Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment selector

From	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get segment selector
Date	2017-06-19 17:40 +0200
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:37:51AM -0700, Ricardo Neri wrote:
> Wouldn't this be ending up mixing the actual segment register and
> segment register overrides? I plan to have a function that parses the
> segment override prefixes and returns SEG_REG_CS/DS/ES/FS/GS or
> SEG_REG_IGNORE for long mode or SEG_REG_DEFAULT when the default segment
> register needs to be used. A separate function will determine what such
> default segment register is. Does this make sense?

Yes.

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Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get  segment selector Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-15 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get  segment selector Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> - 2017-06-15 21:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get  segment selector Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-06-19 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v7 10/26] x86/insn-eval: Add utility functions to get  segment selector Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> - 2017-06-19 17:40 +0200

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