[PATCH v4 02/12] mm/memfd: Introduce MFD_INACCESSIBLE flag

From: Chao Peng
Date: Tue Jan 18 2022 - 08:22:22 EST


Introduce a new memfd_create() flag indicating the content of the
created memfd is inaccessible from userspace. It does this by force
setting F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE seal when the file is created. It also set
F_SEAL_SEAL to prevent future sealing, which means, it can not coexist
with MFD_ALLOW_SEALING.

The pages backed by such memfd will be used as guest private memory in
confidential computing environments such as Intel TDX/AMD SEV. Since
page migration/swapping is not yet supported for such usages so these
pages are currently marked as UNMOVABLE and UNEVICTABLE which makes
them behave like long-term pinned pages.

Signed-off-by: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/uapi/linux/memfd.h | 1 +
mm/memfd.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/memfd.h b/include/uapi/linux/memfd.h
index 7a8a26751c23..48750474b904 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/memfd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/memfd.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#define MFD_CLOEXEC 0x0001U
#define MFD_ALLOW_SEALING 0x0002U
#define MFD_HUGETLB 0x0004U
+#define MFD_INACCESSIBLE 0x0008U

/*
* Huge page size encoding when MFD_HUGETLB is specified, and a huge page
diff --git a/mm/memfd.c b/mm/memfd.c
index 9f80f162791a..26998d96dc11 100644
--- a/mm/memfd.c
+++ b/mm/memfd.c
@@ -245,16 +245,19 @@ long memfd_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
#define MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof(MFD_NAME_PREFIX) - 1)
#define MFD_NAME_MAX_LEN (NAME_MAX - MFD_NAME_PREFIX_LEN)

-#define MFD_ALL_FLAGS (MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_HUGETLB)
+#define MFD_ALL_FLAGS (MFD_CLOEXEC | MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_HUGETLB | \
+ MFD_INACCESSIBLE)

SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
const char __user *, uname,
unsigned int, flags)
{
+ struct address_space *mapping;
unsigned int *file_seals;
struct file *file;
int fd, error;
char *name;
+ gfp_t gfp;
long len;

if (!(flags & MFD_HUGETLB)) {
@@ -267,6 +270,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
return -EINVAL;
}

+ /* Disallow sealing when MFD_INACCESSIBLE is set. */
+ if (flags & MFD_INACCESSIBLE && flags & MFD_ALLOW_SEALING)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
/* length includes terminating zero */
len = strnlen_user(uname, MFD_NAME_MAX_LEN + 1);
if (len <= 0)
@@ -315,6 +322,17 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
*file_seals &= ~F_SEAL_SEAL;
}

+ if (flags & MFD_INACCESSIBLE) {
+ mapping = file_inode(file)->i_mapping;
+ gfp = mapping_gfp_mask(mapping);
+ gfp &= ~__GFP_MOVABLE;
+ mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, gfp);
+ mapping_set_unevictable(mapping);
+
+ file_seals = memfd_file_seals_ptr(file);
+ *file_seals &= F_SEAL_SEAL | F_SEAL_INACCESSIBLE;
+ }
+
fd_install(fd, file);
kfree(name);
return fd;
--
2.17.1