[PATCH v14 05/10] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas

[Mike Rapoport]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 04:02:10PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:05:10PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:22:13PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:29:44AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > +static vm_fault_t secretmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	struct address_space *mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
> > > > +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file);
> > > > +	pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
> > > > +	vm_fault_t ret = 0;
> > > > +	unsigned long addr;
> > > > +	struct page *page;
> > > > +	int err;
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (((loff_t)vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) >= i_size_read(inode))
> > > > +		return vmf_error(-EINVAL);
> > > > +
> > > > +	page = find_get_page(mapping, offset);
> > > > +	if (!page) {
> > > > +
> > > > +		page = secretmem_alloc_page(vmf->gfp_mask);
> > > > +		if (!page)
> > > > +			return vmf_error(-ENOMEM);
> > > 
> > > Just use VM_FAULT_OOM directly.
> >  
> > Ok.
> > 
> > > > +		err = add_to_page_cache(page, mapping, offset, vmf->gfp_mask);
> > > > +		if (unlikely(err))
> > > > +			goto err_put_page;
> > > 
> > > What if the error is EEXIST because somebody else raced with you to add
> > > a new page to the page cache?
> > 
> > Right, for -EEXIST I need a retry here, thanks.
> > 
> > > > +		err = set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(page, 1);
> > > > +		if (err)
> > > > +			goto err_del_page_cache;
> > > 
> > > Does this work correctly if somebody else has a reference to the page
> > > in the meantime?
> > 
> > Yes, it does. If somebody else won the race that page was dropped from the
> > direct map and this call would be essentially a nop. And anyway, the very
> > next patch changes the way pages are removed from the direct map ;-)
> 
> What I'm thinking is:
> 
> thread A page faults
> doesn't find page
> allocates page
> adds page to page cache
> 				thread B page faults
> 				does find page in page cache
> set direct map invalid fails
> deletes from page cache
> 				... ?

Hmm, this is not nice indeed...

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.