Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

[Ingo Molnar]

* Markus Gutschke (éåå) <markus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:23, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And I guess the seccomp interaction means that this is 
> > potentially a 2.6.29 thing. Not that I know whether anybody 
> > actually _uses_ seccomp. It does seem to be enabled in at least 
> > Fedora kernels, but it might not be used anywhere.
> 
> In the Linux version of Google Chrome, we are currently working on 
> code that will use seccomp for parts of our sandboxing solution.

That's a pretty interesting usage. What would be fallback mode you 
are using if the kernel doesnt have seccomp built in? Completely 
non-sandboxed? Or a ptrace/PTRACE_SYSCALL based sandbox?

	Ingo
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