[PATCH 25.11 2/3] vhost: : remove fallbacks for old Linux versions

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Jun 30 15:29:03 CEST 2025


All supported linux versions support F_ADD_SEALS (Linux 3.17+) and
MFD_HUGETLB (Linux 4.14+), so no need to have #ifdefs and fallbacks to
support systems which do not support those features.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 lib/vhost/vhost_user.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
index b73dec6a22..4bfb13fb98 100644
--- a/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
+++ b/lib/vhost/vhost_user.c
@@ -36,10 +36,7 @@
 #ifdef RTE_LIBRTE_VHOST_POSTCOPY
 #include <linux/userfaultfd.h>
 #endif
-#ifdef F_ADD_SEALS /* if file sealing is supported, so is memfd */
 #include <linux/memfd.h>
-#define MEMFD_SUPPORTED
-#endif
 
 #include <eal_export.h>
 #include <rte_common.h>
@@ -1627,11 +1624,7 @@ inflight_mem_alloc(struct virtio_net *dev, const char *name, size_t size, int *f
 	char fname[20] = "/tmp/memfd-XXXXXX";
 
 	*fd = -1;
-#ifdef MEMFD_SUPPORTED
 	mfd = memfd_create(name, MFD_CLOEXEC);
-#else
-	RTE_SET_USED(name);
-#endif
 	if (mfd == -1) {
 		mfd = mkstemp(fname);
 		if (mfd == -1) {
-- 
2.48.1



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