Re: [PATCH 3/7] Add a UFFD_SECURE flag to the userfaultfd API.

[Mike Rapoport]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 11:10:54AM -0400, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:02:59PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > That's no the reason that UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK does not show up in
> > Debian code search, CRIU simply is not there. Debian packages CRIU only in
> > experimental and I believe that's not indexed by the code search.
> > 
> > As for the limitations, the races were fixed, I just forgot to update the
> > wiki. As for the supported memory types and COW pages, these only affect
> > efficiency of post-copy, but not the correctness.
> 
> That's what I was hoping for. If the wiki information is stale and
> there are no races it is totally plausible that it's being actively
> used in production so we need to fix the kernel bug. I was just
> checking because I wasn't sure anymore of the status after I read the
> wiki.
> 
> If the CRIU initialization code that issues the uffd syscall runs as
> global root the ABI breaking permission check from Andy sounds the
> simplest for a short term fix, because it will be unnoticed by any
> production usage with CIRU --lazy-pages.
 
In general, criu can run as non-root, but such use of criu has limitations,
so allowing criu --lazy-pages only for root sounds reasonable as a short
term solution.

> Then later we could add a UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK2 that will not
> require root permission.

Agree.

> Thanks,
> Andrea
> 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.