From 2ecc8cfb833a45c8df005209fbd6e0382cf3c0b1 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 commit 103f6112f253017d7062cd74d17f4a514ed4485c upstream. 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: xen-devel Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57188ED802000078000E431C@prv-mh.provo.novell.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed