Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF

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On 02/16/2012 08:26 PM, Will Drewry wrote:
>>
>> For x32 you have the option of introducing a new value or relying on bit
>> 30 in eax (and AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64).  The latter is more natural, probably.
> 
> Will that bit be visible as the syscall number or will it be stripped
> out before passing the number around?  If it's visible, then it
> doesn't seem like there'd need to be a new AUDIT_ARCH, but I suspect
> someone like Eric will have an actually useful opinion.
> 

Bit 30 is visible in orig_eax; whether you export it as part of "the
syscall number" is presumably TBD, but I think it's more natural to do so.

	-hpa

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