FAILED: patch "[PATCH] s390/chsc: Add exception handler for CHSC instruction" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

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If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: Peter Oberparleiter <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:52:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] s390/chsc: Add exception handler for CHSC instruction

Prevent kernel crashes due to unhandled exceptions raised by the CHSC instruction which may for example be triggered by invalid ioctl data.

index 8225da619014..4182f60124da 100644
@@ -165,13 +165,15 @@ int tpi(struct tpi_info *addr)
 int chsc(void *chsc_area)
 {
 	typedef struct { char _[4096]; } addr_type;
-	int cc;
+	int cc = -EIO;
 
 	asm volatile(
 		"	.insn	rre,0xb25f0000,%2,0\n"
-		"	ipm	%0\n"
+		"0:	ipm	%0\n"
 		"	srl	%0,28\n"
-		: "=d" (cc), "=m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
+		"1:\n"
+		EX_TABLE(0b, 1b)
+		: "+d" (cc), "=m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
 		: "d" (chsc_area), "m" (*(addr_type *) chsc_area)
 		: "cc");
 	trace_s390_cio_chsc(chsc_area, cc);