Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] exec: seal system mappings

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jan 16 2025 - 00:27:18 EST


On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 03:52:23PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > You seem to be saying you're pushing an internal feature on upstream and
> > only care about internal use cases, this is not how upstream works, as
> > Matthew alludes to.
>
> Internal? No. Chrome OS and Android. Linux runs more Android devices
> than everything else in the world combined -- this is not some random
> experiment.

All of which are tightly controlled by Google and not actually open
to users. Which doesn't say they don't matter, but they matter a
lot less than fetures widely useful to the open not locked down
userbase of classic Linux.