Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mseal: update mseal.rst

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Oct 04 2024 - 19:52:33 EST




On 10/4/24 9:52 AM, Jeff Xu wrote:
>> above is not a sentence but I don't know how to fix it.
>>
> Would below work ?
>
> Certain destructive madvise behaviors, specifically MADV_DONTNEED,
> MADV_FREE, MADV_DONTNEED_LOCKED, MADV_FREE, MADV_DONTFORK,
> MADV_WIPEONFORK, can pose risks when applied to anonymous memory by
> threads without write permissions. These behaviors have the potential
> to modify region contents by discarding pages, effectively performing
> a memset(0) operation on the anonymous memory.

Yes, that works.
Or at least it explains the problem, like Theo said.

Thanks.
--
~Randy