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authorAndy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>2015-01-27 16:06:02 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-05-06 22:01:39 +0200
commit30d7277d02c5073cd9e834b812ff996be202be00 (patch)
tree4b493859a3dbe5e9536ecd24d17a8e9af18d073d /arch
parente637b3ecb86017b9b52fb672038709e141043535 (diff)
x86/asm/decoder: Fix and enforce max instruction size in the insn decoder
commit 91e5ed49fca09c2b83b262b9757d1376ee2b46c3 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/insn.c7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h
index 47f29b1d1846..e7814b74caf8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ struct insn {
const insn_byte_t *next_byte;
};
-#define MAX_INSN_SIZE 16
+#define MAX_INSN_SIZE 15
#define X86_MODRM_MOD(modrm) (((modrm) & 0xc0) >> 6)
#define X86_MODRM_REG(modrm) (((modrm) & 0x38) >> 3)
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c
index 1313ae6b478b..85994f5d48e4 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;