This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/sclp: clear upper register halves in _sclp_print_early to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-sclp-clear-upper-register-halves-in-_sclp_print_early.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f9c87a6f46d508eae0d9ae640be98d50f237f827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:58:19 +0200 Subject: s390/sclp: clear upper register halves in _sclp_print_early From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f9c87a6f46d508eae0d9ae640be98d50f237f827 upstream. If the kernel is compiled with gcc 5.1 and the XZ compression option the decompress_kernel function calls _sclp_print_early in 64-bit mode while the content of the upper register half of %r6 is non-zero. This causes a specification exception on the servc instruction in _sclp_servc. The _sclp_print_early function saves and restores the upper registers halves but it fails to clear them for the 31-bit code of the mini sclp driver. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/sclp.S @@ -270,6 +270,8 @@ ENTRY(_sclp_print_early) jno .Lesa2 ahi %r15,-80 stmh %r6,%r15,96(%r15) # store upper register halves + basr %r13,0 + lmh %r0,%r15,.Lzeroes-.(%r13) # clear upper register halves .Lesa2: lr %r10,%r2 # save string pointer lhi %r2,0 @@ -291,6 +293,8 @@ ENTRY(_sclp_print_early) .Lesa3: lm %r6,%r15,120(%r15) # restore registers br %r14 +.Lzeroes: + .fill 64,4,0 .LwritedataS4: .long 0x00760005 # SCLP command for write data Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/s390-cachinfo-add-missing-facility-check-to-init_cache_level.patch queue-4.1/s390-process-fix-sfpc-inline-assembly.patch queue-4.1/s390-sclp-clear-upper-register-halves-in-_sclp_print_early.patch queue-4.1/s390-nmi-fix-vector-register-corruption.patch queue-4.1/s390-bpf-clear-correct-bpf-accumulator-register.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html