Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86, mpx: extend siginfo structure to include boundviolation information

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Jan 12 2014 - 12:04:13 EST


On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 08:49:21AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I saw a previous version of the code that did that, and it really
> didn't work out well -- it ended up being more complex and slower.

I suspected as much.

But, we still probably should use the generic struct insn, insn_field,
etc and act on them in mpx.c instead of defining our own mpx_insn,
mpx_insn_field, X86_MODRM_MOD, etc in the header which are more or less
copied from insn.h, right?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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