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

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer
Date: Mon Nov 09 2020 - 05:42:14 EST


> On 11/04/2020 6:02 PM Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 <hagen@xxxxxxxx>

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