Re: [PATCH v10 0/5] Introduce mseal

Andrew Morton
2024-05-23T23:54:20Z

On Thu, 23 May 2024 16:32:26 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 12:52:13PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:46:46AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:35:19 +0000 jeffxu@chromium.org wrote:
> > >
> > > > This patchset proposes a new mseal() syscall for the Linux kernel.
> > >
> > > I have not moved this into mm-stable for a 6.10 merge. Mainly because
> > > of the total lack of Reviewed-by:s and Acked-by:s.
> >
> > Oh, I thought I had already reviewed it. FWIW, please consider it:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> >
> > > The code appears to be stable enough for a merge.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > It's awkward that we're in conference this week, but I ask people to
> > > give consideration to the desirability of moving mseal() into mainline
> > > sometime over the next week, please.
> >
> > Yes please. :)
>
> Is the plan still to land this for 6.10? With the testing it's had in
> -next and Liam's review, I think we're good to go?

The testing and implementation review seem OK. But from a higher-level
perspective Linus doesn't seem to be on board(?). I was planning on
holding onto this, see if the discussion progresses across this -rc
cycle.