On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 05:27:51PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> The function get_reg_offset() returns the offset to the register the
> argument specifies as indicated in an enumeration of type offset. Callers
> of this function would need the definition of such enumeration. This is
> not needed. Instead, add helper functions for this purpose. These functions
> are useful in cases when, for instance, the caller needs to decide whether
> the operand is a register or a memory location by looking at the rm part
> of the ModRM byte. As of now, this is the only helper function that is
> needed.
>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbin...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.k...@canonical.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoa...@gmail.com>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei....@intel.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgar...@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyu...@google.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shan...@intel.com>
> Cc: x...@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calde...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/insn-eval.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284
(AG Nürnberg)
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