The documentation had some previously incorrect information about how userspace notifications (and responses) were handled due to a change from a previously proposed patchset. Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst index bd9165241b6c..6efb41cc8072 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst @@ -250,14 +250,14 @@ Users can read via ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV)`` (or ``poll()``) on a seccomp notification fd to receive a ``struct seccomp_notif``, which contains five members: the input length of the structure, a unique-per-filter ``id``, the ``pid`` of the task which triggered this request (which may be 0 if the -task is in a pid ns not visible from the listener's pid namespace), a ``flags`` -member which for now only has ``SECCOMP_NOTIF_FLAG_SIGNALED``, representing -whether or not the notification is a result of a non-fatal signal, and the -``data`` passed to seccomp. Userspace can then make a decision based on this -information about what to do, and ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND)`` a -response, indicating what should be returned to userspace. The ``id`` member of -``struct seccomp_notif_resp`` should be the same ``id`` as in ``struct -seccomp_notif``. +task is in a pid ns not visible from the listener's pid namespace). The +notification also contains the ``data`` passed to seccomp, and a filters flag. +The structure should be zeroed out prior to calling the ioctl. + +Userspace can then make a decision based on this information about what to do, +and ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND)`` a response, indicating what should be +returned to userspace. The ``id`` member of ``struct seccomp_notif_resp`` should +be the same ``id`` as in ``struct seccomp_notif``. It is worth noting that ``struct seccomp_data`` contains the values of register arguments to the syscall, but does not contain pointers to memory. The task's -- 2.25.1
