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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 2 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 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 diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 9d91074c5d0a..a1402bd82026 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -2120,7 +2120,7 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS from a kernel perspective. After the architecture enables this, a distribution can set - CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPING to manage access to the feature. + CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS to manage access to the feature. For complete descriptions of memory sealing, please see Documentation/userspace-api/mseal.rst |