[PATCH v6 0/9] Add support for memory sealing

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 13:45:56 GMT 2025


* Stephen Röttger:

> Florian, do you see any other option to make this work?

I don't think we can make this work due to the obvious conflict in
goals.

I'm not sure how many installations critically depend on glibc patching.
It could be anti-cheats, tracing and debugging tools, userspace GPU
drivers.  Anyone who has to rely on binary patching will have a very
hard time upgrading to a newer glibc from their distribution because
there is currently no reliable system-wide way to disable this
functionality.

Maybe it's not a problem because the number of impacted users is low?
Hard to tell.

Thanks,
Florian



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