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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	martin.lau@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Yi Lai <yi1.lai@intel.com>,
	pbonzini@redhat.com, seanjc@google.com, tabba@google.com,
	jackmanb@google.com, yosryahmed@google.com, jannh@google.com,
	rppt@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] lib/buildid: handle memfd_secret() files in build_id_parse()
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:41:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ce32d37-18ef-493d-a698-42ee8a7421ab@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d62whv7kff5yshsyzkykgxpgfycfivygyhlqwifvudnj5adun7@kqd6hcsbmee6>

On 17.10.24 18:22, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 11:17:19AM GMT, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 16.10.24 20:39, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>> Ccing couple more folks who are doing similar work (ASI, guest_memfd)
>>>
>>> Folks, what is the generic way to check if a given mapping has folios
>>> unmapped from kernel address space?
>>
>>
>> Can't we just lookup the mapping and refuse these folios that really
>> shouldn't be looked at?
>>
>> See gup_fast_folio_allowed() where we refuse secretmem_mapping().
> 
> That is exactly what this patch is doing. See [1].

Hah! I should have looked at the full patch not just the discussion 
where I was CCed :)

> The reason I asked
> this question was because I see parallel efforts related to guest_memfd
> and ASI are going to unmap folios from direct map. (Yosry already
> explained ASI is a bit different). We want a more robust and future
> proof solution.

There was a discussion a while ago about having the abstraction of 
inaccessible mappings.

See 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/c87a4ba0-b9c4-4044-b0c3-c1112601494f@redhat.com/

It would be a more future-proof replacement of the secretmem checks.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb



      reply	other threads:[~2024-10-17 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-14 23:56 Andrii Nakryiko
2024-10-15  0:00 ` Shakeel Butt
2024-10-16 18:39 ` Shakeel Butt
2024-10-16 19:59   ` Yosry Ahmed
2024-10-16 21:45     ` Shakeel Butt
2024-10-17  9:17   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-10-17 16:22     ` Shakeel Butt
2024-10-17 17:41       ` David Hildenbrand [this message]

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