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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: add MAP_EXCLUSIVE to create exclusive user
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:02:34 +0100
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On 27.10.19 11:17, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
>=20
> The mappings created with MAP_EXCLUSIVE are visible only in the context o=
f
> the owning process and can be used by applications to store secret
> information that will not be visible not only to other processes but to t=
he
> kernel as well.
>=20
> The pages in these mappings are removed from the kernel direct map and
> marked with PG_user_exclusive flag. When the exclusive area is unmapped,
> the pages are mapped back into the direct map.
>=20

Just a thought, the kernel is still able to indirectly read the contents=20
of these pages by doing a kdump from kexec environment, right?. Also, I=20
wonder what would happen if you map such pages via /dev/mem into another=20
user space application and e.g., use them along with kvm [1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/778240/

--=20

Thanks,

David / dhildenb