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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/insn.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c
index 5ea00ddc1825..8f72b334aea0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c
@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@
*/
void insn_init(struct insn *insn, const void *kaddr, int buf_len, int x86_64)
{
+ /*
+ * Instructions longer than MAX_INSN_SIZE (15 bytes) are invalid
+ * even if the input buffer is long enough to hold them.
+ */
+ if (buf_len > MAX_INSN_SIZE)
+ buf_len = MAX_INSN_SIZE;
+
memset(insn, 0, sizeof(*insn));
insn->kaddr = kaddr;
insn->end_kaddr = kaddr + buf_len;