Martin Schwidefsky 8d7f6690ce s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions ...

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 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

2014-02-05 11:00:50 +01:00

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