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 bbcd53c960 ("drivers/char: remove
/dev/kmem for good")
2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in
commit 2128f4e21a ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via
/dev/mem")
3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in
commit 0daa322b8f ("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 ce2814622e ("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 <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Marek Kedzierski <mkedzier@redhat.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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