Re: [PATCH 5/7] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is andhow it works.

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Thu Apr 28 2011 - 13:43:40 EST


Quoting Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx):
> I've Cc:-ed Linus and Andrew: are you guys opposed to such flexible, dynamic
> filters conceptually? I think we should really think hard about the actual ABI
> as this could easily spread to more applications than Chrome/Chromium.

We want to use it for containers, to try and provide some bit of
mitigation for the fact that they are sharing a kernel with the host.

thanks,
-serge
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