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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Adrian Hunter <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Huang Rui <[email protected]>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Shuah Khan <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Ravi V. Shankar" <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Yucong <[email protected]>
Cc: Adam Buchbinder <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509135945-13762-13-git-send-email-ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com

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