[PATCH v19 5/8] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas

[David Hildenbrand]

On 18.05.21 11:59, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Sun 16-05-21 10:29:24, Mike Rapoport wrote:
>> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:25:43AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> [...]
>>>> +		if (!page)
>>>> +			return VM_FAULT_OOM;
>>>> +
>>>> +		err = set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(page, 1);
>>>> +		if (err) {
>>>> +			put_page(page);
>>>> +			return vmf_error(err);
>>>
>>> Would we want to translate that to a proper VM_FAULT_..., which would most
>>> probably be VM_FAULT_OOM when we fail to allocate a pagetable?
>>
>> That's what vmf_error does, it translates -ESOMETHING to VM_FAULT_XYZ.
> 
> I haven't read through the rest but this has just caught my attention.
> Is it really reasonable to trigger the oom killer when you cannot
> invalidate the direct mapping. From a quick look at the code it is quite
> unlikely to se ENOMEM from that path (it allocates small pages) but this
> can become quite sublte over time. Shouldn't this simply SIGBUS if it
> cannot manipulate the direct mapping regardless of the underlying reason
> for that?
> 

OTOH, it means our kernel zones are depleted, so we'd better reclaim 
somehow ...

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb