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Heiko Carstens d0e810eeb3 s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT
Rebooting into a new kernel with kexec fails (system dies) if tried on
a machine that has no-execute support. Reason for this is that the so
called datamover code gets executed with DAT on (MMU is active) and
the page that contains the datamover is marked as non-executable.
Therefore when branching into the datamover an unexpected program
check happens and afterwards the machine is dead.

This can be simply avoided by disabling DAT, which also disables any
no-execute checks, just before the datamover gets executed.

In fact the first thing done by the datamover is to disable DAT. The
code in the datamover that disables DAT can be removed as well.

Thanks to Michael Holzheu and Gerald Schaefer for tracking this down.

Reviewed-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Fixes: 57d7f939e7 ("s390: add no-execute support")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2017-11-10 18:58:08 +01:00
arch s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT 2017-11-10 18:58:08 +01:00
block block: fix a crash caused by wrong API 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation s390: introduce CPU alternatives 2017-10-18 14:11:29 +02:00
drivers A vfio-ccw bugfix: avoid freeing that which should not be freed. 2017-11-10 18:54:11 +01:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
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include s390/ptrace: add runtime instrumention register get/set 2017-09-28 07:29:41 +02:00
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mm fs: Fix page cache inconsistency when mixing buffered and AIO DIO 2017-09-25 08:56:05 -06:00
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scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-09-24 11:40:41 -07:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools linux-kselftest-4.14-rc3-fixes 2017-09-27 10:51:08 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.