From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx> filemap users like guest_memfd may use page cache pages to allocate/manage memory that is only intended to be accessed by guests via hardware protections like encryption. Writes to memory of this sort in common paths like truncation may cause unexpected behavior such as writing garbage instead of zeros when attempting to zero pages, or worse, triggering hardware protections that are considered fatal as far as the kernel is concerned. Introduce a new address_space flag, AS_INACCESSIBLE, and use this initially to prevent zero'ing of pages during truncation, with the understanding that it is up to the owner of the mapping to handle this specially if needed. This is admittedly a rather blunt solution, but it seems like there are no other places that should take into account the flag to keep its promise. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZR9LYhpxTaTk6PJX@xxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20240329212444.395559-5-michael.roth@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/pagemap.h | 1 + mm/truncate.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h index 2df35e65557d..f879c1d54da7 100644 --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ enum mapping_flags { AS_STABLE_WRITES, /* must wait for writeback before modifying folio contents */ AS_UNMOVABLE, /* The mapping cannot be moved, ever */ + AS_INACCESSIBLE, /* Do not attempt direct R/W access to the mapping */ }; /** diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c index 725b150e47ac..c501338c7ebd 100644 --- a/mm/truncate.c +++ b/mm/truncate.c @@ -233,7 +233,8 @@ bool truncate_inode_partial_folio(struct folio *folio, loff_t start, loff_t end) * doing a complex calculation here, and then doing the zeroing * anyway if the page split fails. */ - folio_zero_range(folio, offset, length); + if (!(folio->mapping->flags & AS_INACCESSIBLE)) + folio_zero_range(folio, offset, length); if (folio_has_private(folio)) folio_invalidate(folio, offset, length); -- 2.43.0
