x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to get segment descriptor
The segment descriptor contains information that is relevant to how linear addresses need to be computed. It contains the default size of addresses as well as the base address of the segment. Thus, given a segment selector, we ought to look at segment descriptor to correctly calculate the linear address. In protected mode, the segment selector might indicate a segment descriptor from either the global descriptor table or a local descriptor table. Both cases are considered in this function. This function is a prerequisite for functions in subsequent commits that will obtain the aforementioned attributes of the segment descriptor. Improvements-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: ricardo.neri@intel.com Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509135945-13762-15-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment