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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>s390/kvm: Fix store status for ACRS/FPRS</title>
<updated>2013-02-27T17:21:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-25T14:34:15+00:00</published>
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commit 15bc8d8457875f495c59d933b05770ba88d1eacb upstream.

On store status we need to copy the current state of registers
into a save area. Currently we might save stale versions:
The sie state descriptor doesnt have fields for guest ACRS,FPRS,
those registers are simply stored in the host registers. The host
program must copy these away if needed. We do that in vcpu_put/load.

If we now do a store status in KVM code between vcpu_put/load, the
saved values are not up-to-date. Lets collect the ACRS/FPRS before
saving them.

This also fixes some strange problems with hotplug and virtio-ccw,
since the low level machine check handler (on hotplug a machine check
will happen) will revalidate all registers with the content of the
save area.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 15bc8d8457875f495c59d933b05770ba88d1eacb upstream.

On store status we need to copy the current state of registers
into a save area. Currently we might save stale versions:
The sie state descriptor doesnt have fields for guest ACRS,FPRS,
those registers are simply stored in the host registers. The host
program must copy these away if needed. We do that in vcpu_put/load.

If we now do a store status in KVM code between vcpu_put/load, the
saved values are not up-to-date. Lets collect the ACRS/FPRS before
saving them.

This also fixes some strange problems with hotplug and virtio-ccw,
since the low level machine check handler (on hotplug a machine check
will happen) will revalidate all registers with the content of the
save area.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov &lt;gleb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/timer: avoid overflow when programming clock comparator</title>
<updated>2013-02-17T18:53:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-29T08:16:28+00:00</published>
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commit d911e03d097bdc01363df5d81c43f69432eb785c upstream.

Since ed4f209 "s390/time: fix sched_clock() overflow" a new helper function
is used to avoid overflows when converting TOD format values to nanosecond
values.
The kvm interrupt code formerly however only worked by accident because of
an overflow. It tried to program a timer that would expire in more than ~29
years. Because of the old TOD-to-nanoseconds overflow bug the real expiry
value however was much smaller, but now it isn't anymore.
This however triggers yet another bug in the function that programs the clock
comparator s390_next_ktime(): if the absolute "expires" value is after 2042
this will result in an overflow and the programmed value is lower than the
current TOD value which immediatly triggers a clock comparator (= timer)
interrupt.
Since the timer isn't expired it will be programmed immediately again and so
on... the result is a dead system.
To fix this simply program the maximum possible value if an overflow is
detected.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d911e03d097bdc01363df5d81c43f69432eb785c upstream.

Since ed4f209 "s390/time: fix sched_clock() overflow" a new helper function
is used to avoid overflows when converting TOD format values to nanosecond
values.
The kvm interrupt code formerly however only worked by accident because of
an overflow. It tried to program a timer that would expire in more than ~29
years. Because of the old TOD-to-nanoseconds overflow bug the real expiry
value however was much smaller, but now it isn't anymore.
This however triggers yet another bug in the function that programs the clock
comparator s390_next_ktime(): if the absolute "expires" value is after 2042
this will result in an overflow and the programmed value is lower than the
current TOD value which immediatly triggers a clock comparator (= timer)
interrupt.
Since the timer isn't expired it will be programmed immediately again and so
on... the result is a dead system.
To fix this simply program the maximum possible value if an overflow is
detected.

Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/thp: implement pmdp_set_wrprotect()</title>
<updated>2013-02-04T00:27:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gerald Schaefer</name>
<email>gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-21T15:48:07+00:00</published>
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commit be3286507dab888d4aad9f91fd6ff5202b24cd5b upstream.

On s390, an architecture-specific implementation of the function
pmdp_set_wrprotect() is missing and the generic version is currently
being used. The generic version does not flush the tlb as it would be
needed on s390 when modifying an active pmd, which can lead to subtle
tlb errors on s390 when using transparent hugepages.

This patch adds an s390-specific implementation of pmdp_set_wrprotect()
including the missing tlb flush.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit be3286507dab888d4aad9f91fd6ff5202b24cd5b upstream.

On s390, an architecture-specific implementation of the function
pmdp_set_wrprotect() is missing and the generic version is currently
being used. The generic version does not flush the tlb as it would be
needed on s390 when modifying an active pmd, which can lead to subtle
tlb errors on s390 when using transparent hugepages.

This patch adds an s390-specific implementation of pmdp_set_wrprotect()
including the missing tlb flush.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/time: fix sched_clock() overflow</title>
<updated>2013-01-21T19:44:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-14T15:55:55+00:00</published>
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commit ed4f20943cd4c7b55105c04daedf8d63ab6d499c upstream.

Converting a 64 Bit TOD format value to nanoseconds means that the value
must be divided by 4.096. In order to achieve that we multiply with 125
and divide by 512.
When used within sched_clock() this triggers an overflow after appr.
417 days. Resulting in a sched_clock() return value that is much smaller
than previously and therefore may cause all sort of weird things in
subsystems that rely on a monotonic sched_clock() behaviour.

To fix this implement a tod_to_ns() helper function which converts TOD
values without overflow and call this function from both places that
open coded the conversion: sched_clock() and kvm_s390_handle_wait().

Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ed4f20943cd4c7b55105c04daedf8d63ab6d499c upstream.

Converting a 64 Bit TOD format value to nanoseconds means that the value
must be divided by 4.096. In order to achieve that we multiply with 125
and divide by 512.
When used within sched_clock() this triggers an overflow after appr.
417 days. Resulting in a sched_clock() return value that is much smaller
than previously and therefore may cause all sort of weird things in
subsystems that rely on a monotonic sched_clock() behaviour.

To fix this implement a tod_to_ns() helper function which converts TOD
values without overflow and call this function from both places that
open coded the conversion: sched_clock() and kvm_s390_handle_wait().

Reviewed-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/kvm: Fix address space mixup</title>
<updated>2013-01-17T16:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-15T08:35:16+00:00</published>
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commit ce6a04ac1b759beafc88dbc443ae5da867579eeb upstream.

I was chasing down a bug of random validity intercepts on s390.
(guest prefix page not mapped in the host virtual aspace). Turns out
that the problem was a wrong address space control element. The
cause was quite complex:

During paging activity a DAT protection during SIE caused a program
interrupt. Normally, the sie retry loop tries to catch all
interrupts during and shortly before sie to rerun the setup. The
problem is now that protection causes a suppressing program interrupt,
causing the PSW to point to the instruction AFTER SIE in case of DAT
protection. This confused the logic of the retry loop to not trigger,
instead we jumped directly back to SIE after return from
the program  interrupt. (the protection fault handler itself did
a rewind of the psw). This usually works quite well, but:

If now the protection fault handler has to wait, another program
might be scheduled in. Later on the sie process will be schedules
in again. In that case the content of CR1 (primary address space)
will be wrong because switch_to will put the user space ASCE into CR1
and not the guest ASCE.

In addition the program parameter is also wrong for every protection
fault of a guest, since we dont issue the SPP instruction.

So lets also check for PSW == instruction after SIE in the program
check handler. Instead of expensively checking all program
interruption codes that might be suppressing we assume that a program
interrupt pointing after SIE was always a program interrupt in SIE.
(Otherwise we have a kernel bug anyway).

We also have to compensate the rewinding, since the C-level handlers
will do that. Therefore we need to add a nop with the same length
as SIE before the sie_loop.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ce6a04ac1b759beafc88dbc443ae5da867579eeb upstream.

I was chasing down a bug of random validity intercepts on s390.
(guest prefix page not mapped in the host virtual aspace). Turns out
that the problem was a wrong address space control element. The
cause was quite complex:

During paging activity a DAT protection during SIE caused a program
interrupt. Normally, the sie retry loop tries to catch all
interrupts during and shortly before sie to rerun the setup. The
problem is now that protection causes a suppressing program interrupt,
causing the PSW to point to the instruction AFTER SIE in case of DAT
protection. This confused the logic of the retry loop to not trigger,
instead we jumped directly back to SIE after return from
the program  interrupt. (the protection fault handler itself did
a rewind of the psw). This usually works quite well, but:

If now the protection fault handler has to wait, another program
might be scheduled in. Later on the sie process will be schedules
in again. In that case the content of CR1 (primary address space)
will be wrong because switch_to will put the user space ASCE into CR1
and not the guest ASCE.

In addition the program parameter is also wrong for every protection
fault of a guest, since we dont issue the SPP instruction.

So lets also check for PSW == instruction after SIE in the program
check handler. Instead of expensively checking all program
interruption codes that might be suppressing we assume that a program
interrupt pointing after SIE was always a program interrupt in SIE.
(Otherwise we have a kernel bug anyway).

We also have to compensate the rewinding, since the C-level handlers
will do that. Therefore we need to add a nop with the same length
as SIE before the sie_loop.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/kvm: dont announce RRBM support</title>
<updated>2013-01-17T16:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntraeger@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T14:25:38+00:00</published>
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commit 87cac8f879a5ecd7109dbe688087e8810b3364eb upstream.

Newer kernels (linux-next with the transparent huge page patches)
use rrbm if the feature is announced via feature bit 66.
RRBM will cause intercepts, so KVM does not handle it right now,
causing an illegal instruction in the guest.
The  easy solution is to disable the feature bit for the guest.

This fixes bugs like:
Kernel BUG at 0000000000124c2a [verbose debug info unavailable]
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: virtio_balloon virtio_net ipv6 autofs4
CPU: 0 Not tainted 3.5.4 #1
Process fmempig (pid: 659, task: 000000007b712fd0, ksp: 000000007bed3670)
Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 0000000000124c2a (pmdp_clear_flush_young+0x5e/0x80)
     R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
     00000000003cc000 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000079800000
     0000000000040000 0000000000000000 000000007bed3918 000000007cf40000
     0000000000000001 000003fff7f00000 000003d281a94000 000000007bed383c
     000000007bed3918 00000000005ecbf8 00000000002314a6 000000007bed36e0
 Krnl Code:&gt;0000000000124c2a: b9810025          ogr     %r2,%r5
           0000000000124c2e: 41343000           la      %r3,0(%r4,%r3)
           0000000000124c32: a716fffa           brct    %r1,124c26
           0000000000124c36: b9010022           lngr    %r2,%r2
           0000000000124c3a: e3d0f0800004       lg      %r13,128(%r15)
           0000000000124c40: eb22003f000c       srlg    %r2,%r2,63
[ 2150.713198] Call Trace:
[ 2150.713223] ([&lt;00000000002312c4&gt;] page_referenced_one+0x6c/0x27c)
[ 2150.713749]  [&lt;0000000000233812&gt;] page_referenced+0x32a/0x410
[...]

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Alex Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 87cac8f879a5ecd7109dbe688087e8810b3364eb upstream.

Newer kernels (linux-next with the transparent huge page patches)
use rrbm if the feature is announced via feature bit 66.
RRBM will cause intercepts, so KVM does not handle it right now,
causing an illegal instruction in the guest.
The  easy solution is to disable the feature bit for the guest.

This fixes bugs like:
Kernel BUG at 0000000000124c2a [verbose debug info unavailable]
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: virtio_balloon virtio_net ipv6 autofs4
CPU: 0 Not tainted 3.5.4 #1
Process fmempig (pid: 659, task: 000000007b712fd0, ksp: 000000007bed3670)
Krnl PSW : 0704d00180000000 0000000000124c2a (pmdp_clear_flush_young+0x5e/0x80)
     R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:1 PM:0 EA:3
     00000000003cc000 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000079800000
     0000000000040000 0000000000000000 000000007bed3918 000000007cf40000
     0000000000000001 000003fff7f00000 000003d281a94000 000000007bed383c
     000000007bed3918 00000000005ecbf8 00000000002314a6 000000007bed36e0
 Krnl Code:&gt;0000000000124c2a: b9810025          ogr     %r2,%r5
           0000000000124c2e: 41343000           la      %r3,0(%r4,%r3)
           0000000000124c32: a716fffa           brct    %r1,124c26
           0000000000124c36: b9010022           lngr    %r2,%r2
           0000000000124c3a: e3d0f0800004       lg      %r13,128(%r15)
           0000000000124c40: eb22003f000c       srlg    %r2,%r2,63
[ 2150.713198] Call Trace:
[ 2150.713223] ([&lt;00000000002312c4&gt;] page_referenced_one+0x6c/0x27c)
[ 2150.713749]  [&lt;0000000000233812&gt;] page_referenced+0x32a/0x410
[...]

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
CC: Alex Graf &lt;agraf@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti &lt;mtosatti@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>open*(2) compat fixes (s390, arm64)</title>
<updated>2012-12-02T18:46:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-02T17:55:07+00:00</published>
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The usual rules for open()/openat()/open_by_handle_at() are
 1) native 32bit - don't force O_LARGEFILE in flags
 2) native 64bit - force O_LARGEFILE in flags
 3) compat on 64bit host - as for native 32bit
 4) native 32bit ABI for 64bit system (mips/n32, x86/x32) - as for
    native 64bit

There are only two exceptions - s390 compat has open() forcing
O_LARGEFILE and arm64 compat has open_by_handle_at() doing the same
thing.  The same binaries on native host (s390/31 and arm resp.) will
*not* force O_LARGEFILE, so IMO both are emulation bugs.

Objections? The fix is obvious...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The usual rules for open()/openat()/open_by_handle_at() are
 1) native 32bit - don't force O_LARGEFILE in flags
 2) native 64bit - force O_LARGEFILE in flags
 3) compat on 64bit host - as for native 32bit
 4) native 32bit ABI for 64bit system (mips/n32, x86/x32) - as for
    native 64bit

There are only two exceptions - s390 compat has open() forcing
O_LARGEFILE and arm64 compat has open_by_handle_at() doing the same
thing.  The same binaries on native host (s390/31 and arm resp.) will
*not* force O_LARGEFILE, so IMO both are emulation bugs.

Objections? The fix is obvious...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/mm: have 16 byte aligned struct pages</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T10:03:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-08T13:18:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4bffbb3455372a26816e364fb4448810f7014452'/>
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Select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE on s390, so that the slub allocator can make
use of compare and swap double for lockless updates. This increases the size
of struct page to 64 bytes (instead of 56 bytes), however the performance gain
justifies the increased size:

- now excactly four struct pages fit into a single cache line; the
  case that accessing a struct page causes two cache line loads
  does not exist anymore.
- calculating the offset of a struct page within the memmap array
  is only a simple shift instead of a more expensive multiplication.

A "hackbench 200 process 200" run on a 32 cpu system did show an 8% runtime
improvement.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE on s390, so that the slub allocator can make
use of compare and swap double for lockless updates. This increases the size
of struct page to 64 bytes (instead of 56 bytes), however the performance gain
justifies the increased size:

- now excactly four struct pages fit into a single cache line; the
  case that accessing a struct page causes two cache line loads
  does not exist anymore.
- calculating the offset of a struct page within the memmap array
  is only a simple shift instead of a more expensive multiplication.

A "hackbench 200 process 200" run on a 32 cpu system did show an 8% runtime
improvement.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/gup: fix access_ok() usage in __get_user_pages_fast()</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T10:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-22T13:58:26+00:00</published>
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access_ok() returns always "true" on s390. Therefore all access_ok()
invocations are rather pointless.
However when walking page tables we need to make sure that everything
is within bounds of the ASCE limit of the task's address space.
So remove the access_ok() call and add the same check we have in
get_user_pages_fast().

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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<pre>
access_ok() returns always "true" on s390. Therefore all access_ok()
invocations are rather pointless.
However when walking page tables we need to make sure that everything
is within bounds of the ASCE limit of the task's address space.
So remove the access_ok() call and add the same check we have in
get_user_pages_fast().

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/gup: add missing TASK_SIZE check to get_user_pages_fast()</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T10:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-22T13:49:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d55c4c613fc4d4ad2ba0fc6fa2b57176d420f7e4'/>
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<content type='text'>
When walking page tables we need to make sure that everything
is within bounds of the ASCE limit of the task's address space.
Otherwise we might calculate e.g. a pud pointer which is not
within a pud and dereference it.
So check against TASK_SIZE (which is the ASCE limit) before
walking page tables.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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When walking page tables we need to make sure that everything
is within bounds of the ASCE limit of the task's address space.
Otherwise we might calculate e.g. a pud pointer which is not
within a pud and dereference it.
So check against TASK_SIZE (which is the ASCE limit) before
walking page tables.

Reviewed-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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