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| author | Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> | 2015-01-27 16:06:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-02-19 00:01:24 +0100 |
| commit | 91e5ed49fca09c2b83b262b9757d1376ee2b46c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 494a1ca21a9743ec5d13b918938cc99d4ede7115 /arch/x86/lib | |
| parent | cbb53b9623a70f012e1fdfb6fc0af6878df4762b (diff) | |
| download | linux-91e5ed49fca09c2b83b262b9757d1376ee2b46c3.tar.bz2 | |
x86/asm/decoder: Fix and enforce max instruction size in the insn decoder
x86 instructions cannot exceed 15 bytes, and the instruction
decoder should enforce that. Prior to 6ba48ff46f76, the
instruction length limit was implicitly set to 16, which was an
approximation of 15, but there is currently no limit at all.
Fix MAX_INSN_SIZE (it should be 15, not 16), and fix the decoder
to reject instructions that exceed MAX_INSN_SIZE.
Other than potentially confusing some of the decoder sanity
checks, I'm not aware of any actual problems that omitting this
check would cause, nor am I aware of any practical problems
caused by the MAX_INSN_SIZE error.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 6ba48ff46f76 ("x86: Remove arbitrary instruction size limit ...
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f8f0bc9b8c58cfd6830f7d88400bf1396cbdcd0f.1422403511.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/lib/insn.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c index 5ea00ddc1825..8f72b334aea0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c @@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ */ void insn_init(struct insn *insn, const void *kaddr, int buf_len, int x86_64) { + /* + * Instructions longer than MAX_INSN_SIZE (15 bytes) are invalid + * even if the input buffer is long enough to hold them. + */ + if (buf_len > MAX_INSN_SIZE) + buf_len = MAX_INSN_SIZE; + memset(insn, 0, sizeof(*insn)); insn->kaddr = kaddr; insn->end_kaddr = kaddr + buf_len; |