Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: guest_memfd: GUP source pages prior to populating guest memory

[Vishal Annapurve]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > +                 if (src_offset) {
> > > > +                         src_vaddr = kmap_local_pfn(page_to_pfn(src_pages[i + 1]));
> > > > +
> > > > +                         memcpy(dst_vaddr + PAGE_SIZE - src_offset, src_vaddr, src_offset);
> > > > +                         kunmap_local(src_vaddr);
> > > IIUC, src_offset is the src's offset from the first page. e.g.,
> > > src could be 0x7fea82684100, with src_offset=0x100, while npages could be 512.
> > >
> > > Then it looks like the two memcpy() calls here only work when npages == 1 ?
> >
> > src_offset ends up being the offset into the pair of src pages that we
> > are using to fully populate a single dest page with each iteration. So
> > if we start at src_offset, read a page worth of data, then we are now at
> > src_offset in the next src page and the loop continues that way even if
> > npages > 1.
> >
> > If src_offset is 0 we never have to bother with straddling 2 src pages so
> > the 2nd memcpy is skipped on every iteration.
> >
> > That's the intent at least. Is there a flaw in the code/reasoning that I
> > missed?
> Oh, I got you. SNP expects a single src_offset applies for each src page.
>
> So if npages = 2, there're 4 memcpy() calls.
>
> src:  |---------|---------|---------|  (VA contiguous)
>           ^         ^         ^
>           |         |         |
> dst:      |---------|---------|   (PA contiguous)
>
>
> I previously incorrectly thought kvm_gmem_populate() should pass in src_offset
> as 0 for the 2nd src page.
>
> Would you consider checking if params.uaddr is PAGE_ALIGNED() in
> snp_launch_update() to simplify the design?
>

IIUC, this ship has sailed, as asserting this would break existing
userspace which can pass unaligned userspace buffers.