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There is no nesting of >>> poisoned pages. >>> >>> Poisoned ranges are NOT cleared by MADV_DONTNEED, as this would be rather >>> unexpected behaviour, but are cleared on process teardown or unmapping of >>> memory ranges. >>> >>> Ranges can have the poison property removed by MADV_GUARD_UNPOISON - >>> 'remedying' the poisoning. The ranges over which this is applied, should >>> they contain non-poison entries, will be untouched, only poison entries >>> will be cleared. >>> >>> We permit this operation on anonymous memory only, and only VMAs which are >>> non-special, non-huge and not mlock()'d (if we permitted this we'd have to >>> drop locked pages which would be rather counterintuitive). >>> >>> Suggested-by: Vlastimil Babka >>> Suggested-by: Jann Horn >>> Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand >>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes >>> --- >>> arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 3 + >>> arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 3 + >>> arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 3 + >>> arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h | 3 + >>> include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h | 3 + >>> mm/madvise.c | 168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> mm/mprotect.c | 3 +- >>> mm/mseal.c | 1 + >>> 8 files changed, 186 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h >>> index 763929e814e9..71e13f27742d 100644 >>> --- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h >>> +++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/mman.h >>> @@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ >>> #define MADV_COLLAPSE 25 /* Synchronous hugepage collapse */ >>> +#define MADV_GUARD_POISON 102 /* fatal signal on access to range */ >>> +#define MADV_GUARD_UNPOISON 103 /* revoke guard poisoning */ >> >> Just to raise it here: MADV_GUARD_INSTALL / MADV_GUARD_REMOVE or sth. like >> that would have been even clearer, at least to me. > > :) > > It still feels like poisoning to me because we're explicitly putting > something in the page tables to make a range have different fault behaviour > like a HW poisoning, and 'installing' suggests backing or something like > this, I think that's more confusing. I connect "poison" to "SIGBUS" and "corrupt memory state", not to "there is nothing and there must not be anything". Thus my thinking. But again, not the end of the world, just wanted to raise it ... > >> >> But no strong opinion, just if somebody else reading along was wondering >> about the same. >> >> >> I'm hoping to find more time to have a closer look at this this week, but in >> general, the concept sounds reasonable to me. > > Thanks! Thank you for implementing this and up-streaming it! -- Cheers, David / dhildenb