Patch "x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Commit Message

Greg Kroah-Hartman May 1, 2016, 10:17 p.m. UTC

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     x86-mm-xen-suppress-hugetlbfs-in-pv-guests.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[e-mail]> know about it.


From 103f6112f253017d7062cd74d17f4a514ed4485c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:27:04 -0600
Subject: x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests

From: Jan Beulich <[e-mail]>

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 <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[e-mail]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[e-mail]>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <[e-mail]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[e-mail]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[e-mail]>
Cc: David Vrabel <[e-mail]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[e-mail]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[e-mail]>
Cc: Juergen Gross <[e-mail]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[e-mail]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[e-mail]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[e-mail]>
Cc: Toshi Kani <[e-mail]>
Cc: xen-devel <[e-mail]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[e-mail]>

---
 arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)



Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [e-mail] are

queue-4.4/x86-mm-xen-suppress-hugetlbfs-in-pv-guests.patch

Patch

--- 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,