linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch
Greg Ungerer 0b98027122 m68knommu: fix user a5 register being overwritten
On no-MMU systems the application a5 register can be overwitten with the
address of the process data segment when processing application signals.
For flat format applications compiled with full absolute relocation this
effectively corrupts the a5 register on signal processing - and this very
quickly leads to process crash and often takes out the whole system with
a panic as well.

This has no effect on flat format applications compiled with the more
common PIC methods (such as -msep-data). These format applications reserve
a5 for the pointer to the data segment anyway - so it doesn't change it.

A long time ago the a5 register was used in the code packed into the user
stack to enable signal return processing. And so it had to be restored on
end of signal cleanup processing back to the original a5 user value. This
was historically done by saving away a5 in the sigcontext structure. At
some point (a long time back it seems) the a5 restore process was changed
and it was hard coded to put the user data segment address directly into a5.
Which is ok for the common PIC compiled application case, but breaks the
full relocation application code.

We no longer use this type of signal handling mechanism and so we don't
need to do anything special to save and restore a5 at all now. So remove the
code that hard codes a5 to the address of the user data segment.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
2016-08-08 12:38:47 +10:00
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alpha RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
arc dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
arm * ARM bugfix and MSI injection support 2016-08-06 09:18:21 -04:00
arm64 * ARM bugfix and MSI injection support 2016-08-06 09:18:21 -04:00
avr32 dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
blackfin dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
c6x dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
cris dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
frv RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
h8300 RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
hexagon dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
ia64 RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
m32r mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
m68k m68knommu: fix user a5 register being overwritten 2016-08-08 12:38:47 +10:00
metag Metag architecture changes for v4.8 2016-08-05 08:58:00 -04:00
microblaze dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2016-08-06 09:13:11 -04:00
mn10300 RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
nios2 dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
openrisc dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
parisc RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
powerpc RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
s390 dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
score treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
sh These changes improve device tree support (including builtin DTB), add 2016-08-06 09:00:05 -04:00
sparc RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
tile tile: support static_key usage in non-module __exit sections 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-08-04 19:37:59 -04:00
unicore32 dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
x86 * ARM bugfix and MSI injection support 2016-08-06 09:18:21 -04:00
xtensa dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:37:12 -04:00