linux-kernel - Re: [v2 3/7] x86/mpx, x86/insn: Relocate insn util functions to a new insn-utils

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Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2017 08:44:01 -0800
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-msdos@...r.kernel.org, wine-devel@...ehq.org,
        Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@...il.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>,
        Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@...el.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        "Ravi V . Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [v2 3/7] x86/mpx, x86/insn: Relocate insn util functions to a new
 insn-utils

On 12/23/2016 05:37 PM, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Other kernel submodules can benefit from using the utility functions
> defined in mpx.c to obtain the addresses and values of operands contained
> in the general purpose registers. An instance of this is the emulation code
> used for instructions protected by the Intel User-Mode Instruction
> Prevention feature.

I haven't looked at this in detail, but as long as this is pretty much a
straight code move, I don't see any issues with it from an MPX
perspective.  I'm glad to see it getting reused.

Feel free to add my Acked-by on it if you like.