Martin Schwidefsky e370e47694 s390: fix floating pointer register corruption (again) ...

There is a tricky interaction between the machine check handler
and the critical sections of load_fpu_regs and save_fpu_regs
functions. If the machine check interrupts one of the two
functions the critical section cleanup will complete the function
before the machine check handler s390_do_machine_check is called.
Trouble is that the machine check handler needs to validate the
floating point registers *before* and not *after* the completion
of load_fpu_regs/save_fpu_regs.

The simplest solution is to rewind the PSW to the start of the
load_fpu_regs/save_fpu_regs and retry the function after the
return from the machine check handler.

Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

2016-03-10 14:35:42 +01:00

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