Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] mseal cleanups, fixup MAP_PRIVATE file-backed case

From: Lorenzo Stoakes
Date: Thu Jul 24 2025 - 15:10:42 EST


On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 11:32:26AM -0700, Jeff Xu wrote:
> Hi Lorenzo,
>
> Thanks for including me in this thread. I've just returned from
> vacation and am catching up on my emails. I'll respond to each patch
> separately in the following emails.

You're welcome, I promised I would always cc you, and I keep my promises as
best I can.

It's unfortunate that you're sending this review on more or less the last
day of the cycle, but there we are.

>
> Could you consider adding mm/mseal.c to the HARDENING section of
> MAINTAINERS? Please include Kees and linux-hardening in future emails
> about mseal - Kees has been helping me with mseal since the beginning.

No, because we might move any of this logic elsewhere and I consider it
fundamental to VMA logic.

I am more than happy to include Kees as well on any emails regarding
this. But it does not serve VMA logic to arbitrarily keep things in a
certain file to satisfy MAINTAINERS.