Re: [v6 PATCH 09/21] x86/insn-eval: Add functions to get default operand and address sizes

Ricardo Neri
2017-04-27T01:07:40Z

On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 15:06 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 04:32:42PM -0800, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> > These functions read the default values of the address and operand sizes
> > as specified in the segment descriptor. This information is determined
> > from the D and L bits. Hence, it can be used for both IA-32e 64-bit and
> > 32-bit legacy modes. For virtual-8086 mode, the default address and
> > operand sizes are always 2 bytes.
>
> Yeah, we tend to call that customarily 16-bit :)

I will call it like this.
>
> > The D bit is only meaningful for code segments. Thus, these functions
> > always use the code segment selector contained in regs.
> >
> > Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> > Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> > Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> > Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> > Cc: x86@kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h | 2 +
> > arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
> > index b201742..a0d81fc 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h
> > @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ void __user *insn_get_addr_ref(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
> > int insn_get_reg_offset_modrm_rm(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
> > int insn_get_reg_offset_sib_base(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
> > int insn_get_reg_offset_sib_base(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs);
> > +unsigned char insn_get_seg_default_address_bytes(struct pt_regs *regs);
> > +unsigned char insn_get_seg_default_operand_bytes(struct pt_regs *regs);
> > unsigned long insn_get_seg_base(struct pt_regs *regs, struct insn *insn,
> > int regoff, bool use_default_seg);
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > index 383ca83..cda6c71 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > @@ -421,6 +421,86 @@ unsigned long insn_get_seg_base(struct pt_regs *regs, struct insn *insn,
> > }
> >
> > /**
> > + * insn_get_seg_default_address_bytes - Obtain default address size of segment
> > + * @regs: Set of registers containing the segment selector
> > + *
> > + * Obtain the default address size as indicated in the segment descriptor
> > + * selected in regs' code segment selector. In protected mode, the default
> > + * address is determined by inspecting the L and D bits of the segment
> > + * descriptor. In virtual-8086 mode, the default is always two bytes.
> > + *
> > + * Return: Default address size of segment
>
> 0 on error.
>
> > + */
> > +unsigned char insn_get_seg_default_address_bytes(struct pt_regs *regs)
> > +{
> > + struct desc_struct *desc;
> > + unsigned short seg;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + if (v8086_mode(regs))
> > + return 2;
> > +
> > + seg = (unsigned short)regs->cs;
> > +
> > + ret = get_desc(seg, &desc);
> > + if (ret)
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > + switch ((desc->l << 1) | desc->d) {
> > + case 0: /* Legacy mode. 16-bit addresses. CS.L=0, CS.D=0 */
> > + return 2;
> > + case 1: /* Legacy mode. 32-bit addresses. CS.L=0, CS.D=1 */
> > + return 4;
> > + case 2: /* IA-32e 64-bit mode. 64-bit addresses. CS.L=1, CS.D=0 */
> > + return 8;
> > + case 3: /* Invalid setting. CS.L=1, CS.D=1 */
> > + /* fall through */
> > + default:
> > + return 0;
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * insn_get_seg_default_operand_bytes - Obtain default operand size of segment
> > + * @regs: Set of registers containing the segment selector
> > + *
> > + * Obtain the default operand size as indicated in the segment descriptor
> > + * selected in regs' code segment selector. In protected mode, the default
> > + * operand size is determined by inspecting the L and D bits of the segment
> > + * descriptor. In virtual-8086 mode, the default is always two bytes.
> > + *
> > + * Return: Default operand size of segment
> > + */
> > +unsigned char insn_get_seg_default_operand_bytes(struct pt_regs *regs)
>
> Right, so default address and operand size always go together so I don't
> think you need two separate functions.
>
> So what I'd suggest - provided this pans out (I still haven't reviewed
> the whole thing) - is to determine the operating mode of the segment:
> long, legacy, etc and then return both address and operand sizes. Patch
> 17/21 needs them both at the same time AFAICT.

It makes sense to me. So far these two functions are used in the same
place.

Thanks and BR,
Ricardo