Thread (164 messages) 164 messages, 20 authors, 2023-05-25

Re: [PATCH v7 01/14] mm: Add F_SEAL_AUTO_ALLOCATE seal to memfd

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2022-08-05 18:06:13
Also in: kvm, linux-doc, linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml, qemu-devel

On 05.08.22 19:55, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 7/21/22 11:44, David Hildenbrand wrote:
quoted
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().
Yeah, userfaultfd_register would probably have to forbid this for 
F_SEAL_AUTO_ALLOCATE vmas.  Maybe the memfile_node can be reused for 
this, adding a new MEMFILE_F_NO_AUTO_ALLOCATE flags?  Then 
userfault_register would do something like 
memfile_node_get_flags(vma->vm_file) and check the result.
An alternative is to simply have the shmem allocation fail in a similar
way. Maybe it does already, I haven't checked (don't think so).


-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb
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