virtio-mem: support VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE

The initial virtio-mem spec states that while unplugged memory should not
be read, the device still has to allow for reading unplugged memory inside
the usable region. The primary motivation for this default handling was
to simplify bringup of virtio-mem, because there were corner cases where
Linux might have accidentially read unplugged memory inside added Linux
memory blocks.

In the meantime, we:
1. Removed /dev/kmem in commit bbcd53c ("drivers/char: remove
   /dev/kmem for good")
2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in
   commit 2128f4e ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via
   /dev/mem")
3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in
   commit 0daa322 ("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections,
   logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages")
4. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in
   commit ce28146 ("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore
   access")

"Accidential" access to unplugged memory is no longer possible; we can
support the new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be
required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Marek Kedzierski <[email protected]>
Cc: Hui Zhu <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <[email protected]>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yang <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>

Author: davidhildenbrand

drivers/virtio/virtio_mem.c

@@ -2889,6 +2889,7 @@ static unsigned int virtio_mem_features[] = {
 #if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) && defined(CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA)
 	VIRTIO_MEM_F_ACPI_PXM,
 #endif
+	VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE,
 };
 
 static const struct virtio_device_id virtio_mem_id_table[] = {

include/uapi/linux/virtio_mem.h

@@ -68,9 +68,10 @@
  * explicitly triggered (VIRTIO_MEM_REQ_UNPLUG).
  *
  * There are no guarantees what will happen if unplugged memory is
- * read/written. Such memory should, in general, not be touched. E.g.,
- * even writing might succeed, but the values will simply be discarded at
- * random points in time.
+ * read/written. In general, unplugged memory should not be touched, because
+ * the resulting action is undefined. There is one exception: without
+ * VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE, unplugged memory inside the usable
+ * region can be read, to simplify creation of memory dumps.
  *
  * It can happen that the device cannot process a request, because it is
  * busy. The device driver has to retry later.
@@ -87,6 +88,8 @@
 
 /* node_id is an ACPI PXM and is valid */
 #define VIRTIO_MEM_F_ACPI_PXM		0
+/* unplugged memory must not be accessed */
+#define VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE	1
 
 
 /* --- virtio-mem: guest -> host requests --- */