Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register type

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register type
Date	2017-06-06 14:00 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 11:06:58PM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> I agree that insn-eval reads somewhat funny. I did not want to go with
> insn-dec.c as insn.c, in my opinion, already decodes the instruction
> (i.e., it finds prefixes, opcodes, ModRM, SIB and displacement bytes).
> In insn-eval.c I simply take those decoded parameters and evaluate them
> to obtain the values they contain (e.g., a specific memory location).
> Perhaps, insn-resolve.c could be a better name? Or maybe isnn-operands?

So actually I'm gravitating towards calling all that instruction
"massaging" code with a single prefix to denote this comes from the insn
decoder/handler/whatever...

I.e.,

	"insn-decoder: x86: invalid register type"

or

	"inat: x86: invalid register type"

or something to that effect.

I mean, If we're going to grow our own - as we do, apparently - maybe it
all should be a separate entity with its proper name.

Hmm.

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    Boris.

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Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register  type Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-05-29 18:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register  type Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-06 08:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register  type Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-06-06 14:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register  type Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-07 02:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v7 07/26] x86/insn-eval: Do not BUG on invalid register  type Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-06-07 14:30 +0200

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