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[gmem,5/6] KVM: guest_memfd: Use AS_INACCESSIBLE when creating guest_memfd inode

Message ID 20240329212444.395559-6-michael.roth@amd.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series gmem fix-ups and interfaces for populating gmem pages | expand

Commit Message

Michael Roth March 29, 2024, 9:24 p.m. UTC
truncate_inode_pages_range() may attempt to zero pages before truncating
them, and this will occur before arch-specific invalidations can be
triggered via .invalidate_folio/.free_folio hooks via kvm_gmem_aops. For
AMD SEV-SNP this would result in an RMP #PF being generated by the
hardware, which is currently treated as fatal (and even if specifically
allowed for, would not result in anything other than garbage being
written to guest pages due to encryption). On Intel TDX this would also
result in undesirable behavior.

Set the AS_INACCESSIBLE flag to prevent the MM from attempting
unexpected accesses of this sort during operations like truncation.

This may also in some cases yield a decent performance improvement for
guest_memfd userspace implementations that hole-punch ranges immediately
after private->shared conversions via KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES, since
the current implementation of truncate_inode_pages_range() always ends
up zero'ing an entire 4K range if it is backing by a 2M folio.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZR9LYhpxTaTk6PJX@google.com/
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
---
 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Vlastimil Babka April 15, 2024, 1:21 p.m. UTC | #1
On 3/29/24 10:24 PM, Michael Roth wrote:
> truncate_inode_pages_range() may attempt to zero pages before truncating
> them, and this will occur before arch-specific invalidations can be
> triggered via .invalidate_folio/.free_folio hooks via kvm_gmem_aops. For
> AMD SEV-SNP this would result in an RMP #PF being generated by the
> hardware, which is currently treated as fatal (and even if specifically
> allowed for, would not result in anything other than garbage being
> written to guest pages due to encryption). On Intel TDX this would also
> result in undesirable behavior.
> 
> Set the AS_INACCESSIBLE flag to prevent the MM from attempting
> unexpected accesses of this sort during operations like truncation.
> 
> This may also in some cases yield a decent performance improvement for
> guest_memfd userspace implementations that hole-punch ranges immediately
> after private->shared conversions via KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES, since
> the current implementation of truncate_inode_pages_range() always ends
> up zero'ing an entire 4K range if it is backing by a 2M folio.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZR9LYhpxTaTk6PJX@google.com/
> Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>  virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 4ce0056d1149..3668a5f1d82b 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -428,6 +428,7 @@ static int __kvm_gmem_create(struct kvm *kvm, loff_t size, u64 flags)
>  	inode->i_private = (void *)(unsigned long)flags;
>  	inode->i_op = &kvm_gmem_iops;
>  	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &kvm_gmem_aops;
> +	inode->i_mapping->flags |= AS_INACCESSIBLE;
>  	inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG;
>  	inode->i_size = size;
>  	mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER);
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diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
index 4ce0056d1149..3668a5f1d82b 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
@@ -428,6 +428,7 @@  static int __kvm_gmem_create(struct kvm *kvm, loff_t size, u64 flags)
 	inode->i_private = (void *)(unsigned long)flags;
 	inode->i_op = &kvm_gmem_iops;
 	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &kvm_gmem_aops;
+	inode->i_mapping->flags |= AS_INACCESSIBLE;
 	inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG;
 	inode->i_size = size;
 	mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER);