On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 05:55:22PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 06:21:03PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote: > > From: Patrick Roy <roypat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > 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/ > > > > Fixes: 1507f51255c9 ("mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas") > > Signed-off-by: Patrick Roy <roypat@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > mm/secretmem.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > What is the git id of this change in Linus's tree? 532b53cebe58f34ce1c0f34d866f5c0e335c53c6 -- Sincerely yours, Mike.
