On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 02:21:52PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi Alexei and Daniel > > I have a question about seccomp. > > It seems that after this patch, seccomp no longer needs a helper > (seccomp_bpf_load()) > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bd4cf0ed331a275e9bf5a49e6d0fd55dffc551b8 > > Are we detecting that a particular JIT code needs to call at least one > function from the kernel at all ? Currently we don't track such things and trying very hard to avoid any special cases for classic vs extended. > If the filter contains self-contained code (no call, just inline > code), then we could use any room in whole vmalloc space, > not only from the modules (which is something like 2GB total on x86_64) I believe there was an effort to make bpf progs and other executable things to be everywhere too, but I lost the track of it. It's not that hard to tweak x64 jit to emit 64-bit calls to helpers when delta between call insn and a helper is more than 32-bit that fits into call insn. iirc there was even such patch floating around. but what motivated you question? do you see 2GB space being full?!
