[PATCH v5 14/22] mm: shmem: allow freezing inode mapping

Pasha Tatashin
2025-11-07T21:06:00Z

From: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>

To prepare a shmem inode for live update via the Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), its index -> folio mappings must be serialized. Once
the mappings are serialized, they cannot change since it would cause the
serialized data to become inconsistent. This can be done by pinning the
folios to avoid migration, and by making sure no folios can be added to
or removed from the inode.

While mechanisms to pin folios already exist, the only way to stop
folios being added or removed are the grow and shrink file seals. But
file seals come with their own semantics, one of which is that they
can't be removed. This doesn't work with liveupdate since it can be
cancelled or error out, which would need the seals to be removed and the
file's normal functionality to be restored.

Introduce SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN to indicate this instead. It is
internal to shmem and is not directly exposed to userspace. It functions
similar to F_SEAL_GROW | F_SEAL_SHRINK, but additionally disallows hole
punching, and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pahsa.tatashin@soleen.com>
---
include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
index 710b1dd681bf..08f497673b06 100644
--- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ struct swap_iocb;
#define SHMEM_F_NORESERVE BIT(0)
/* Disallow swapping. */
#define SHMEM_F_LOCKED BIT(1)
+/*
+ * Disallow growing, shrinking, or hole punching in the inode. Combined with
+ * folio pinning, makes sure the inode's mapping stays fixed.
+ *
+ * In some ways similar to F_SEAL_GROW | F_SEAL_SHRINK, but can be removed and
+ * isn't directly visible to userspace.
+ */
+#define SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN BIT(2)

struct shmem_inode_info {
spinlock_t lock;
@@ -187,6 +195,15 @@ static inline bool shmem_file(struct file *file)
return shmem_mapping(file->f_mapping);
}

+/* Must be called with inode lock taken exclusive. */
+static inline void shmem_i_mapping_freeze(struct inode *inode, bool freeze)
+{
+ if (freeze)
+ SHMEM_I(inode)->flags |= SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN;
+ else
+ SHMEM_I(inode)->flags &= ~SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN;
+}
+
/*
* If fallocate(FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE) has been used, there may be pages
* beyond i_size's notion of EOF, which fallocate has committed to reserving:
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 19be8c575647..2e3cb0424a1f 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -1321,7 +1321,8 @@ static int shmem_setattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
loff_t newsize = attr->ia_size;

/* protected by i_rwsem */
- if ((newsize < oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_SHRINK)) ||
+ if ((info->flags & SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN) ||
+ (newsize < oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_SHRINK)) ||
(newsize > oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW)))
return -EPERM;

@@ -3319,6 +3320,10 @@ shmem_write_begin(const struct kiocb *iocb, struct address_space *mapping,
return -EPERM;
}

+ if (unlikely((info->flags & SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN) &&
+ pos + len > inode->i_size))
+ return -EPERM;
+
ret = shmem_get_folio(inode, index, pos + len, &folio, SGP_WRITE);
if (ret)
return ret;
@@ -3692,6 +3697,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,

inode_lock(inode);

+ if (info->flags & SHMEM_F_MAPPING_FROZEN) {
+ error = -EPERM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (mode & FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE) {
struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping;
loff_t unmap_start = round_up(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
--
2.51.2.1041.gc1ab5b90ca-goog