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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.net

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>