and several macros may be replaced with
> > generic version, I guess it maybe be confused easily to include
> > generic insn header. What do you think about it?
> 
> Yes, I think the idea is to use and, if needed, extend the generic functionality
> instead of growing our own here and there for obvious benefits.
> 
Yes, I once tried to use and extend the generic functionality to implement the decoding, but I noticed it didn't work out well for this specific MPX case. Anyway, I will try to use generic version more.

Thanks,
Qiaowei