[PATCH 0/3] mm/mseal: further cleanups

From: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 10:08:00 EST


The mseal implementation is still rather confusing, so tighten things up a
little.

The only user of do_mseal() outside of the system call is the MMAP_PAGE_ZERO
process personality - retain better control over how mseal is utilised by
providing mseal_mmap_page_zero() for this instead.

The comments are overly long and confusion, so cut them down so they're a lot
clearer.

Remove confusing mm_struct params (mseal can not be used on remote mm's) and
wrap the actual system call logic into the system call declaration.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) (3):
mm/mseal: remove superfluous comments, fix confusion around mm
mm/mseal: limit scope of mseal address zero to address zero
mm/mseal: remove further superfluous comments, do_mseal()

fs/binfmt_elf.c | 7 +--
include/linux/mm.h | 8 +--
mm/mseal.c | 156 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 59c684a9908d2e6f7a791f7f033eae57ec2b3a61
change-id: 20260716-mseal-fixups-131ad0939de2

Cheers,
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Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>