Thread (51 messages) 51 messages, 10 authors, 2021-12-03

Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 01/13] mm/shmem: Introduce F_SEAL_GUEST

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Date: 2021-11-22 13:31:49
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml, qemu-devel

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 10:26:12AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
I do wonder if we want to support sharing such memfds between processes
in all cases ... we most certainly don't want to be able to share
encrypted memory between VMs (I heard that the kernel has to forbid
that). It would make sense in the use case you describe, though.
If there is a F_SEAL_XX that blocks every kind of new access, who
cares if userspace passes the FD around or not?

Jason
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