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

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Thu Jul 16 2020 - 16:22:43 EST


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.

Christian