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 6ba48ff4, 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: 6ba48ff4 ("x86: Remove arbitrary instruction size limit ... Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f8f0bc9b8c58cfd6830f7d88400bf1396cbdcd0f.1422403511.git.luto@amacapital.netSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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