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Commit e9d586a8 authored by Marc-André Lureau's avatar Marc-André Lureau Committed by Linus Torvalds
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shmem: unexport shmem_add_seals()/shmem_get_seals()



Patch series "memfd: add sealing to hugetlb-backed memory", v3.

Recently, Mike Kravetz added hugetlbfs support to memfd.  However, he
didn't add sealing support.  One of the reasons to use memfd is to have
shared memory sealing when doing IPC or sharing memory with another
process with some extra safety.  qemu uses shared memory & hugetables
with vhost-user (used by dpdk), so it is reasonable to use memfd now
instead for convenience and security reasons.

This patch (of 9):

The functions are called through shmem_fcntl() only.  And no danger in
removing the EXPORTs as the routines only work with shmem file structs.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171107122800.25517-2-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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