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mseal() gets closer

mseal() gets closer

Posted Feb 1, 2024 1:55 UTC (Thu) by kmeyer (subscriber, #50720)
Parent article: mseal() gets closer

> Röttger is working on adding support to the GNU C Library so that most programs would be able to run with a fair amount of sealing automatically applied.

Did you link to that somewhere or have more details? I'm curious what glibc would seal by default.

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mseal() gets closer

Posted Feb 1, 2024 1:58 UTC (Thu) by kmeyer (subscriber, #50720) [Link]

Maybe https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/cover/20240... :

> 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.

Ok, interesting.


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