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Re: [PATCH v8 10/28] x86/insn-eval: Add a utility function to get register offsets

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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.hansen@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com>
> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@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 <bp@suse.de>

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    Boris.

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