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Subject: Re: Fwd: Started to get "memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor
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To:     Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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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.

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