Memory keys and io_uring.

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I am trying to estabilish the behaviour we should expect when passing a
buffer with memory keys attached to io_uring syscalls. As show  in the
blow test

/*
 * gcc -Wall -O2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -o pkey_uring pkey_uring.c -luring
 */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include "liburing.h"

#define PAGE_SIZE  (64 << 10)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int fd, ret, pkey;
	struct io_uring ring;
	struct io_uring_sqe *sqe;
	struct io_uring_cqe *cqe;
	struct iovec iovec;
	void *buf;

	if (argc < 2) {
		printf("%s: file\n", argv[0]);
		return 1;
	}

	ret = io_uring_queue_init(1, &ring, IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL);
	if (ret < 0) {
		fprintf(stderr, "queue_init: %s\n", strerror(-ret));
		return 1;
	}

	fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_DIRECT);
	if (fd < 0) {
		perror("open");
		return 1;
	}

	if (posix_memalign(&buf, PAGE_SIZE, PAGE_SIZE))
		return 1;
	iovec.iov_base = buf;
	iovec.iov_len = PAGE_SIZE;

	//mprotect(buf, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_NONE);
	pkey = pkey_alloc(0, PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE);
	pkey_mprotect(buf, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, pkey);


	sqe = io_uring_get_sqe(&ring);
	if (!sqe) {
		perror("io_uring_get_sqe");
		return 1;
	}
	io_uring_prep_readv(sqe, fd, &iovec, 1, 0);

	ret = io_uring_submit(&ring);
	if (ret != 1) {
		fprintf(stderr, "io_uring_submit: %s\n", strerror(-ret));
		return 1;
	}

	ret = io_uring_wait_cqe(&ring, &cqe);

	if (cqe->res < 0)
		fprintf(stderr, "iouring submit failed %s\n", strerror(-cqe->res));
	else
		fprintf(stderr, "iouring submit success\n");

	io_uring_cqe_seen(&ring, cqe);

	/*
	 * let's access this via a read syscall
	 */
	ret = read(fd, buf, PAGE_SIZE);
	if (ret < 0)
		fprintf(stderr, "read failed : %s\n", strerror(errno));

	close(fd);
	io_uring_queue_exit(&ring);

	return 0;
}

A read syscall do fail with EFAULT. But we allow read via io_uring
syscalls. Is that ok? Considering memory keys are thread-specific we
could debate that kernel thread can be considered to be the one that got all access
allowed via keys or we could update that access is denied via kernel
thread for any key value other than default key (key 0). Other option
is to inherit the memory key restrictions when doing
io_uring_submit() and use the same when accessing the userspace from
kernel thread. 

Any thoughts here with respect to what should be behaviour?

-aneesh