From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: virtio-mem: use page_offline_(start|end) when setting PageOffline() Let's properly use page_offline_(start|end) to synchronize setting PageOffline(), so we won't have valid page access to unplugged memory regions from /proc/kcore. Existing balloon implementations usually allow reading inflated memory; doing so might result in unnecessary overhead in the hypervisor, which is currently the case with virtio-mem. For future virtio-mem use cases, it will be different when using shmem, huge pages, !anonymous private mappings, ... as backing storage for a VM. virtio-mem unplugged memory must no longer be accessed and access might result in undefined behavior. There will be a virtio spec extension to document this change, including a new feature flag indicating the changed behavior. We really don't want to race against PFN walkers reading random page content. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-6-david@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> Cc: Aili Yao <yaoaili@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@xxxxxxx> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@xxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c~virtio-mem-use-page_offline_startend-when-setting-pageoffline +++ a/drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c @@ -1065,6 +1065,7 @@ static int virtio_mem_memory_notifier_cb static void virtio_mem_set_fake_offline(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, bool onlined) { + page_offline_begin(); for (; nr_pages--; pfn++) { struct page *page = pfn_to_page(pfn); @@ -1075,6 +1076,7 @@ static void virtio_mem_set_fake_offline( ClearPageReserved(page); } } + page_offline_end(); } /* _