Re: Edited seccomp.2 man page for review [v2]

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 01/07/2015 01:23 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 01/07/2015 12:53 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> ...
>> Still hoping to hear from Will Drewy regarding this FIXME in the
>> page source:
>>
>> .\" FIXME What is the significance of the line
>> .\"           ftest->code = BPF_LDX | BPF_W | BPF_ABS;
>> .\"       in kernel/seccomp.c::seccomp_check_filter()?
> 
> This came in from our rework via commit bd4cf0ed331a ("net: filter:
> rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set"), and
> is kernel-internal only, and unused in classic BPF. It translates
> into A = *(u32 *) (ctx + K) and will basically load an offset from
> the populated seccomp_data (= ctx) to A. For the man-page itself
> it has therefore no relevance, hope that clarifies it.

Thanks, Daniel.

Okay -- that was the last hurdle. The page should go out with the 
next man-pages release.

Cheers,

Michael




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