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Date:   Fri, 2 Sep 2022 18:27:57 +0800
From:   Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
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        Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 00/14] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM
 guest private memory

On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 05:24:39PM +0300, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 10:15:32PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > I will try next week to rework it as shim to top of shmem. Does it work
> > > for you?
> > 
> > Yes, please do, thanks.  It's a compromise between us: the initial TDX
> > case has no justification to use shmem at all, but doing it that way
> > will help you with some of the infrastructure, and will probably be
> > easiest for KVM to extend to other more relaxed fd cases later.
> 
> Okay, below is my take on the shim approach.
> 
> I don't hate how it turned out. It is easier to understand without
> callback exchange thing.
> 
> The only caveat is I had to introduce external lock to protect against
> race between lookup and truncate. Otherwise, looks pretty reasonable to me.
> 
> I did very limited testing. And it lacks integration with KVM, but API
> changed not substantially, any it should be easy to adopt.

I have integrated this patch with other KVM patches and verified the
functionality works well in TDX environment with a minor fix below.

> 
> Any comments?
> 

...

> diff --git a/mm/memfd.c b/mm/memfd.c
> index 08f5f8304746..1853a90f49ff 100644
> --- a/mm/memfd.c
> +++ b/mm/memfd.c
> @@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ long memfd_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>  #define MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof(MFD_NAME_PREFIX) - 1)
>  #define MFD_NAME_MAX_LEN (NAME_MAX - MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN)
>  
> -#define MFD_ALL_FLAGS (MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_HUGETLB)
> +#define MFD_ALL_FLAGS (MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_HUGETLB | \
> +		       MFD_INACCESSIBLE)
>  
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
>  		const char __user *, uname,
> @@ -283,6 +284,14 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
>  			return -EINVAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	/* Disallow sealing when MFD_INACCESSIBLE is set. */
> +	if ((flags & MFD_INACCESSIBLE) && (flags & MFD_ALLOW_SEALING))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* TODO: add hugetlb support */
> +	if ((flags & MFD_INACCESSIBLE) && (flags & MFD_HUGETLB))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	/* length includes terminating zero */
>  	len = strnlen_user(uname, MFD_NAME_MAX_LEN + 1);
>  	if (len <= 0)
> @@ -331,10 +340,24 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
>  		*file_seals &= ~F_SEAL_SEAL;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (flags & MFD_INACCESSIBLE) {
> +		struct file *inaccessible_file;
> +
> +		inaccessible_file = memfd_mkinaccessible(file);
> +		if (IS_ERR(inaccessible_file)) {
> +			error = PTR_ERR(inaccessible_file);
> +			goto err_file;
> +		}

The new file should alse be marked as O_LARGEFILE otherwise setting the
initial size greater than 2^31 on the fd will be refused by ftruncate().

+               inaccessible_file->f_flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
+

> +
> +		file = inaccessible_file;
> +	}
> +
>  	fd_install(fd, file);
>  	kfree(name);
>  	return fd;
>  
> +err_file:
> +	fput(file);
>  err_fd:
>  	put_unused_fd(fd);
>  err_name: