From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:48:15 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] [patch] 2.4.20-ia64-021210 prevent loop on zero instruction Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 21:44:12 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >The latest ia64 kernel patch for Linux 2.4.20 is available here: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ports/ia64/v2.4/linux-2.4.20-ia64-021210.diff.gz Trivial backport of a fix from 2.5 ia64. Prevents the kernel looping on a zero instruction. --- arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c.orig Wed Dec 11 23:44:14 2002 +++ arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c Wed Dec 11 23:45:47 2002 @@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ switch (break_num) { case 0: /* unknown error */ + die_if_kernel("bad break", regs, break_num); sig = SIGILL; code = ILL_ILLOPC; break;