Re: [PATCH v10 2/9] KVM: Introduce per-page memory attributes

On Wed, Feb 08, 2023, Isaku Yamahata wrote:

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022 at 02:13:40PM +0800,
Chao Peng [off-list ref] wrote:

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+static int kvm_vm_ioctl_set_mem_attributes(struct kvm *kvm,
+					   struct kvm_memory_attributes *attrs)
+{
+	gfn_t start, end;
+	unsigned long i;
+	void *entry;
+	u64 supported_attrs = kvm_supported_mem_attributes(kvm);
+
+	/* flags is currently not used. */
+	if (attrs->flags)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (attrs->attributes & ~supported_attrs)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (attrs->size == 0 || attrs->address + attrs->size < attrs->address)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->address) || !PAGE_ALIGNED(attrs->size))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	start = attrs->address >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+	end = (attrs->address + attrs->size - 1 + PAGE_SIZE) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	entry = attrs->attributes ? xa_mk_value(attrs->attributes) : NULL;
+
+	mutex_lock(&kvm->lock);
+	for (i = start; i < end; i++)
+		if (xa_err(xa_store(&kvm->mem_attr_array, i, entry,
+				    GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT)))
+			break;
+	mutex_unlock(&kvm->lock);
+
+	attrs->address = i << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	attrs->size = (end - i) << PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES */
+

If memslot isn't private, it should return error if private attribute is set.

Why?  I'd rather keep the two things separate.  If we enforce this sort of thing
at KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES, then we also have to enforce it at
KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION.