[PATCH RFC v5 40/53] KVM: selftests: Test that shared/private status is consistent across processes

Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay
2026-04-28T23:25:20Z

From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>

Add a test to verify that a guest_memfd's shared/private status is
consistent across processes, and that any shared pages previously mapped in
any process are unmapped from all processes.

The test forks a child process after creating the shared guest_memfd
region so that the second process exists alongside the main process for the
entire test.

The processes then take turns to access memory to check that the
shared/private status is consistent across processes.

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Co-developed-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com>
---
.../kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
index 8dfbf3630cec2..21918b83d3792 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/guest_memfd_conversions_test.c
@@ -334,6 +334,80 @@ GMEM_CONVERSION_TEST_INIT_SHARED(truncate)
test_private(t, 0, 0, 'A');
}

+/* Test that shared/private memory protections work and are seen from any process. */
+GMEM_CONVERSION_TEST_INIT_SHARED(forked_accesses)
+{
+ /*
+ * No races are intended in this test, shared memory is only used to
+ * coordinate between processes.
+ */
+ static enum {
+ STATE_INIT,
+ STATE_CHECK_SHARED,
+ STATE_DONE_CHECKING_SHARED,
+ STATE_CHECK_PRIVATE,
+ STATE_DONE_CHECKING_PRIVATE,
+ } *test_state;
+ pid_t child_pid;
+
+ test_state = kvm_mmap(sizeof(*test_state), PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+ MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1);
+
+#define TEST_STATE_AWAIT(__state) \
+ while (READ_ONCE(*test_state) != __state) { \
+ if (child_pid != 0) { \
+ int status; \
+ pid_t pid; \
+ do { \
+ pid = waitpid(child_pid, &status, WNOHANG); \
+ } while (pid == -1 && errno == EINTR); \
+ if (pid == -1) \
+ TEST_FAIL("Couldn't check child status."); \
+ else if (pid != 0) \
+ TEST_FAIL("Child exited prematurely."); \
+ } \
+ }
+
+#define TEST_STATE_SET(__state) WRITE_ONCE(*test_state, __state)
+
+ child_pid = fork();
+ TEST_ASSERT(child_pid != -1, "fork failed");
+
+ if (child_pid == 0) {
+ const char inconsequential = 0xdd;
+
+ TEST_STATE_AWAIT(STATE_CHECK_SHARED);
+
+ /*
+ * This maps the pages into the child process as well, and tests
+ * that the conversion process will unmap the guest_memfd memory
+ * from all processes.
+ */
+ host_do_rmw(t->mem, 0, 0xB, 0xC);
+
+ TEST_STATE_SET(STATE_DONE_CHECKING_SHARED);
+ TEST_STATE_AWAIT(STATE_CHECK_PRIVATE);
+
+ TEST_EXPECT_SIGBUS(READ_ONCE(t->mem[0]));
+ TEST_EXPECT_SIGBUS(WRITE_ONCE(t->mem[0], inconsequential));
+
+ TEST_STATE_SET(STATE_DONE_CHECKING_PRIVATE);
+ exit(0);
+ }
+
+ test_shared(t, 0, 0, 0xA, 0xB);
+
+ TEST_STATE_SET(STATE_CHECK_SHARED);
+ TEST_STATE_AWAIT(STATE_DONE_CHECKING_SHARED);
+
+ test_convert_to_private(t, 0, 0xC, 0xD);
+
+ TEST_STATE_SET(STATE_CHECK_PRIVATE);
+ TEST_STATE_AWAIT(STATE_DONE_CHECKING_PRIVATE);
+
+ kvm_munmap(test_state, sizeof(*test_state));
+}
+
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
TEST_REQUIRE(kvm_check_cap(KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES) & BIT(KVM_X86_SW_PROTECTED_VM));

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