linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 01/14] mm: Add F_SEAL_AUTO

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:27:03 +0200
From:   "Gupta, Pankaj" <pankaj.gupta@....com>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
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        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 01/14] mm: Add F_SEAL_AUTO_ALLOCATE seal to memfd


>> Normally, a write to unallocated space of a file or the hole of a sparse
>> file automatically causes space allocation, for memfd, this equals to
>> memory allocation. This new seal prevents such automatically allocating,
>> either this is from a direct write() or a write on the previously
>> mmap-ed area. The seal does not prevent fallocate() so an explicit
>> fallocate() can still cause allocating and can be used to reserve
>> memory.
>>
>> This is used to prevent unintentional allocation from userspace on a
>> stray or careless write and any intentional allocation should use an
>> explicit fallocate(). One of the main usecases is to avoid memory double
>> allocation for confidential computing usage where we use two memfds to
>> back guest memory and at a single point only one memfd is alive and we
>> want to prevent memory allocation for the other memfd which may have
>> been mmap-ed previously. More discussion can be found at:
>>
>>    https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/14/1255
>>
>> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>
>> ---
>>   include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h |  1 +
>>   mm/memfd.c                 |  3 ++-
>>   mm/shmem.c                 | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>>   3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> index 2f86b2ad6d7e..98bdabc8e309 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
>>   #define F_SEAL_GROW	0x0004	/* prevent file from growing */
>>   #define F_SEAL_WRITE	0x0008	/* prevent writes */
>>   #define F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE	0x0010  /* prevent future writes while mapped */
>> +#define F_SEAL_AUTO_ALLOCATE	0x0020  /* prevent allocation for writes */
> 
> Why only "on writes" and not "on reads". IIRC, shmem doesn't support the
> shared zeropage, so you'll simply allocate a new page via read() or on
> read faults.
> 
> 
> Also, I *think* you can place pages via userfaultfd into shmem. Not sure
> if that would count "auto alloc", but it would certainly bypass fallocate().

I was also thinking this at the same time, but for different reason:

"Want to populate private preboot memory with firmware payload", so was 
thinking userfaulftd could be an option as direct writes are restricted?

Thanks,
Pankaj