[PATCH v3 0/8] add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD

Axel Rasmussen
2023-07-06T22:50:52Z

This series adds a new userfaultfd feature, UFFDIO_POISON. See commit 4
for a detailed description of the feature.

The series is based on Linus master (partial 6.5 merge window), and
structured like this:

- Patches 1-3 are preparation / refactoring
- Patches 4-6 implement and advertise the new feature
- Patches 7-8 implement a unit test for the new feature

Changelog:

v2 -> v3:
- Rebase onto current Linus master.
- Don't overwrite existing PTE markers for non-hugetlb UFFDIO_POISON.
Before, non-hugetlb would override them, but hugetlb would not. I don't
think there's a use case where we *want* to override a UFFD_WP marker
for example, so take the more conservative behavior for all kinds of
memory.
- [Peter] Drop hugetlb mfill atomic refactoring, since it isn't needed
for this series (we don't touch that code directly anyway).
- [Peter] Switch to re-using PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR instead of defining
new PTE_MARKER_UFFD_POISON.
- [Peter] Extract start / len range overflow check into existing
validate_range helper; this fixes the style issue of unnecessary braces
in the UFFDIO_POISON implementation, because this code is just deleted.
- [Peter] Extract file size check out into a new helper.
- [Peter] Defer actually "enabling" the new feature until the last commit
in the series; combine this with adding the documentation. As a
consequence, move the selftest commits after this one.
- [Randy] Fix typo in documentation.

v1 -> v2:
- [Peter] Return VM_FAULT_HWPOISON not VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, to yield the
correct behavior for KVM (guest MCE).
- [Peter] Rename UFFDIO_SIGBUS to UFFDIO_POISON.
- [Peter] Implement hugetlbfs support for UFFDIO_POISON.

Axel Rasmussen (8):
mm: make PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR more general
mm: userfaultfd: check for start + len overflow in validate_range
mm: userfaultfd: extract file size check out into a helper
mm: userfaultfd: add new UFFDIO_POISON ioctl
mm: userfaultfd: support UFFDIO_POISON for hugetlbfs
mm: userfaultfd: document and enable new UFFDIO_POISON feature
selftests/mm: refactor uffd_poll_thread to allow custom fault handlers
selftests/mm: add uffd unit test for UFFDIO_POISON

Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 15 +++
fs/userfaultfd.c | 73 ++++++++++--
include/linux/mm_inline.h | 19 +++
include/linux/swapops.h | 10 +-
include/linux/userfaultfd_k.h | 4 +
include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 25 +++-
mm/hugetlb.c | 51 ++++++--
mm/madvise.c | 2 +-
mm/memory.c | 15 ++-
mm/mprotect.c | 4 +-
mm/shmem.c | 4 +-
mm/swapfile.c | 2 +-
mm/userfaultfd.c | 83 ++++++++++---
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.c | 5 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-common.h | 3 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-stress.c | 12 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/uffd-unit-tests.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++
17 files changed, 377 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)

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