Messages in this thread | | | From | valdis.kletnieks@vt ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: Add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:32:02 -0400 |
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 23:59:07 -0700, "Joel Fernandes (Google)" said: > This usecase cannot be implemented with the existing F_SEAL_WRITE seal. > To support the usecase, this patch adds a new F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal > which prevents any future mmap and write syscalls from succeeding while > keeping the existing mmap active. The following program shows the seal > working in action:
What is supposed to happen if some other process has an already existing R/W mmap of the region? (For that matter, the test program doesn't seem to actually test that the existing mmap region remains writable?)
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