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From: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:41:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150930184129.GB23065@smitten> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrUosV+ND1BC-qH3xZMaLwnex50SvMhaSa3FQ19oy1MBVg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:25:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Tycho Andersen
> <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> wrote:
> > This command allows comparing the underling private data of two fds. This
> > is useful e.g. to find out if a seccomp filter is inherited, since struct
> > seccomp_filter are unique across tasks and are the private_data seccomp
> > fds.
> 
> This is very implementation-specific and may have nasty ABI
> consequences far outside seccomp.  Let's do something specific to
> seccomp and/or eBPF.

We could change the name to a less generic KCMP_SECCOMP_FD or
something, but without some sort of GUID on each struct
seccomp_filter, the implementation would be effectively the same as it
is today. Is that enough, or do we need a GUID?

Tycho

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-30 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-30 18:13 checkpoint/restore of seccomp filters v3 Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] seccomp: save the original filter Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:13 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD Tycho Andersen
     [not found]   ` <1443636820-17083-3-git-send-email-tycho.andersen-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-30 18:27     ` Andy Lutomirski
     [not found]       ` <CALCETrXkG6QCx9ptyN+VWrjgoTvwZAOfa-pWhS4iCZ=fpm6YnQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-30 18:36         ` Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:47           ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 18:29     ` kbuild test robot
2015-09-30 18:13 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] seccomp: add a ptrace command to get seccomp filter fds Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:13 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen
     [not found]   ` <1443636820-17083-5-git-send-email-tycho.andersen-Z7WLFzj8eWMS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
2015-09-30 18:25     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 18:41       ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2015-09-30 18:47         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 18:55           ` Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:56             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 21:39               ` Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 21:48                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-30 22:10                   ` Tycho Andersen
     [not found]                   ` <CALCETrW9-bpUd+quFF7fBjbBLS84VDT4dmBS=-cVe6+9S-DenA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2015-10-01 16:45                     ` Tycho Andersen
2015-09-30 18:13 ` [PATCH v3 5/5] bpf: save the program the user actually supplied Tycho Andersen

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