Re: [PATCH -next 1/2] mm/memfd: make F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal more robust

From: Joel Fernandes
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 13:39:31 EST


On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 07:13:17AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 9:21 PM Joel Fernandes (Google)
> <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
> > where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
> > behavior of the seal. This solves several side-effects pointed out by
> > Andy [2].
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/69CE06CC-E47C-4992-848A-66EB23EE6C74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >
> > Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Fixes: 5e653c2923fd ("mm: Add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd")
>
> What tree is that commit in? Can we not just fold this in?

It is in linux-next. Could we keep both commits so we have the history?

thanks,

- Joel