Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] Introduce mseal()

2024-01-09 Thread Jeff Xu
On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 11:47 AM Kees Cook wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 03:45:38PM +, jef...@chromium.org wrote: > > This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel. > > Thanks for continuing to work on this! Given Linus's general approval > on the v4, I think this

Re: [RFC PATCH v5 0/4] Introduce mseal()

2024-01-09 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Jan 09, 2024 at 03:45:38PM +, jef...@chromium.org wrote: > This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel. Thanks for continuing to work on this! Given Linus's general approval on the v4, I think this series can also drop the "RFC" part -- this code is looking to

[RFC PATCH v5 0/4] Introduce mseal()

2024-01-09 Thread jeffxu
From: Jeff Xu This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel. In a nutshell, mseal() protects the VMAs of a given virtual memory range against modifications, such as changes to their permission bits. Modern CPUs support memory permissions, such as the read/write (RW) and