x86/insn-eval: Add utility function to identify string instructions
String instructions are special because, in protected mode, the linear address is always obtained via the ES segment register in operands that use the (E)DI register; the DS segment register in operands that use the (E)SI register. Furthermore, segment override prefixes are ignored when calculating a linear address involving the (E)DI register; segment override prefixes can be used when calculating linear addresses involving the (E)SI register. It follows that linear addresses are calculated differently for the case of string instructions. The purpose of this utility function is to identify such instructions for callers to determine a linear address correctly. Note that this function only identifies string instructions; it does not determine what segment register to use in the address computation. That is left to callers. A subsequent commmit introduces a function to determine the segment register to use given the instruction, operands and segment override prefixes. 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/1509135945-13762-13-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com
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