* FAILED: patch "[PATCH] s390/chsc: Add exception handler for CHSC instruction" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree
@ 2017-03-12 15:47 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2017-03-12 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: oberpar, cornelia.huck, schwidefsky, sebott, stable; +Cc: stable
The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 77759137248f34864a8f7a58bbcebfcf1047504a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:52:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] s390/chsc: Add exception handler for CHSC instruction
Prevent kernel crashes due to unhandled exceptions raised by the CHSC
instruction which may for example be triggered by invalid ioctl data.
Fixes: 64150adf89df ("s390/cio: Introduce generic synchronous CHSC IOCTL")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.11+
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
diff --git a/drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c b/drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c
index 8225da619014..4182f60124da 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/cio/ioasm.c
@@ -165,13 +165,15 @@ int tpi(struct tpi_info *addr)
int chsc(void *chsc_area)
{
typedef struct { char _[4096]; } addr_type;
- int cc;
+ int cc = -EIO;
asm volatile(
" .insn rre,0xb25f0000,%2,0\n"
- " ipm %0\n"
+ "0: ipm %0\n"
" srl %0,28\n"
- : "=d" (cc), "=m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
+ "1:\n"
+ EX_TABLE(0b, 1b)
+ : "+d" (cc), "=m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
: "d" (chsc_area), "m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
: "cc");
trace_s390_cio_chsc(chsc_area, cc);
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