On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 05:31:58PM -0700, Ackerley Tng via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>
>
> Move the folio initialization logic from kvm_gmem_get_pfn() into
> __kvm_gmem_get_pfn() to also zero pages if the page is to be used in
> kvm_gmem_populate().
>
> With in-place conversion, the existing data in a guest_memfd page can be
> populated into guest memory through platform-specific ioctls.
>
> Without first zeroing the page obtained using __kvm_gmem_get_pfn(), it
> might contain uninitialized host memory, which would leak to the guest if
> the populate completes.
>
> guest_memfd pages are zeroed at most once in the page's entire lifetime
> with guest_memfd, and that is tracked using the uptodate flag.
>
> Zeroing the page in __kvm_gmem_get_pfn() is chosen over zeroing in
> kvm_gmem_get_folio() since other flows, such as a future write() syscall,
> can get a page, write to the page and then set page uptodate without
> zeroing.
>
> This aligns with the concept of zeroing before first use - the other place
> where zeroing happens is in kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <[email protected]>
> ---
> virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> index 90bc1a26512b6..86c9f5b0863cb 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c
> @@ -1137,6 +1137,11 @@ static struct folio *__kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct file
> *file,
> return ERR_PTR(-EHWPOISON);
> }
>
> + if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
> + clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0));
> + folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> + }
Note:
In the __kvm_gmem_populate() path, this folio_mark_uptodate() call makes the
later one after post_populate() pointless.
__kvm_gmem_populate
|1.__kvm_gmem_get_pfn
| |->folio = kvm_gmem_get_folio()
| | if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio))
| | folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
|2. ret = post_populate()
|3. if (!ret)
| folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> *pfn = folio_file_pfn(folio, index);
> if (max_order)
> *max_order = 0;
> @@ -1166,11 +1171,6 @@ int kvm_gmem_get_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct
> kvm_memory_slot *slot,
> goto out;
> }
>
> - if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
> - clear_highpage(folio_page(folio, 0));
> - folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
> - }
> -
> if (kvm_gmem_is_private_mem(inode, index))
> r = kvm_gmem_prepare_folio(kvm, slot, gfn, folio);
>
>
