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Message-ID: <CAG48ez2R=Ov2Z9zn_W9+C3gHqOkPdQKAY=4SMWDUG=NfP=3eJw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2022 20:13:36 +0100
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@...aro.org>,
        "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@...hat.com>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 1/4] random: add vgetrandom_alloc() syscall

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 3:01 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com> wrote:
> +       mm->def_flags |=
> +               /*
> +                * Don't allow state to be written to swap, to preserve forward secrecy.
> +                * This works in conjunction with MAP_LOCKED in do_mmap(), below, which
> +                * actually does the locking (and associated permission check and accounting).
> +                * Here, VM_LOCKONFAULT together with VM_NORESERVE simply make the mlocking
> +                * happen the first time it's actually used, the same as when calling
> +                * mlock2(MLOCK_ONFAULT) from userspace.
> +                */
> +               VM_LOCKONFAULT | VM_NORESERVE |

Have you checked the interaction with this line in dup_mmap()?
"tmp->vm_flags &= ~(VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT);"

As the mlock.2 manpage says, "Memory locks are not inherited by a
child created via fork(2)". I think the intention here is that the VMA
should stay unswappable after fork(), right?

Of course, trying to reserve more mlocked memory in fork() would also
be problematic...

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