1 files changed, 5 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
index cecf38b9ec82..511b2cc9b91a 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
 /* Symbols defined by linker scripts */
 extern char input_data[];
 extern int input_len;
-extern char _text, _end;
-extern char _bss, _ebss;
+extern char _end[];
+extern char _bss[], _ebss[];
 
 static void error(char *m);
 
@@ -119,34 +119,12 @@ static void error(char *x)
 	asm volatile("lpsw %0" : : "Q" (psw));
 }
 
-/*
- * Safe guard the ipl parameter block against a memory area that will be
- * overwritten. The validity check for the ipl parameter block is complex
- * (see cio_get_iplinfo and ipl_save_parameters) but if the pointer to
- * the ipl parameter block intersects with the passed memory area we can
- * safely assume that we can read from that memory. In that case just copy
- * the memory to IPL_PARMBLOCK_ORIGIN even if there is no ipl parameter
- * block.
- */
-static void check_ipl_parmblock(void *start, unsigned long size)
-{
-	void *src, *dst;
-
-	src = (void *)(unsigned long) S390_lowcore.ipl_parmblock_ptr;
-	if (src + PAGE_SIZE <= start || src >= start + size)
-		return;
-	dst = (void *) IPL_PARMBLOCK_ORIGIN;
-	memmove(dst, src, PAGE_SIZE);
-	S390_lowcore.ipl_parmblock_ptr = IPL_PARMBLOCK_ORIGIN;
-}
-
 unsigned long decompress_kernel(void)
 {
 	void *output, *kernel_end;
 
-	output = (void *) ALIGN((unsigned long) &_end + HEAP_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
+	output = (void *) ALIGN((unsigned long) _end + HEAP_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE);
 	kernel_end = output + SZ__bss_start;
-	check_ipl_parmblock((void *) 0, (unsigned long) kernel_end);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
 	/*
@@ -156,7 +134,6 @@ unsigned long decompress_kernel(void)
 	 * current bss section..
 	 */
 	if (INITRD_START && INITRD_SIZE && kernel_end > (void *) INITRD_START) {
-		check_ipl_parmblock(kernel_end, INITRD_SIZE);
 		memmove(kernel_end, (void *) INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE);
 		INITRD_START = (unsigned long) kernel_end;
 	}
@@ -166,8 +143,8 @@ unsigned long decompress_kernel(void)
 	 * Clear bss section. free_mem_ptr and free_mem_end_ptr need to be
 	 * initialized afterwards since they reside in bss.
 	 */
-	memset(&_bss, 0, &_ebss - &_bss);
-	free_mem_ptr = (unsigned long) &_end;
+	memset(_bss, 0, _ebss - _bss);
+	free_mem_ptr = (unsigned long) _end;
 	free_mem_end_ptr = free_mem_ptr + HEAP_SIZE;
 
 	__decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, 0, NULL, error);