linux-stable.git/arch/s390/kernel, branch linux-3.13.y

s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions

2014-02-22T21:34:44+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

s390/smp: improve setup of possible cpu mask

2013-12-18T16:35:18+00:00

Since under z/VM we cannot have more than 64 cpus, make sure the
cpu_possible_mask does not contain more bits.
This avoids wasting memory for dynamic per-cpu allocations if
CONFIG_NR_CPUS is larger than 64.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/time,vdso: fix clock_gettime for CLOCK_MONOTONIC

2013-12-02T17:15:25+00:00

With git commit 79c74ecbebf76732f91b82a62ce7fc8a88326962
"s390/time,vdso: convert to the new update_vsyscall interface"
the new update_vsyscall function already does the sum of xtime
and wall_to_monotonic. The old update_vsyscall function only
copied the wall_to_monotonic offset. The vdso code needs to be
modified to take this into consideration.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/vdso: ectg gettime support for CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID

2013-12-02T14:31:10+00:00

The code to use the ECTG instruction to calculate the cputime for the
current thread is currently used only for the per-thread CPU-clock
with the clockid -2 (PID=0, VIRT=1). Use the same code for the clockid
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID to speed up the more common clockid as well.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/vdso: fix access-list entry initialization

2013-12-02T14:31:09+00:00

The access-list entry is supposed to have the fetch-only bit set, however
a reserved bit got set instead.
Userspace isn't able to write to the page anyway since the accessed page
has the read-only bit set. So this saves us only for bad surprises in the
future if the reserved bit gets used.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/mm: handle asce-type exceptions as normal page fault

2013-11-25T08:15:42+00:00

Git commit 9e34f2686bb088b211b6cac8772e1f644c6180f8
"s390/mm,tlb: tlb flush on page table upgrade fixup" removed the
exception handler for the asce-type exception. This is incorrect
as the user-copy with MVCOS can cause asce-type exceptions in
the kernel if a user pointer is too large. Those need to be
handled with do_no_context to branch to the fixup in the
user-copy code.

The simplest fix for this problem is to call do_dat_exception for
asce-type excpetions, as there is no vma for the address the code
will handle the exception correctly.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390,time: revert direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device

2013-11-25T08:15:41+00:00

Git commit 4f37a68cdaf6dea833cfdded2a3e0c47c0f006da
"s390: Use direct ktime path for s390 clockevent device" makes use
of the CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_KTIME clockevent option to avoid the delta
calculation with ktime_get() in clockevents_program_event and the
get_tod_clock() in s390_next_event. This is based on the assumption
that the difference between the internal ktime and the hardware
clock is reflected in the wall_to_monotonic delta. But this is not
true, the ntp corrections are applied via changes to the tk->mult
multiplier and this is not reflected in wall_to_monotonic.

In theory this could be solved by using the raw monotonic clock
but it is simpler to switch back to the standard clock delta
calculation.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/time,vdso: convert to the new update_vsyscall interface

2013-11-25T08:15:39+00:00

Switch to the improved update_vsyscall interface that provides
sub-nanosecond precision for gettimeofday and clock_gettime.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky

s390/signal: always restore saved runtime instrumentation psw bit

2013-11-20T08:04:53+00:00

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

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2013-11-19T19:43:21+00:00

Pull second set of s390 patches from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The handling of the PCI hotplug notifications has been improved, the
  zfcp dumper can now detect the HSA size dynamically and the default
  install kernel has been changed to the compressed bzImage.  And two
  bug-fixes for scm and 3720"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/pci: implement hotplug notifications
  s390/scm_block: do not hide eadm subchannel dependency
  s390/sclp: Consolidate early sclp init calls to sclp_early_detect()
  s390/sclp: Move early code from sclp_cmd.c to sclp_early.c
  s390/sclp: Determine HSA size dynamically for zfcpdump
  s390/sclp: Move declarations for sclp_sdias into separate header file
  s390/pci: implement pcibios_remove_bus
  s390/pci: improve handling of bus resources
  s390/3270: fix missing device_destroy() call
  s390/boot: Install bzImage as default kernel image