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Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:56:53 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 kvm/queue 01/16] mm/shmem: Introduce
 F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE
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To:     Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
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        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
        qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
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        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
        "J . Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Yu Zhang <yu.c.zhang@linux.intel.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
        luto@kernel.org, john.ji@intel.com, susie.li@intel.com,
        jun.nakajima@intel.com, dave.hansen@intel.com, ak@linux.intel.com
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 <20220106130638.GB43371@chaop.bj.intel.com>
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
In-Reply-To: <20220106130638.GB43371@chaop.bj.intel.com>
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On 06.01.22 14:06, Chao Peng wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 03:22:07PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 23.12.21 13:29, Chao Peng wrote:
>>> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> Introduce a new seal F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE indicating the content of
>>> the file is inaccessible from userspace in any possible ways like
>>> read(),write() or mmap() etc.
>>>
>>> It provides semantics required for KVM guest private memory support
>>> that a file descriptor with this seal set is going to be used as the
>>> source of guest memory in confidential computing environments such
>>> as Intel TDX/AMD SEV but may not be accessible from host userspace.
>>>
>>> At this time only shmem implements this seal.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com>
>>> ---
>>>  include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h |  1 +
>>>  mm/shmem.c                 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>  2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>>> index 2f86b2ad6d7e..e2bad051936f 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>>> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
>>>  #define F_SEAL_GROW	0x0004	/* prevent file from growing */
>>>  #define F_SEAL_WRITE	0x0008	/* prevent writes */
>>>  #define F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE	0x0010  /* prevent future writes while mapped */
>>> +#define F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE	0x0020  /* prevent file from accessing */
>>
>> I think this needs more clarification: the file content can still be
>> accessed using in-kernel mechanisms such as MEMFD_OPS for KVM. It
>> effectively disallows traditional access to a file (read/write/mmap)
>> that will result in ordinary MMU access to file content.
>>
>> Not sure how to best clarify that: maybe, prevent ordinary MMU access
>> (e.g., read/write/mmap) to file content?
> 
> Or: prevent userspace access (e.g., read/write/mmap) to file content?

The issue with that phrasing is that userspace will be able to access
that content, just via a different mechanism eventually ... e.g., via
the KVM MMU indirectly. If that makes it clearer what I mean :)

>>
>>>  /* (1U << 31) is reserved for signed error codes */
>>>  
>>>  /*
>>> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
>>> index 18f93c2d68f1..faa7e9b1b9bc 100644
>>> --- a/mm/shmem.c
>>> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
>>> @@ -1098,6 +1098,10 @@ static int shmem_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
>>>  		    (newsize > oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW)))
>>>  			return -EPERM;
>>>  
>>> +		if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE) &&
>>> +		    (newsize & ~PAGE_MASK))
>>> +			return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>
>> What happens when sealing and there are existing mmaps?
> 
> I think this is similar to ftruncate, in either case we just allow that.
> The existing mmaps will be unmapped and KVM will be notified to
> invalidate the mapping in the secondary MMU as well. This assume we
> trust the userspace even though it can not access the file content.

Can't we simply check+forbid instead?

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb