From ab3948f58ff841e51feb845720624665ef5b7ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 15:47:54 -0800 Subject: mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd Android uses ashmem for sharing memory regions. We are looking forward to migrating all usecases of ashmem to memfd so that we can possibly remove the ashmem driver in the future from staging while also benefiting from using memfd and contributing to it. Note staging drivers are also not ABI and generally can be removed at anytime. One of the main usecases Android has is the ability to create a region and mmap it as writeable, then add protection against making any "future" writes while keeping the existing already mmap'ed writeable-region active. This allows us to implement a usecase where receivers of the shared memory buffer can get a read-only view, while the sender continues to write to the buffer. See CursorWindow documentation in Android for more details: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/CursorWindow This usecase cannot be implemented with the existing F_SEAL_WRITE seal. To support the usecase, this patch adds a new F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal which prevents any future mmap and write syscalls from succeeding while keeping the existing mmap active. A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same behavior of the seal. This solves several side-effects pointed by Andy. self-tests are provided in later patch to verify the expected semantics. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/ Thanks a lot to Andy for suggestions to improve code. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190112203816.85534-2-joel@joelfernandes.org Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Acked-by: John Stultz Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: J. Bruce Fields Cc: Jeff Layton Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Shuah Khan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h index 6448cdd9a350..a2f8658f1c55 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ #define F_SEAL_SHRINK 0x0002 /* prevent file from shrinking */ #define F_SEAL_GROW 0x0004 /* prevent file from growing */ #define F_SEAL_WRITE 0x0008 /* prevent writes */ +#define F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE 0x0010 /* prevent future writes while mapped */ /* (1U << 31) is reserved for signed error codes */ /* -- cgit v1.2.3