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diff --git a/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go b/pkg/sentry/memutil/memutil_unsafe.go
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+// Copyright 2018 Google Inc.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package memutil
+
+import (
+	"syscall"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+// CreateMemFD creates a memfd file and returns the fd.
+func CreateMemFD(name string, flags int) (fd int, err error) {
+	p, err := syscall.BytePtrFromString(name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, err
+	}
+	r0, _, e0 := syscall.Syscall(unix.SYS_MEMFD_CREATE, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(p)), uintptr(flags), 0)
+	if e0 != 0 {
+		return -1, e0
+	}
+	return int(r0), nil
+}