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authorMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2014-02-03 17:37:15 +0100
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2014-04-09 02:20:46 +0100
commit1664028240024d96721a5328c93ff206661cd9e1 (patch)
tree1706582342592e3c724e315fbd5da7068cb2afb8 /include
parentb1a292f3ccbbfe864cb4931e8fed4baea6b17eb8 (diff)
s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions
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@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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