Re: Fwd: Started to get "memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL"

[Stuart Foster]

On 02/06/2023 03:15, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 6/1/23 21:12, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > Hm indeed it seems to have introduced 2 new flags and immediately warn if
> > > any process doesn't use them. Maybe it would make sense for some of the
> > > non-default values of vm.memfd_noexec, but it's too early to warn
> > > unconditionally everywhere, no?
> >
> > This is pretty standard for getting new options like this noticed by
> > userspace -- there is no regression in _behavior_. It's just a reminder
> > to fix userspace code.
>
> Telling regzbot:
>
> #regzbot invalid: not a kernel regression, but userspace fix is needed
>
> Thanks.

Issue raised with XOrg:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1553