1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
index 5e69603ff63f..947b7f1a0042 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn-eval.c
@@ -1367,3 +1367,41 @@ void __user *insn_get_addr_ref(struct insn *insn, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		return (void __user *)-1L;
 	}
 }
+
+/**
+ * insn_fetch_from_user() - Copy instruction bytes from user-space memory
+ * @regs:	Structure with register values as seen when entering kernel mode
+ * @buf:	Array to store the fetched instruction
+ *
+ * Gets the linear address of the instruction and copies the instruction bytes
+ * to the buf.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ *
+ * Number of instruction bytes copied.
+ *
+ * 0 if nothing was copied.
+ */
+int insn_fetch_from_user(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned char buf[MAX_INSN_SIZE])
+{
+	unsigned long seg_base = 0;
+	int not_copied;
+
+	/*
+	 * If not in user-space long mode, a custom code segment could be in
+	 * use. This is true in protected mode (if the process defined a local
+	 * descriptor table), or virtual-8086 mode. In most of the cases
+	 * seg_base will be zero as in USER_CS.
+	 */
+	if (!user_64bit_mode(regs)) {
+		seg_base = insn_get_seg_base(regs, INAT_SEG_REG_CS);
+		if (seg_base == -1L)
+			return 0;
+	}
+
+
+	not_copied = copy_from_user(buf, (void __user *)(seg_base + regs->ip),
+				    MAX_INSN_SIZE);
+
+	return MAX_INSN_SIZE - not_copied;
+}