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Hello,

My name is Jeff Xu, I work with Stephen Röttger on hardening the chrome
browser.  I'm reaching out to explore the possibility of backporting
memory sealing into the 22.04 LTS kernel.

For context, it is worth noting that the Kernel introduces mseal support
in version 6.10 [1].  The Chrome V8 engine will utilize the memory
sealing function to protect its JIT compiler from memory corruption
vulnerabilities. The change is merged in Chrome, and we believe that
Ubuntu users would benefit from using this safer version of Chrome.

In addition, glibc’s dynamic linker is adding mseal to seal RO mapping
such as  .text, .rodata, .relco [2], the integration test is completed.

The backport work includes 4 commits [3] [4] [5] [6].  ChromeOS and
Android GKI both have the mseal backported to the 6.6 kernel.  I will
send out patches for LTS 22.04 to kernel-t...@lists.ubuntu.com

Thank you for your time and consideration.
Best regards,
Jeff

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/userspace-api/mseal.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-September/160291.html
[3] 
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/5595211/4
[4] 
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/5595853/4
[5] 
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/5742931
[6] 
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromiumos/third_party/kernel/+/5802772

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  Request to backport mseal syscall to LTS 24.04 LTS GA kernel

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