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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/3] x86/insn-eval: Introduce insn_decode_mmio()
On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 05:53:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 06:33:32PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > index fbaa3fa24bde..2ab29d8d6731 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
> > @@ -1559,3 +1559,85 @@ bool insn_decode_from_regs(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs,
> >
> > return true;
> > }
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * insn_decode_mmio() - Decode a MMIO instruction
> > + * @insn: Structure to store decoded instruction
> > + * @bytes: Returns size of memory operand
> > + *
> > + * Decodes instruction that used for Memory-mapped I/O.
> > + *
> > + * Returns:
> > + *
> > + * Type of the instruction. Size of the memory operand is stored in
> > + * @bytes. If decode failed, MMIO_DECODE_FAILED returned.
> > + */
> > +enum mmio_type insn_decode_mmio(struct insn *insn, int *bytes)
> > +{
> > + int type = MMIO_DECODE_FAILED;
> > +
> > + *bytes = 0;
> > +
> > + insn_get_opcode(insn);
>
> insn_get_opcode() can fail. Either you assume it's already called and
> don't call it, or you can't assume anything and get to do error
> handling.

Fair enough. I will return MMIO_DECODE_FAILED if insn_get_opcode() fails.

BTW, looks like is_string_insn() suffers from the same issue. Not sure how
to fix it though.

--
Kirill A. Shutemov

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