This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions
to the 3.12-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-fix-kernel-crash-due-to-linkage-stack-instructions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8d7f6690cedb83456edd41c9bd583783f0703bf0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:37:15 +0100
Subject: s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 8d7f6690cedb83456edd41c9bd583783f0703bf0 upstream.
The kernel currently crashes with a low-address-protection exception
if a user space process executes an instruction that tries to use the
linkage stack. Set the base-ASTE origin and the subspace-ASTE origin
of the dispatchable-unit-control-table to point to a dummy ASTE.
Set up control register 15 to point to an empty linkage stack with no
room left.
A user space process with a linkage stack instruction will still crash
but with a different exception which is correctly translated to a
segmentation fault instead of a kernel oops.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/s390/kernel/head64.S | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/head64.S
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ ENTRY(startup_continue)
.quad 0 # cr12: tracing off
.quad 0 # cr13: home space segment table
.quad 0xc0000000 # cr14: machine check handling off
- .quad 0 # cr15: linkage stack operations
+ .quad .Llinkage_stack # cr15: linkage stack operations
.Lpcmsk:.quad 0x0000000180000000
.L4malign:.quad 0xffffffffffc00000
.Lscan2g:.quad 0x80000000 + 0x20000 - 8 # 2GB + 128K - 8
@@ -67,12 +67,15 @@ ENTRY(startup_continue)
.Lparmaddr:
.quad PARMAREA
.align 64
-.Lduct: .long 0,0,0,0,.Lduald,0,0,0
+.Lduct: .long 0,.Laste,.Laste,0,.Lduald,0,0,0
.long 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
+.Laste: .quad 0,0xffffffffffffffff,0,0,0,0,0,0
.align 128
.Lduald:.rept 8
.long 0x80000000,0,0,0 # invalid access-list entries
.endr
+.Llinkage_stack:
+ .long 0,0,0x89000000,0,0,0,0x8a000000,0
ENTRY(_ehead)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/s390-fix-kernel-crash-due-to-linkage-stack-instructions.patch
queue-3.12/s390-dump-fix-dump-memory-detection.patch
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