Re: [patch 11/18] seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return boolean

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, Jul 08 2026 at 18:04, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 07/08, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 08 2026 at 09:43, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
>> >
>> > The return value of __seccomp_filter is checked in the wrong way, check
>> > -1 should be replaced with check false, maybe:
>> >
>> > -               if (__seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true))
>> > -                       return -1;
>> > +               if (!__seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true))
>> > +                       return false;
>
> Or simply
>
> 	return __seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true);
>
> and remove "return true" below ?

Duh. Obvious now that you point it out :)

> Either way, I personally like this change, I was always confused by these -1's.

Welcome to the club!