From 103f6112f253017d7062cd74d17f4a514ed4485c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Beulich Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:27:04 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests 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:[] [] remove_inode_hugepages+0x25b/0x320 ... Call Trace: [] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x15/0x40 [] evict+0xbd/0x1b0 [] __dentry_kill+0x19a/0x1f0 [] dput+0x1fe/0x220 [] __fput+0x155/0x200 [] task_work_run+0x60/0xa0 [] do_exit+0x160/0x400 [] do_group_exit+0x3b/0xa0 [] get_signal+0x1ed/0x470 [] do_signal+0x14/0x110 [] prepare_exit_to_usermode+0xe9/0xf0 [] retint_user+0x8/0x13 This is CVE-2016-3961 / XSA-174. Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Toshi Kani Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: xen-devel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57188ED802000078000E431C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h index f8a29d2c97b0..e6a8613fbfb0 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #include #include +#define hugepages_supported() cpu_has_pse static inline int is_hugepage_only_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, -- 2.20.1