On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 09:00:41 +0100 Patrick Roy <roypat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Return -ENOSYS from memfd_secret() syscall if !can_set_direct_map(). > This is the case for example on some arm64 configurations, where marking > 4k PTEs in the direct map not present can only be done if the direct map > is set up at 4k granularity in the first place (as ARM's > break-before-make semantics do not easily allow breaking apart > large/gigantic pages). > > More precisely, on arm64 systems with !can_set_direct_map(), > set_direct_map_invalid_noflush() is a no-op, however it returns success > (0) instead of an error. This means that memfd_secret will seemingly > "work" (e.g. syscall succeeds, you can mmap the fd and fault in pages), > but it does not actually achieve its goal of removing its memory from > the direct map. > > Note that with this patch, memfd_secret() will start erroring on systems > where can_set_direct_map() returns false (arm64 with > CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED=n, CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=n and > CONFIG_KFENCE=n), but that still seems better than the current silent > failure. Since CONFIG_RODATA_FULL_DEFAULT_ENABLED defaults to 'y', most > arm64 systems actually have a working memfd_secret() and aren't be > affected. > > >From going through the iterations of the original memfd_secret patch > series, it seems that disabling the syscall in these scenarios was the > intended behavior [1] (preferred over having > set_direct_map_invalid_noflush return an error as that would result in > SIGBUSes at page-fault time), however the check for it got dropped > between v16 [2] and v17 [3], when secretmem moved away from CMA > allocations. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201124164930.GK8537@xxxxxxxxxx/ > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210121122723.3446-11-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx/#t > [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201125092208.12544-10-rppt@xxxxxxxxxx/ Thanks. > Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas") So I'm thinking this fix should be backported into kernels which contain 1507f51255c9, agree?
