From: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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:[<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@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Juergen Gross <JGross@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57188ED802000078000E431C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- 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 68c05398bba9..7aadd3cea843 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ #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, -- 2.10.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html