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2014-10-09s390: add support for vector extensionMartin Schwidefsky
The vector extension introduces 32 128-bit vector registers and a set of instruction to operate on the vector registers. The kernel can control the use of vector registers for the problem state program with a bit in control register 0. Once enabled for a process the kernel needs to retain the content of the vector registers on context switch. The signal frame is extended to include the vector registers. Two new register sets NT_S390_VXRS_LOW and NT_S390_VXRS_HIGH are added to the regset interface for the debugger and core dumps. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2014-08-06s390: Use get_signal() signal_setup_done()Richard Weinberger
Use the more generic functions get_signal() signal_setup_done() for signal delivery. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2014-05-20s390: split TIF bits into CIF, PIF and TIF bitsMartin Schwidefsky
The oi and ni instructions used in entry[64].S to set and clear bits in the thread-flags are not guaranteed to be atomic in regard to other CPUs. Split the TIF bits into CPU, pt_regs and thread-info specific bits. Updates on the TIF bits are done with atomic instructions, updates on CPU and pt_regs bits are done with non-atomic instructions. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-11-20s390/signal: always restore saved runtime instrumentation psw bitHendrik Brueckner
Commit "s390: fix handling of runtime instrumentation psw bit" (5ebf250dab) changed the behavior of setting the runtime instrumentation psw bit. This commit restores the original logic: 1. When returning from the signal handler, the runtime instrumentation psw bit is restored to its saved state. 2. If the runtime instrumentation psw bit is enabled during the signal handler, it is always turned off when leaving the signal handler. The saved state is restored as described in 1. That also implies that turning on runtime instrumentation in the signal handler is only effective while running in the signal context. Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-24s390: fix handling of runtime instrumentation psw bitHeiko Carstens
Fix the following bugs: - When returning from a signal the signal handler copies the saved psw mask from user space and uses parts of it. Especially it restores the RI bit unconditionally. If however the machine doesn't support RI, or RI is disabled for the task, the last lpswe instruction which returns to user space will generate a specification exception. To fix this check if the RI bit is allowed to be set and kill the task if not. - In the compat mode signal handler code the RI bit of the psw mask gets propagated to the mask of the return psw: if user space enables RI in the signal handler, RI will also be enabled after the signal handler is finished. This is a different behaviour than with 64 bit tasks. So change this to match the 64 bit semantics, which restores the original RI bit value. - Fix similar oddities within the ptrace code as well. Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-10-24s390: fix save and restore of the floating-point-control registerMartin Schwidefsky
The FPC_VALID_MASK has been used to check the validity of the value to be loaded into the floating-point-control register. With the introduction of the floating-point extension facility and the decimal-floating-point additional bits have been defined which need to be checked in a non straight forward way. So far these bits have been ignored which can cause an incorrect results for decimal- floating-point operations, e.g. an incorrect rounding mode to be set after signal return. The static check with the FPC_VALID_MASK is replaced with a trial load of the floating-point-control value, see test_fp_ctl. In addition an information leak with the padding word between the floating-point-control word and the floating-point registers in the s390_fp_regs is fixed. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-10-24s390/compat,signal: change return values to -EFAULTHeiko Carstens
Instead of returnin the number of bytes not copied and/or -EFAULT let the signal handler helper functions always return -EFAULT if a user space access failed. This doesn't fix a bug in the current code, but makes is harder to get it wrong in the future. Also "smatch" won't complain anymore about the fact that the number of remaining bytes gets returned instead of -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-10-24s390/uaccess: always run the kernel in home spaceMartin Schwidefsky
Simplify the uaccess code by removing the user_mode=home option. The kernel will now always run in the home space mode. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-02-28s390/uaccess: remove pointless access_ok() checksHeiko Carstens
access_ok() always returns 'true' on s390. Therefore all calls are quite pointless and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-02-03s390: switch to generic old sigaction()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03s390: switch to generic old sigsuspendAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-02-03s390: switch to generic sigaltstackAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-11-23s390/ptrace: race of single stepping vs signal deliveryMartin Schwidefsky
The current single step code is racy in regard to concurrent delivery of signals. If a signal is delivered after a PER program check occurred but before the TIF_PER_TRAP bit has been checked in entry[64].S the code clears TIF_PER_TRAP and then calls do_signal. This is wrong, if the instruction completed (or has been suppressed) a SIGTRAP should be delivered to the debugger in any case. Only if the instruction has been nullified the SIGTRAP may not be send. The new logic always sets TIF_PER_TRAP if the program check indicates PER tracing but removes it again for all program checks that are nullifying. The effect is that for each change in the PSW address we now get a single SIGTRAP. Reported-by: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-11-12s390/signal: set correct address space controlMartin Schwidefsky
If user space is running in primary mode it can switch to secondary or access register mode, this is used e.g. in the clock_gettime code of the vdso. If a signal is delivered to the user space process while it has been running in access register mode the signal handler is executed in access register mode as well which will result in a crash most of the time. Set the address space control bits in the PSW to the default for the execution of the signal handler and make sure that the previous address space control is restored on signal return. Take care that user space can not switch to the kernel address space by modifying the registers in the signal frame. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-07-20s390/comments: unify copyright messages and remove file namesHeiko Carstens
Remove the file name from the comment at top of many files. In most cases the file name was wrong anyway, so it's rather pointless. Also unify the IBM copyright statement. We did have a lot of sightly different statements and wanted to change them one after another whenever a file gets touched. However that never happened. Instead people start to take the old/"wrong" statements to use as a template for new files. So unify all of them in one go. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2012-06-01new helper: signal_delivered()Al Viro
Does block_sigmask() + tracehook_signal_handler(); called when sigframe has been successfully built. All architectures converted to it; block_sigmask() itself is gone now (merged into this one). I'm still not too happy with the signature, but that's a separate story (IMO we need a structure that would contain signal number + siginfo + k_sigaction, so that get_signal_to_deliver() would fill one, signal_delivered(), handle_signal() and probably setup...frame() - take one). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from setAl Viro
Only 3 out of 63 do not. Renamed the current variant to __set_current_blocked(), added set_current_blocked() that will exclude unblockable signals, switched open-coded instances to it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01new helper: sigmask_to_save()Al Viro
replace boilerplate "should we use ->saved_sigmask or ->blocked?" with calls of obvious inlined helper... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-01new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()Al Viro
first fruits of ..._restore_sigmask() helpers: now we can take boilerplate "signal didn't have a handler, clear RESTORE_SIGMASK and restore the blocked mask from ->saved_mask" into a common helper. Open-coded instances switched... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-23move key_repace_session_keyring() into tracehook_notify_resume()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-21new helper: sigsuspend()Al Viro
guts of saved_sigmask-based sigsuspend/rt_sigsuspend. Takes kernel sigset_t *. Open-coded instances replaced with calling it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-05-16s390: remove dead code from signal handlerMartin Schwidefsky
The code in entry[64].S calls do_signal only on return to user space. user_mode(regs) is true for every calls to do_signal, it is unnecessary to recheck user_mode at the start of do_signal and the legacy signal stack switching path in get_sigframe is never reached. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-03-28Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390David Howells
Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
2012-03-11[S390] Use block_sigmask()Matt Fleming
Use the new helper function introduced in commit 5e6292c0f28f ("signal: add block_sigmask() for adding sigmask to current->blocked") which centralises the code for updating current->blocked after successfully delivering a signal and reduces the amount of duplicate code across architectures. In the past some architectures got this code wrong, so using this helper function should stop that from happening again. Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2012-02-27compat: fix compile breakage on s390Heiko Carstens
The new is_compat_task() define for the !COMPAT case in include/linux/compat.h conflicts with a similar define in arch/s390/include/asm/compat.h. This is the minimal patch which fixes the build issues. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-27[S390] cleanup trap handlingMartin Schwidefsky
Move the program interruption code and the translation exception identifier to the pt_regs structure as 'int_code' and 'int_parm_long' and make the first level interrupt handler in entry[64].S store the two values. That makes it possible to drop 'prot_addr' and 'trap_no' from the thread_struct and to reduce the number of arguments to a lot of functions. Finally un-inline do_trap. Overall this saves 5812 bytes in the .text section of the 64 bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-12-01[S390] ptrace inferior call interactions with TIF_SYSCALLMartin Schwidefsky
The TIF_SYSCALL bit needs to be cleared if the debugger changes the state of the ptraced process in regard to the presence of a system call. Otherwise the system call will be restarted although the debugger set up an inferior call. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30[S390] allow all addressing modesMartin Schwidefsky
The user space program can change its addressing mode between the 24-bit, 31-bit and the 64-bit mode if the kernel is 64 bit. Currently the kernel always forces the standard amode on signal delivery and signal return and on ptrace: 64-bit for a 64-bit process, 31-bit for a compat process and 31-bit kernels. Change the signal and ptrace code to allow the full range of addressing modes. Signal handlers are run in the standard addressing mode for the process. One caveat is that even an 31-bit compat process can switch to the 64-bit mode. The next signal will switch back into the 31-bit mode and there is no room in the 31-bit compat signal frame to store the information that the program came from the 64-bit mode. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30[S390] cleanup psw related bits and piecesMartin Schwidefsky
Split out addressing mode bits from PSW_BASE_BITS, rename PSW_BASE_BITS to PSW_MASK_BASE, get rid of psw_user32_bits, remove unused function enabled_wait(), introduce PSW_MASK_USER, and drop PSW_MASK_MERGE macros. Change psw_kernel_bits / psw_user_bits to contain only the bits that are always set in the respective mode. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30[S390] add TIF_SYSCALL thread flagMartin Schwidefsky
Add an explicit TIF_SYSCALL bit that indicates if a task is inside a system call. The svc_code in the pt_regs structure is now only valid if TIF_SYSCALL is set. With this definition TIF_RESTART_SVC can be replaced with TIF_SYSCALL. Overall do_signal is a bit more readable and it saves a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30[S390] addressing mode limits and psw address wrappingMartin Schwidefsky
An instruction with an address right below the adress limit for the current addressing mode will wrap. The instruction restart logic in the protection fault handler and the signal code need to follow the wrapping rules to find the correct instruction address. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-10-30[S390] signal race with restarting system callsMartin Schwidefsky
For a ERESTARTNOHAND/ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR restarting system call do_signal will prepare the restart of the system call with a rewind of the PSW before calling get_signal_to_deliver (where the debugger might take control). For A ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK restarting system call do_signal will set -EINTR as return code. There are two issues with this approach: 1) strace never sees ERESTARTNOHAND, ERESTARTSYS, ERESTARTNOINTR or ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK as the rewinding already took place or the return code has been changed to -EINTR 2) if get_signal_to_deliver does not return with a signal to deliver the restart via the repeat of the svc instruction is left in place. This opens a race if another signal is made pending before the system call instruction can be reexecuted. The original system call will be restarted even if the second signal would have ended the system call with -EINTR. These two issues can be solved by dropping the early rewind of the system call before get_signal_to_deliver has been called and by using the TIF_RESTART_SVC magic to do the restart if no signal has to be delivered. The only situation where the system call restart via the repeat of the svc instruction is appropriate is when a SA_RESTART signal is delivered to user space. Unfortunately this breaks inferior calls by the debugger again. The system call number and the length of the system call instruction is lost over the inferior call and user space will see ERESTARTNOHAND/ ERESTARTSYS/ERESTARTNOINTR/ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. To correct this a new ptrace interface is added to save/restore the system call number and system call instruction length. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2011-08-03[S390] signal: use set_restore_sigmask() helperHeiko Carstens
We should call set_restore_sigmask() instead of directly setting TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK. This change should have been done three years earlier... see 4e4c22 "signals: add set_restore_sigmask". Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2011-08-03[S390] signal: convert to use set_current_blocked()Heiko Carstens
Convert to use set_current_blocked() like x86. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2011-01-05[S390] ptrace cleanupMartin Schwidefsky
Overhaul program event recording and the code dealing with the ptrace user space interface. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-05-17[S390] add breaking event address for user spaceMartin Schwidefsky
Copy the last breaking event address from the lowcore to a new field in the thread_struct on each system entry. Add a new ptrace request PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK and a new utrace regset REGSET_LAST_BREAK to query the last breaking event. This is useful for debugging wild branches in user space code. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-01-27[S390] use set_current_state in sigsuspendMartin Schwidefsky
Use set_current_state instead of a direct assignment to set the task state of the current process. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2010-01-13[S390] duplicate SIGTRAP on signal delivery.Martin Schwidefsky
The code in do_signal sets the TIF_SINGLE_STEP bit and calls tracehook_signal_handler after the signal frame has been set up. This causes two SIGTRAP signals to be delivered to the tracer. Stop setting the TIF_SINGLE_STEP bit in do_signal to get the correct number of SIGTRAPs. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-09-02KEYS: Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring on its parent [try #6]David Howells
Add a keyctl to install a process's session keyring onto its parent. This replaces the parent's session keyring. Because the COW credential code does not permit one process to change another process's credentials directly, the change is deferred until userspace next starts executing again. Normally this will be after a wait*() syscall. To support this, three new security hooks have been provided: cred_alloc_blank() to allocate unset security creds, cred_transfer() to fill in the blank security creds and key_session_to_parent() - which asks the LSM if the process may replace its parent's session keyring. The replacement may only happen if the process has the same ownership details as its parent, and the process has LINK permission on the session keyring, and the session keyring is owned by the process, and the LSM permits it. Note that this requires alteration to each architecture's notify_resume path. This has been done for all arches barring blackfin, m68k* and xtensa, all of which need assembly alteration to support TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME. This allows the replacement to be performed at the point the parent process resumes userspace execution. This allows the userspace AFS pioctl emulation to fully emulate newpag() and the VIOCSETTOK and VIOCSETTOK2 pioctls, all of which require the ability to alter the parent process's PAG membership. However, since kAFS doesn't use PAGs per se, but rather dumps the keys into the session keyring, the session keyring of the parent must be replaced if, for example, VIOCSETTOK is passed the newpag flag. This can be tested with the following program: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <keyutils.h> #define KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT 18 #define OSERROR(X, S) do { if ((long)(X) == -1) { perror(S); exit(1); } } while(0) int main(int argc, char **argv) { key_serial_t keyring, key; long ret; keyring = keyctl_join_session_keyring(argv[1]); OSERROR(keyring, "keyctl_join_session_keyring"); key = add_key("user", "a", "b", 1, keyring); OSERROR(key, "add_key"); ret = keyctl(KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT); OSERROR(ret, "KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT"); return 0; } Compiled and linked with -lkeyutils, you should see something like: [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 355907932 --alswrv 4043 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.4043 [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: _ses 1055658746 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ /tmp/newpag hello [dhowells@andromeda ~]$ keyctl show Session Keyring -3 --alswrv 4043 4043 keyring: hello 340417692 --alswrv 4043 4043 \_ user: a Where the test program creates a new session keyring, sticks a user key named 'a' into it and then installs it on its parent. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-06-12[S390] implement is_compat_taskHeiko Carstens
Implement is_compat_task and use it all over the place. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] s390 specific system call wrappersHeiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-11-27[S390] fix system call parameter functions.Martin Schwidefsky
syscall_get_nr() currently returns a valid result only if the call chain of the traced process includes do_syscall_trace_enter(). But collect_syscall() can be called for any sleeping task, the result of syscall_get_nr() in general is completely bogus. To make syscall_get_nr() work for any sleeping task the traps field in pt_regs is replace with svcnr - the system call number the process is executing. If svcnr == 0 the process is not on a system call path. The syscall_get_arguments and syscall_set_arguments use regs->gprs[2] for the first system call parameter. This is incorrect since gprs[2] may have been overwritten with the system call number if the call chain includes do_syscall_trace_enter. Use regs->orig_gprs2 instead. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-10-10[S390] ptrace changesMartin Schwidefsky
* System call parameter and result access functions * Add tracehook calls * Split syscall_trace into two functions do_syscall_trace_enter and do_syscall_trace_exit Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-17[S390] Fix a lot of sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens
Most noteable part of this commit is the new local header file entry.h which contains all the function declarations of functions that get only called from asm code or are arch internal. That way we can avoid extern declarations in C files. This is more or less the same that was done for sparc64. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-04-17[S390] Protect against sigaltstack wraparound.Heiko Carstens
This is just a port of 83bd01024b1fdfc41d9b758e5669e80fca72df66 "x86: protect against sigaltstack wraparound". Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26[S390] single-step cleanupRoland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-27[S390] System call cleanup.Martin Schwidefsky
Remove system call glue for sys_clone, sys_fork, sys_vfork, sys_execve, sys_sigreturn, sys_rt_sigreturn and sys_sigaltstack. Call do_execve from kernel_execve directly, move pt_regs to the right place and branch to sysc_return to start the user space program. This removes the last in-kernel system call. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] noexec protectionGerald Schaefer
This provides a noexec protection on s390 hardware. Our hardware does not have any bits left in the pte for a hw noexec bit, so this is a different approach using shadow page tables and a special addressing mode that allows separate address spaces for code and data. As a special feature of our "secondary-space" addressing mode, separate page tables can be specified for the translation of data addresses (storage operands) and instruction addresses. The shadow page table is used for the instruction addresses and the standard page table for the data addresses. The shadow page table is linked to the standard page table by a pointer in page->lru.next of the struct page corresponding to the page that contains the standard page table (since page->private is not really private with the pte_lock and the page table pages are not in the LRU list). Depending on the software bits of a pte, it is either inserted into both page tables or just into the standard (data) page table. Pages of a vma that does not have the VM_EXEC bit set get mapped only in the data address space. Any try to execute code on such a page will cause a page translation exception. The standard reaction to this is a SIGSEGV with two exceptions: the two system call opcodes 0x0a77 (sys_sigreturn) and 0x0aad (sys_rt_sigreturn) are allowed. They are stored by the kernel to the signal stack frame. Unfortunately, the signal return mechanism cannot be modified to use an SA_RESTORER because the exception unwinding code depends on the system call opcode stored behind the signal stack frame. This feature requires that user space is executed in secondary-space mode and the kernel in home-space mode, which means that the addressing modes need to be switched and that the noexec protection only works for user space. After switching the addressing modes, we cannot use the mvcp/mvcs instructions anymore to copy between kernel and user space. A new mvcos instruction has been added to the z9 EC/BC hardware which allows to copy between arbitrary address spaces, but on older hardware the page tables need to be walked manually. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>