Re: [PATCH v7 0/4] Introduce mseal()

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jeffxu@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> Although the initial version of this patch series is targeting the
> Chrome browser as its first user, it became evident during upstream
> discussions that we would also want to ensure that the patch set
> eventually is a complete solution for memory sealing and compatible
> with other use cases. The specific scenario currently in mind is
> glibc's use case of loading and sealing ELF executables. To this end,
> Stephen is working on a change to glibc to add sealing support to the
> dynamic linker, which will seal all non-writable segments at startup.
> Once this work is completed, all applications will be able to
> automatically benefit from these new protections.

Is this work posted somewhere?  Having a second - and more generally
useful - user for this API would do a lot to show that the design is, in
fact, right and useful beyond the Chrome browser.

Thanks,

jon




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