On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 8:40 AM Linus Torvalds
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 07:23, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > There is an one large difference remainig between mimmutable() and mseal(),
> > which is how other system calls behave.
> >
> > We return EPERM for failures in all the system calls that fail upon
> > immutable memory (since Oct 2022).
> >
> > You are returning EACESS.
> >
> > Before it is too late, do you want to reconsider that return value, or
> > do you have a justification for the choice?
>
> I don't think there's any real reason for the difference.
>
> Jeff - mind changing the EACESS to EPERM, and we'll have something
> that is more-or-less compatible between Linux and OpenBSD?
>
Sounds Good. I will make the necessary changes in the next version.

-Jeff

>              Linus

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