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Re: [PATCH] fuse: mark DAX VMA page protections as decrypted

From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date: 2026-08-18 11:38:54
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[Cc:  Tom Lendacky + lists]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026 at 23:07, Punit Salian [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk
In confidential computing guest environments (such as AMD SEV-SNP or
Intel TDX), direct memory access (DAX) mappings between the guest kernel
and host-backed FUSE/virtiofs shared memory regions must be accessed
using shared (decrypted) page protections.

Modify fuse_dax_mmap() to apply pgprot_decrypted() to vma->vm_page_prot
when establishing FUSE DAX memory mappings. This ensures guest page
table entries for shared DAX buffers are explicitly marked as decrypted,
preventing memory encryption faults when accessing host-shared DAX memory.

Signed-off-by: Punit Salian <redacted>
---
 fs/fuse/dax.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dax.c b/fs/fuse/dax.c
index a15c464c8d19..00e316a7f805 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dax.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dax.c
@@ -826,6 +826,7 @@ int fuse_dax_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
        file_accessed(file);
        vma->vm_ops = &fuse_dax_vm_ops;
        vm_flags_set(vma, VM_MIXEDMAP | VM_HUGEPAGE);
+       vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_decrypted(vma->vm_page_prot);

        return 0;
 }
--
Needs review from someone understanding this technology.

Thanks,
Miklos
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