Huge pages are not normally available to PV guests. Not suppressing
hugetlbfs use results in an endless loop of page faults when user mode
code tries to access a hugetlbfs mapped area (since the hypervisor
denies such PTEs to be created, but error indications can't be
propagated out of xen_set_pte_at(), just like for various of its
siblings), and - once killed in an oops like this:
kernel BUG at .../fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:428!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
RIP: e030:[<
ffffffff811c333b>] [<
ffffffff811c333b>] remove_inode_hugepages+0x25b/0x320
...
Call Trace:
[<
ffffffff811c3415>] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x15/0x40
[<
ffffffff81167b3d>] evict+0xbd/0x1b0
[<
ffffffff8116514a>] __dentry_kill+0x19a/0x1f0
[<
ffffffff81165b0e>] dput+0x1fe/0x220
[<
ffffffff81150535>] __fput+0x155/0x200
[<
ffffffff81079fc0>] task_work_run+0x60/0xa0
[<
ffffffff81063510>] do_exit+0x160/0x400
[<
ffffffff810637eb>] do_group_exit+0x3b/0xa0
[<
ffffffff8106e8bd>] get_signal+0x1ed/0x470
[<
ffffffff8100f854>] do_signal+0x14/0x110
[<
ffffffff810030e9>] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xe9/0xf0
[<
ffffffff814178a5>] retint_user+0x8/0x13
This is CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174.
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57188ED802000078000E431C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm-generic/hugetlb.h>
+#define hugepages_supported() cpu_has_pse
static inline int is_hugepage_only_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long addr,