[PATCH] x86, mpx: fix instruction decoder condition

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Nov 30 2015 - 19:31:19 EST



From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

MPX decodes instructions in order to tell which bounds register
was violated. Part of this decoding involves looking at the "REX
prefix" which is a special instrucion prefix used to retrofit
support for new registers in to old instructions.

The X86_REX_*() macros are defined to return actual bit values:

#define X86_REX_R(rex) ((rex) & 4)

*not* boolean values. However, the MPX code was checking for
them like they were booleans. This might have led to us
mis-decoding the "REX prefix" and giving false information out to
userspace about bounds violations. X86_REX_B() actually is bit 1,
so this is really only broken for the X86_REX_X() case.

Fix the conditionals up to tolerate the non-boolean values.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
---

b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff -puN arch/x86/mm/mpx.c~mpx-rex arch/x86/mm/mpx.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c~mpx-rex 2015-11-30 15:33:32.393469377 -0800
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/mpx.c 2015-11-30 16:12:14.805379908 -0800
@@ -101,19 +101,19 @@ static int get_reg_offset(struct insn *i
switch (type) {
case REG_TYPE_RM:
regno = X86_MODRM_RM(insn->modrm.value);
- if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+ if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value))
regno += 8;
break;

case REG_TYPE_INDEX:
regno = X86_SIB_INDEX(insn->sib.value);
- if (X86_REX_X(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+ if (X86_REX_X(insn->rex_prefix.value))
regno += 8;
break;

case REG_TYPE_BASE:
regno = X86_SIB_BASE(insn->sib.value);
- if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value) == 1)
+ if (X86_REX_B(insn->rex_prefix.value))
regno += 8;
break;

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