linux-kernel - Re: [v6 PATCH 06/21] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment selector

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Message-ID: <20170430171527.seipp3xnvhs2hlr7@pd.tnic>
Date:   Sun, 30 Apr 2017 19:15:27 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6 PATCH 06/21] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get
 segment selector

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 01:44:43PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> I regard that the role of this function is to obtain the the segment
> selector from either of the prefixes or inferred from the operands. It
> is the role of caller to determine if the segment selector should be
> ignored.

No, this is wrong. The function is called resolve_seg_selector() and it
gives you the segment selector. CS, DS, ES, and SS in 64-bit mode are
treated as null segments and your function should return/signal exactly
that, i.e, saying that those should be ignored in that case.

> I double-checked the latest version of the Intel Software Development
> manual [2], in the table 3-5 in section 3.7.4 mentions that DS is
> default segment for all data references, except string destinations. I
> tested this code with the UMIP-protected instructions and whenever I use
> %edi the default segment is %ds.

Yes, all correct. Except that we're adding a more-or-less generic x86
insn decoder so we should make it so...

> Is this example valid? The documentation of MOVS specifies that it
> always moves DS:(E)SI to ES:(E)DI.

... that the decoder should do exactly that:

	if (MOVS and rDI)
		return SEG_ES;

And you're handing in struct insn * so you can easily check which insn
you're looking at.

Thanks.

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