Re: [RFC PATCH v5 1/7] mseal, system mappings: kernel config and header change

[Randy Dunlap]

On 2/11/25 7:21 PM, jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

> ---
>  include/linux/userprocess.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  init/Kconfig                | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  security/Kconfig            | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 include/linux/userprocess.h
> 

> diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
> index d0d021b3fa3b..892d2bcdf397 100644
> --- a/init/Kconfig
> +++ b/init/Kconfig
> @@ -1882,6 +1882,24 @@ config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_CALLBACKS
>  config ARCH_HAS_MEMBARRIER_SYNC_CORE
>  	bool
>  
> +config ARCH_HAS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS
> +	bool
> +	help
> +	  Control MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS access based on architecture.
> +
> +	  A 64-bit kernel is required for the memory sealing feature.
> +	  No specific hardware features from the CPU are needed.
> +
> +	  To enable this feature, the architecture needs to update their
> +	  speical mappings calls to include the sealing flag and confirm

	  special

> +	  that it doesn't unmap/remap system mappings during the life
> +	  time of the process. After the architecture enables this, a
> +	  distribution can set CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access
> +	  to the feature.
> +
> +	  For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see
> +	  Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst
> +
>  config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
>  	bool
>  	help


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~Randy