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    s390: fix kernel crash due to linkage stack instructions · 0e37e30a
    Martin Schwidefsky authored
    commit 8d7f6690 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: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
    [dannf: backported to Debian's 2.6.32]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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