Re: [PATCH] x86,seccomp,prctl: Remove PR_TSC_SIGSEGV and seccomp TSC filtering

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 17:12:15 EST


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 02:04:53PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Something like so.. slightly less ugly and possibly with more
> > complicated conditions setting the cr4 if you want to fix tsc vs seccomp
> > as well.
>
> This will crash anything that tries rdpmc in an allow-everything
> seccomp sandbox. It's also not very compatible with my grand scheme
> of allowing rdtsc to be turned off without breaking clock_gettime. :)

Well, we clear cap_user_rdpmc, so everybody who still tries it gets what
he deserves, no problem there.
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