linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 18/18] x86/insn-eval: Incorporate segment base in linear address computation

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Message-ID: <20171101175642.ep7ijnvzi6o37u5w@pd.tnic>
Date:   Wed, 1 Nov 2017 18:56:42 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Chen Yucong <slaoub@...il.com>,
        "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        x86@...nel.org, ricardo.neri@...el.com,
        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>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 18/18] x86/insn-eval: Incorporate segment base in
 linear address computation

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.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@...il.com>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@...el.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>
> Cc: x86@...nel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>

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