linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.1 031/123] s390/cachinfo: add missing facility check to init_cache

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Date:	Sat,  8 Aug 2015 15:08:29 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.1 031/123] s390/cachinfo: add missing facility check to init_cache_level()

4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>

commit 0b991f5cdcd6201e5401f83ca3a672343c3bfc49 upstream.

Stephen Powell reported the following crash on a z890 machine:

Kernel BUG at 00000000001219d0 [verbose debug info unavailable]
illegal operation: 0001 ilc:3 [#1] SMP
Krnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 00000000001219d0 (init_cache_level+0x38/0xe0)
	   R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
Krnl Code: 00000000001219c2: a7840056		brc	8,121a6e
	   00000000001219c6: a7190000		lghi	%r1,0
	  #00000000001219ca: eb101000004c	ecag	%r1,%r0,0(%r1)
	  >00000000001219d0: a7390000		lghi	%r3,0
	   00000000001219d4: e310f0a00024	stg	%r1,160(%r15)
	   00000000001219da: a7080000		lhi	%r0,0
	   00000000001219de: a7b9f000		lghi	%r11,-4096
	   00000000001219e2: c0a0002899d9	larl	%r10,634d94
Call Trace:
 [<0000000000478ee2>] detect_cache_attributes+0x2a/0x2b8
 [<000000000097c9b0>] cacheinfo_sysfs_init+0x60/0xc8
 [<00000000001001c0>] do_one_initcall+0x98/0x1c8
 [<000000000094fdc2>] kernel_init_freeable+0x212/0x2d8
 [<000000000062352e>] kernel_init+0x26/0x118
 [<000000000062fd2e>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc

The illegal operation was executed because of a missing facility check,
which should have made sure that the ECAG execution would only be executed
on machines which have the general-instructions-extension facility
installed.

Reported-and-tested-by: Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@...way.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/s390/kernel/cache.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/cache.c
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ int init_cache_level(unsigned int cpu)
 	union cache_topology ct;
 	enum cache_type ctype;
 
+	if (!test_facility(34))
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 	if (!this_cpu_ci)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	ct.raw = ecag(EXTRACT_TOPOLOGY, 0, 0);


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