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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2015-02-18 13:17:14 (GMT)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2015-03-25 10:49:38 (GMT)
commite1d12d70f7467c3b26cbd0c14139dcddec88448d (patch)
tree17af8e9ac0d160e0a3fab79549e76b14744935ca /arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
parent86cd741bc6ed0edf6ea0e8ec5c840cf9e3f3a7cb (diff)
downloadlinux-e1d12d70f7467c3b26cbd0c14139dcddec88448d.tar.xz
s390/traps: panic() instead of die() on translation exception
In case of a translation exception the page tables are corrupted. If the exception handler then calls die() which again calls show_regs() -> show_code() -> copy_from_user(), the kernel may access the same memory location again and generates yet another translation exception. Which in turn will lead to a deadlock on the die_lock spinlock, which the kernel tries to grab recursively. Given that the page tables are corrupted anyway, if we see such an exception, let's simply panic. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel/traps.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/traps.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
index 8be11c2..4d96c9f 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/traps.c
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ static inline void do_fp_trap(struct pt_regs *regs, int fpc)
void translation_exception(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* May never happen. */
- die(regs, "Translation exception");
+ panic("Translation exception");
}
void illegal_op(struct pt_regs *regs)