Thread (57 messages) 57 messages, 14 authors, 2020-11-17

Re: [PATCH v6 0/6] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hidden>
Date: 2020-11-09 10:42:15
Also in: linux-arch, linux-arm-kernel, linux-fsdevel, linux-kselftest, linux-mm, linux-riscv, lkml, nvdimm

On 11/04/2020 6:02 PM Mike Rapoport [off-list ref] wrote:

Yes, this will work. The processes that share the memfd_secret file
descriptor will have access to the same memory pages, pretty much like
with shared memory.
Perfect!

Acked-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <redacted>

Thank you for the effort Mike, if zeroize feature will also included it will
be great! The memset-all-pages after use is just overkill, a dedicated flag for
memfd_secret (or mmap) would be superior.

Hagen
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