Re: [PATCH] tools/testing/selftests/seccomp: change USER_NOTIF_MAGIC definition

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 09:51:28PM -0800, Max Filippov wrote:
> USER_NOTIF_MAGIC is used to both initialize seccomp_notif_resp::val and
> verify syscall resturn value. On 32-bit architectures syscall return
> value has type long, but the value of USER_NOTIF_MAGIC has type long
> long because it doesn't fit into long. As a result all syscall return
> value comparisons with USER_NOTIF_MAGIC are false. This is also reported
> by the compiler when '-W' is added to CFLAGS.

Hi! Thanks for sending this. There is already a patch in the pipeline
for getting it fixed; it should show up in Linus's tree soon:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git/commit/?h=for-next/seccomp&id=223e660bc7638d126a0e4fbace4f33f2895788c4

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Kees Cook