[PATCH 2/3] libcamera: shared_mem_object: Prevent memfd from shrinking or growing

Milan Zamazal mzamazal at redhat.com
Wed Jul 31 09:24:29 CEST 2024


Hi Laurent,

thank you for the patch.

Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com> writes:

> The memfd underlying the SharedMem object must not shrink, or memory
> corruption will happen. Prevent this by setting the shrink seal on the
> file. As there's no valid use case for growing the memory either, set
> the grow seal as well.

Makes sense to me.

Reviewed-by: Milan Zamazal <mzamazal at redhat.com>

> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>  src/libcamera/shared_mem_object.cpp | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/libcamera/shared_mem_object.cpp b/src/libcamera/shared_mem_object.cpp
> index 022645e71a35..d4c7991ad16a 100644
> --- a/src/libcamera/shared_mem_object.cpp
> +++ b/src/libcamera/shared_mem_object.cpp
> @@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ SharedMem::SharedMem() = default;
>   */
>  SharedMem::SharedMem(const std::string &name, std::size_t size)
>  {
> -	UniqueFD memfd = MemFd::create(name.c_str(), size);
> +	UniqueFD memfd = MemFd::create(name.c_str(), size, MemFd::Seal::Shrink |
> +				       MemFd::Seal::Grow);
>  	if (!memfd.isValid())
>  		return;



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