s390/traps: panic() instead of die() on translation exception
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:17:14 +0000 (14:17 +0100)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:49:38 +0000 (11:49 +0100)
commite1d12d70f7467c3b26cbd0c14139dcddec88448d
tree17af8e9ac0d160e0a3fab79549e76b14744935ca
parent86cd741bc6ed0edf6ea0e8ec5c840cf9e3f3a7cb
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>
arch/s390/kernel/traps.c