[RFC PATCH] userfaultfd: support control over mm of remote PIDs

[Nadav Amit]

From: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>

Non-cooperative mode is useful but only for forked processes.
Userfaultfd can be useful to monitor, debug and manage memory of remote
processes.

To support this mode, add a new flag, UFFD_REMOTE_PID, and an optional
second argument to the userfaultfd syscall. When the flag is set, the
second argument is assumed to be the PID of the process that is to be
monitored. Otherwise the flag is ignored.

The syscall enforces that the caller has CAP_SYS_PTRACE to prevent
misuse of this feature.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>

---

I know that I have an RFC regarding the use of iouring with userfaultfd.
I do intend to follow this RFC as well, but it requires some more work.
---
 fs/userfaultfd.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 003f0d31743e..cf44e1e13a03 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -2053,10 +2053,39 @@ static void init_once_userfaultfd_ctx(void *mem)
 	seqcount_spinlock_init(&ctx->refile_seq, &ctx->fault_pending_wqh.lock);
 }
 
-SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags)
+static int userfaultfd_get_remote_mm(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx, int pidfd)
 {
-	struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx;
-	int fd;
+	struct task_struct *task;
+	struct pid *pid;
+	struct fd f;
+	int ret;
+
+	f = fdget(pidfd);
+	if (!f.file)
+		return -EBADF;
+
+	pid = pidfd_pid(f.file);
+
+	task = get_pid_task(pid, PIDTYPE_PID);
+	ret = -ESRCH;
+	if (!task)
+		goto err_out;
+
+	ctx->mm = task->mm;
+	mmgrab(ctx->mm);
+	put_task_struct(task);
+	ret = 0;
+out:
+	return ret;
+err_out:
+	fdput(f);
+	goto out;
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(userfaultfd, int, flags, int, pidfd)
+{
+	struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx = NULL;
+	int ret;
 
 	if (!sysctl_unprivileged_userfaultfd &&
 	    (flags & UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY) == 0 &&
@@ -2067,14 +2096,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags)
 		return -EPERM;
 	}
 
+	if ((flags & UFFD_REMOTE_PID) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	BUG_ON(!current->mm);
 
 	/* Check the UFFD_* constants for consistency.  */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_REMOTE_PID & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_CLOEXEC != O_CLOEXEC);
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(UFFD_NONBLOCK != O_NONBLOCK);
 
-	if (flags & ~(UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS | UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY))
+	if (flags & ~(UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS | UFFD_USER_MODE_ONLY |
+		      UFFD_REMOTE_PID))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ctx = kmem_cache_alloc(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2086,17 +2120,30 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(userfaultfd, int, flags)
 	ctx->features = 0;
 	ctx->released = false;
 	atomic_set(&ctx->mmap_changing, 0);
-	ctx->mm = current->mm;
-	/* prevent the mm struct to be freed */
-	mmgrab(ctx->mm);
+	ctx->mm = NULL;
+
+	if (flags & UFFD_REMOTE_PID) {
+		/* the remote mm is grabbed by the following call */
+		ret = userfaultfd_get_remote_mm(ctx, pidfd);
+		if (ret)
+			goto err_out;
+	} else {
+		ctx->mm = current->mm;
+		/* prevent the mm struct to be freed */
+		mmgrab(ctx->mm);
+	}
 
-	fd = anon_inode_getfd_secure("[userfaultfd]", &userfaultfd_fops, ctx,
+	ret = anon_inode_getfd_secure("[userfaultfd]", &userfaultfd_fops, ctx,
 			O_RDWR | (flags & UFFD_SHARED_FCNTL_FLAGS), NULL);
-	if (fd < 0) {
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto err_out;
+out:
+	return ret;
+err_out:
+	if (ctx->mm)
 		mmdrop(ctx->mm);
-		kmem_cache_free(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, ctx);
-	}
-	return fd;
+	kmem_cache_free(userfaultfd_ctx_cachep, ctx);
+	goto out;
 }
 
 static int __init userfaultfd_init(void)
-- 
2.25.1