Thread (16 messages) 16 messages, 6 authors, 2018-11-26

Re: [PATCH -next 1/2] mm/memfd: make F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal more robust

From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Date: 2018-11-20 15:14:01
Also in: linux-kselftest, linux-mm, lkml

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
[off-list ref] wrote:
A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
behavior of the seal. This solves several side-effects pointed out by
Andy [2].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/ (local)
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/69CE06CC-E47C-4992-848A-66EB23EE6C74@amacapital.net/ (local)

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Fixes: 5e653c2923fd ("mm: Add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd")
What tree is that commit in?  Can we not just fold this in?
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