On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:54:20PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Section 2.2.1.3 of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software
> Developer's Manual volume 2A states that when ModRM.mod is zero and
> ModRM.rm is 101b, a 32-bit displacement follows the ModRM byte. This means
> that none of the registers are used in the computation of the effective
> address. A return value of -EDOM indicates callers that they should not
> use the value of registers when computing the effective address for the
> instruction.
>
> In long mode, the effective address is given by the 32-bit displacement
> plus the location of the next instruction. In protected mode, only the
> displacement is used.
>
> The instruction decoder takes care of obtaining the displacement.
>
> 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/lib/insn-eval.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
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