3.2.57-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ 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 @@ -69,12 +69,15 @@ 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) -- 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