Article 6NFJA [$] Memory sealing for the GNU C Library

[$] Memory sealing for the GNU C Library

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The mseal() system call allows aprocess to prevent any future changes to portions of its address space(thus "sealing" them); it was patterned after the mimmutable() system call in OpenBSD.mseal() generated a lot of discussion, but it was finally mergedfor the upcoming 6.10 kernel release. While mseal() was initiallyaimed at securing the Chrome browser, the hope was that it would be usefulelsewhere; as a step toward realizing that hope, Adhemerval Zanella hasposted apatch series adding support for - and use of - mseal() to theGNU C library (glibc).
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