Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Syscall User Redirection

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 16:29:42 EST


On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 01:25:43PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:22:34PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 01:04:38PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 03:31:39PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> > > > This is v4 of Syscall User Redirection. The implementation itself is
> > > > not modified from v3, it only applies the latest round of reviews to the
> > > > selftests.
> > > >
> > > > __NR_syscalls is not really exported in header files other than
> > > > asm-generic for every architecture, so it felt safer to optionally
> > > > expose it with a fallback to a high value.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I didn't expose tests for PR_GET as that is not currently
> > > > implemented. If possible, I'd have it supported by a future patchset,
> > > > since it is not immediately necessary to support this feature.
> > >
> > > Thanks! That all looks good to me.
> >
> > Don't have any problem with this but did this ever get exposure on
> > linux-api? This is the first time I see this pop up.
>
> I thought I'd added it to CC in the past, but that might have been other
> recent unrelated threads. Does this need a full repost there too, you
> think?

Nah, wasn't my intention to force a repost. Seems that several people
have looked this over. :) Just curious why it didn't get to linux-api
and we know quite some people who only do look at linux-api (for sanity). :)

Christian