From: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:19:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221017161955.t4gditaztbwijgcn@box.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de680280-f6b1-9337-2ae4-4b2faf2b823b@suse.cz>
On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 9/15/22 16:29, Chao Peng wrote:
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > KVM can use memfd-provided memory for guest memory. For normal userspace
> > accessible memory, KVM userspace (e.g. QEMU) mmaps the memfd into its
> > virtual address space and then tells KVM to use the virtual address to
> > setup the mapping in the secondary page table (e.g. EPT).
> >
> > With confidential computing technologies like Intel TDX, the
> > memfd-provided memory may be encrypted with special key for special
> > software domain (e.g. KVM guest) and is not expected to be directly
> > accessed by userspace. Precisely, userspace access to such encrypted
> > memory may lead to host crash so it should be prevented.
> >
> > This patch introduces userspace inaccessible memfd (created with
> > MFD_INACCESSIBLE). Its memory is inaccessible from userspace through
> > ordinary MMU access (e.g. read/write/mmap) but can be accessed via
> > in-kernel interface so KVM can directly interact with core-mm without
> > the need to map the memory into KVM userspace.
> >
> > It provides semantics required for KVM guest private(encrypted) memory
> > support that a file descriptor with this flag set is going to be used as
> > the source of guest memory in confidential computing environments such
> > as Intel TDX/AMD SEV.
> >
> > KVM userspace is still in charge of the lifecycle of the memfd. It
> > should pass the opened fd to KVM. KVM uses the kernel APIs newly added
> > in this patch to obtain the physical memory address and then populate
> > the secondary page table entries.
> >
> > The userspace inaccessible memfd can be fallocate-ed and hole-punched
> > from userspace. When hole-punching happens, KVM can get notified through
> > inaccessible_notifier it then gets chance to remove any mapped entries
> > of the range in the secondary page tables.
> >
> > The userspace inaccessible memfd itself is implemented as a shim layer
> > on top of real memory file systems like tmpfs/hugetlbfs but this patch
> > only implemented tmpfs. The allocated memory is currently marked as
> > unmovable and unevictable, this is required for current confidential
> > usage. But in future this might be changed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
>
> ...
>
> > +static long inaccessible_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode,
> > + loff_t offset, loff_t len)
> > +{
> > + struct inaccessible_data *data = file->f_mapping->private_data;
> > + struct file *memfd = data->memfd;
> > + int ret;
> > +
> > + if (mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) {
> > + if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(offset) || !PAGE_ALIGNED(len))
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > + }
> > +
> > + ret = memfd->f_op->fallocate(memfd, mode, offset, len);
> > + inaccessible_notifier_invalidate(data, offset, offset + len);
>
> Wonder if invalidate should precede the actual hole punch, otherwise we open
> a window where the page tables point to memory no longer valid?
Yes, you are right. Thanks for catching this.
> > + return ret;
> > +}
> > +
>
> ...
>
> > +
> > +static struct file_system_type inaccessible_fs = {
> > + .owner = THIS_MODULE,
> > + .name = "[inaccessible]",
>
> Dunno where exactly is this name visible, but shouldn't it better be
> "[memfd:inaccessible]"?
Maybe. And skip brackets.
>
> > + .init_fs_context = inaccessible_init_fs_context,
> > + .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
> > +};
> > +
>
--
Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-17 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-15 14:29 [PATCH v8 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd Chao Peng
2022-09-19 9:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-19 19:10 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-21 21:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-09-22 13:23 ` Wang, Wei W
2022-09-23 15:20 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-23 15:19 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:23 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-26 15:51 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-27 22:47 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-30 16:19 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-13 13:34 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 10:31 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-17 14:58 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 19:05 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-19 13:30 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-18 0:33 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 15:04 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-23 0:58 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-09-26 10:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-26 14:48 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-09-26 14:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-27 23:23 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-28 13:36 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-09-22 13:26 ` Wang, Wei W
2022-09-22 19:49 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-23 0:53 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-09-23 15:20 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-30 16:14 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-30 16:23 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-03 7:33 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-03 11:01 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-10-04 15:39 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06 8:50 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06 13:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-10-17 13:00 ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-10-17 16:19 ` Kirill A . Shutemov [this message]
2022-10-17 16:39 ` Gupta, Pankaj
2022-10-17 21:56 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-18 13:42 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-19 15:32 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-20 10:50 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-21 13:54 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-21 16:53 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 12:23 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-21 13:47 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-21 16:18 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-24 14:59 ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-24 15:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-11-03 16:27 ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory Chao Peng
2022-09-16 9:14 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-09-16 9:53 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-26 10:26 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:04 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-29 22:45 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-09-29 23:22 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-05 13:04 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-05 22:05 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06 9:00 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06 14:58 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06 15:07 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06 15:34 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-07 11:14 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-07 14:58 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-07 21:54 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-08 16:15 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-08 17:35 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-10 8:25 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-12 8:14 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit Chao Peng
2022-09-16 9:17 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-09-16 9:54 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] KVM: Use gfn instead of hva for mmu_notifier_retry Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] KVM: Register/unregister the guest private memory regions Chao Peng
2022-09-26 10:36 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:07 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-11 9:48 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-12 2:35 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 10:15 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-17 22:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 13:23 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-19 15:02 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-19 16:09 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 18:32 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] KVM: Update lpage info when private/shared memory are mixed Chao Peng
2022-09-29 16:52 ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-09-30 8:59 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] KVM: Handle page fault for private memory Chao Peng
2022-10-14 18:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-17 14:48 ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] KVM: Enable and expose KVM_MEM_PRIVATE Chao Peng
2022-10-04 14:55 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-10 8:31 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-06 8:55 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-10 8:33 ` Chao Peng
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