Re: Sealed memfd & no-fault mmap

[Ming Lin]

On 6/3/2021 6:01 AM, Simon Ser wrote:

> Regarding the requirements for Wayland:
>
> - The baseline requirement is being able to avoid SIGBUS for read-only mappings
>    of shm files.
> - Wayland clients can expand their shm files. However the compositor doesn't
>    need to immediately access the new expanded region. The client will tell the
>    compositor what the new shm file size is, and the compositor will re-map it.
> - Ideally, MAP_NOSIGBUS would work on PROT_WRITE + MAP_SHARED mappings (of
>    course, the no-SIGBUS behavior would be restricted to that mapping). The
>    use-case is writing back to client buffers e.g. for screen capture. From the
>    earlier discussions it seems like this would be complicated to implement.
>    This means we'll need to come up with a new libwayland API to allow
>    compositors to opt-in to the read-only mappings. This is sub-optimal but
>    seems doable.
> - Ideally, MAP_SIGBUS wouldn't be restricted to shm. There are use-cases for
>    using it on ordinary files too, e.g. for sharing ICC profiles. But from the
>    earlier replies it seems very unlikely that this will become possible, and
>    making it work only on shm files would already be fantastic.

In the new version of the patches, MAP_NOSIGBUS is not restricted to shmem.
It can be used on ordinary files.