Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Dec 16 2022 - 15:35:19 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:11:44AM -0800, Jeff Xu wrote:
> Once per boot seems too little, it would be nice if we can list all processes.
> I agree ratelimited might be too much.
> There is a feature gap here for logging.
>
> Kees, what do you think ?

I agree once per boot is kind of frustrating "I fixed the one warning,
oh, now it's coming from a different process". But ratelimit is, in
retrospect, still too often.

Let's go with per boot -- this should be noisy "enough" to get the
changes in API into the callers without being too much of a hassle.

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Kees Cook