Re: [PATCH 04/16] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set

[Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>]

On 26 Oct 2026, at 5:40, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:

> From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
>
> The owner of a memfd sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC can still change its
> execute bits by setting a POSIX access ACL. With CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL,
> this lets an unprivileged owner make a non-executable memfd executable,
> bypassing vm.memfd_noexec=2.
>
> simple_set_acl() updates i_mode directly, bypassing the seal check in
> shmem_setattr(). Add shmem_set_acl() to check the resulting mode. Share
> the F_SEAL_EXEC check with shmem_setattr() using memfd_check_seals_mode()
> in include/linux/memfd.h.
>
> Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private.
>
> Fixes: 6fd7353829ca ("mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
> [ david: use common helper; simplify description ]
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/linux/memfd.h |  9 +++++++++
>  mm/shmem.c            | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>

The changes make sense to me.

Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi