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    x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests · 936d0871
    Jan Beulich authored
    [ Upstream commit 103f6112 ]
    
    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: default avatarVitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan 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.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
    936d0871
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