linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] arch, mm: improve robustness of direct map manipulation

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Message-ID: <30075bb8-caed-c4de-c09e-e0f6fb964a8d@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 09:15:47 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
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        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] arch, mm: improve robustness of direct map
 manipulation

On 25.10.20 11:15, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> During recent discussion about KVM protected memory, David raised a concern
> about usage of __kernel_map_pages() outside of DEBUG_PAGEALLOC scope [1].
> 
> Indeed, for architectures that define CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP it is
> possible that __kernel_map_pages() would fail, but since this function is
> void, the failure will go unnoticed.
> 
> Moreover, there's lack of consistency of __kernel_map_pages() semantics
> across architectures as some guard this function with
> #ifdef DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, some refuse to update the direct map if page
> allocation debugging is disabled at run time and some allow modifying the
> direct map regardless of DEBUG_PAGEALLOC settings.
> 
> This set straightens this out by restoring dependency of
> __kernel_map_pages() on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and updating the call sites
> accordingly.
> 

So, I was primarily wondering if we really have to touch direct mappings 
in hibernation code, or if we can avoid doing that. I was wondering if 
we cannot simply do something like kmap() when trying to access a 
!mapped page. Similar to reading old-os memory after kexec when in 
kdump. Just a thought.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb