Re: [PATCH] seccomp: Use -1 marker for end of mode 1 syscall list

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On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 12:37 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The terminator for the mode 1 syscalls list was a 0, but that could be
> a valid syscall number (e.g. x86_64 __NR_read). By luck, __NR_read was
> listed first and the loop construct would not test it, so there was no
> bug. However, this is fragile. Replace the terminator with -1 instead,
> and make the variable name for mode 1 syscall lists more descriptive.

Could the architecture instead supply the length of the list?

--Andy



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