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This brings in several patches needed to add support for a memfd_create() syscall into kernel version 3.4 from kernel version 3.17. This is required for running lxc >= 3.1.0-r1 with security patch that fixes CVE-2019-5736. In short, security issue was: in a privileged container root process could overwrite lxc-start executable by opening its file descriptor and rewriting executable contents. This is where memfd comes to help: you can create an in-memory file, copy your executable there, and place a set of SEALS to protect it from modifying at a deep level. Then you fexecve() that fd and you're safe. For example, pulseaudio also can benefit from having memfd_create() implemented. This backports the following commits from upstream linux: - dd37978c50bc8b354e5c4633f69387f16572fdac: cache the value of file_inode() in struct file commit from linux-3.10 to have an f_inode member inside struct file and a helper function file_inode() that is used in some of the following commits - 40e041a2c858b3caefc757e26cb85bfceae5062b shm: add sealing API from 3.17: security measure called SEALS, that you can put on memfd file to restrict operations on it - 9183df25fe7b194563db3fec6dc3202a5855839c shm: add memfd_create() syscall also from 3.17 - 503e6636b6f96056210062be703356f4253b6db9 asm-generic: add memfd_create system call to unistd.h - e57e41931134e09fc6c03c8d4eb19d516cc6e59b ARM: wire up memfd_create syscall The last two are needed to make the syscall visible/usable from userspace, one in generic context, other for ARM arch. The test program (https://github.com/minlexx/test_memfd/) was written to verify that this works. [ci:skip-build]: already built successfully in CI
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