Re: seccomp: add "seccomp" syscall

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Kees,

v3.17 is gonna get a lot of new syscalls...

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=48dc92b9fc3926844257316e75ba11eb5c742b2c
> Commit:     48dc92b9fc3926844257316e75ba11eb5c742b2c
> Parent:     3b23dd12846215eff4afb073366b80c0c4d7543e
> Refname:    refs/heads/master
> Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Wed Jun 25 16:08:24 2014 -0700
> Committer:  Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Fri Jul 18 12:13:37 2014 -0700
>
>     seccomp: add "seccomp" syscall
>
>     This adds the new "seccomp" syscall with both an "operation" and "flags"
>     parameter for future expansion. The third argument is a pointer value,
>     used with the SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER operation. Currently, flags must
>     be 0. This is functionally equivalent to prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, ...).
>
>     In addition to the TSYNC flag later in this patch series, there is a
>     non-zero chance that this syscall could be used for configuring a fixed
>     argument area for seccomp-tracer-aware processes to pass syscall arguments
>     in the future. Hence, the use of "seccomp" not simply "seccomp_add_filter"
>     for this syscall. Additionally, this syscall uses operation, flags,
>     and user pointer for arguments because strictly passing arguments via
>     a user pointer would mean seccomp itself would be unable to trivially
>     filter the seccomp syscall itself.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Is this something that I should enable?

As it depends on CONFIG_SECCOMP, it only makes sense on architectures that
already support CONFIG_SECCOMP, right?
Does it make sense to reserve a syscall slot for it on architectures that
don't support it yet?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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