Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] mm/memfd: Introduce MFD_INACCESSIBLE flag

Vishal Annapurve
2022-05-31T19:15:23Z

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 8:41 AM Chao Peng <chao.p.peng@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> Introduce a new memfd_create() flag indicating the content of the
> created memfd is inaccessible from userspace through ordinary MMU
> access (e.g., read/write/mmap). However, the file content can be
> accessed via a different mechanism (e.g. KVM MMU) indirectly.
>

SEV, TDX, pkvm and software-only VMs seem to have usecases to set up
initial guest boot memory with the needed blobs.
TDX already supports a KVM IOCTL to transfer contents to private
memory using the TDX module but rest of the implementations will need
to invent
a way to do this.

Is there a plan to support a common implementation for either allowing
initial write access from userspace to private fd or adding a KVM
IOCTL to transfer contents to such a file,
as part of this series through future revisions?

Regards,
Vishal