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| author | Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> | 2026-07-15 21:12:58 +0800 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-06 18:57:12 -0700 |
| commit | e474ac24a79211f83e214d856630829f77363459 (patch) | |
| tree | c1a82a74e28cc0828cf90a89fcc822d623d67952 /Documentation/userspace-api | |
| parent | 1b300f679a4c27127effed80ede6a99fd1862dd8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-e474ac24a79211f83e214d856630829f77363459.tar.gz linux-next-e474ac24a79211f83e214d856630829f77363459.zip | |
mm/mseal: fix mseal documentation for 32-bit kernels
mseal.o is built only for 64-bit kernels, so 32-bit kernels fall back to
sys_ni_syscall() and return -ENOSYS rather than -EPERM.
Drop architecture description in mseal.rst, since the arch feature doc has
the latest state of mseal for each architecture.
Fix the CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS typo in init/Kconfig.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260715131258.55499-1-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst index ea9b11a0bd89..c039d782f9f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ mseal syscall signature * The start address (``addr``) is not allocated. * The end address (``addr`` + ``len``) is not allocated. * A gap (unallocated memory) between start and end address. - - **-EPERM**: - * sealing is supported only on 64-bit CPUs, 32-bit is not supported. + - **-ENOSYS**: + * The kernel does not implement ``mseal()``. **Note about error return**: - For above error cases, users can expect the given memory range is @@ -62,7 +62,8 @@ mseal syscall signature memory range could happen. However, those cases should be rare. **Architecture support**: - mseal only works on 64-bit CPUs, not 32-bit CPUs. + mseal is built only for 64-bit kernels. 32-bit kernels return + ``-ENOSYS``. **Idempotent**: users can call mseal multiple times. mseal on an already sealed memory @@ -131,11 +132,11 @@ Use cases - Chrome browser: protect some security sensitive data structures. - System mappings: - The system mappings are created by the kernel and includes vdso, vvar, + The system mappings are created by the kernel and include vdso, vvar, vvar_vclock, vectors (arm compat-mode), sigpage (arm compat-mode), uprobes. Those system mappings are readonly only or execute only, memory sealing can - protect them from ever changing to writable or unmmap/remapped as different + protect them from ever changing to writable or unmapped/remapped as different attributes. This is useful to mitigate memory corruption issues where a corrupted pointer is passed to a memory management system. @@ -143,9 +144,6 @@ Use cases the CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS seals all system mappings of this architecture. - The following architectures currently support this feature: x86-64, arm64, - loongarch and s390. - WARNING: This feature breaks programs which rely on relocating or unmapping system mappings. Known broken software at the time of writing includes CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, UML, gVisor, rr. Therefore |
