linux-kernel - [PATCH] s390: TASK_SIZE for kernel threads

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:15:29 +0100
From:   Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Carsten Otte <cotte@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] s390: TASK_SIZE for kernel threads

Return a sensible value if TASK_SIZE if called from a kernel thread.

This gets us around an issue with copy_mount_options that does a magic
size calculation "TASK_SIZE - (unsigned long)data" while in a kernel
thread and data pointing to kernel space.

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
---
 arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
index dacba34..4045639 100644
--- a/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
+++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/processor.h
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ extern void execve_tail(void);
  * User space process size: 2GB for 31 bit, 4TB or 8PT for 64 bit.
  */
 
-#define TASK_SIZE_OF(tsk)	((tsk)->mm->context.asce_limit)
+#define TASK_SIZE_OF(tsk)	((tsk)->mm ? \
+				 (tsk)->mm->context.asce_limit : TASK_MAX_SIZE)
 #define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE	(test_thread_flag(TIF_31BIT) ? \
 					(1UL << 30) : (1UL << 41))
 #define TASK_SIZE		TASK_SIZE_OF(current)
-- 
2.7.4