Re: [RFC,PATCH 1/2] seccomp_filters: system call filtering using BPF

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Will Drewry <wad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 01/16, Will Drewry wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Yes, thanks, I forgot about compat tasks again. But this is easy, just
>>> > we need regs_64_to_32().
>>>
>>> Yup - we could make the assumption that is_compat_task is always
>>> 32-bit and the pt_regs is always 64-bit, then copy_and_truncate with
>>> regs_64_to_32.  Seems kinda wonky though :/
>>
>> much simpler/faster than what regset does to create the artificial
>> user_regs_struct32.
>
> True, I could collapse pt_regs to looks like the exported ABI pt_regs.
>  Then only compat processes would get the copy overhead.  That could
> be tidy and not break ABI.  It would mean that I have to assume that
> if unsigned long == 64-bit and is_compat_task(), then the task is
> 32-bit.  Do you think if we ever add a crazy 128-bit "supercomputer"
> arch that we will add a is_compat64_task() so that I could properly
> collapse? :)
>
> I like this idea!

Ouch, so a few issues:
- pt_regs isn't exported for most arches
- is_compat_task arches would need custom fixups

I think Indan takes this round :) I'll being integrating a
syscall_get_arguments approach.  Hopefully it can be quite efficient.

cheers!
will
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