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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>, Al Viro <aviro@redhat.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] seccomp: give BPF x32 bit when restoring x32 filter
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:13:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C00D3C.7080808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1458762.ra4TnS54ZN@sifl>

On 07/11/2014 09:11 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 09:06:02 PM H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Incidentally: do seccomp users know that on an x86-64 system you can
>> recevie system calls from any of the x86 architectures, regardless of
>> how the program is invoked?  (This is unusual, so normally denying those
>> "alien" calls is the right thing to do.)
> 
> I obviously can't speak for all seccomp users, but libseccomp handles this by 
> checking the seccomp_data->arch value at the start of the filter and killing 
> (by default) any non-native architectures.  If you want, you can change this 
> default behavior or add support for other architectures (e.g. create a filter 
> that allows both x86-64 and x32 but disallows x86, or any combination of the 
> three for that matter).
> 

OK, that seems reasonable.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11  3:38 [PATCH 0/3] [RFC] X32: fix syscall_get_nr while not breaking seccomp BPF Richard Guy Briggs
2014-07-11  3:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] [RFC] audit: add AUDIT_ARCH_X86_X32 arch definition Richard Guy Briggs
2014-07-11 16:15   ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11  3:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] seccomp: give BPF x32 bit when restoring x32 filter Richard Guy Briggs
2014-07-11  4:06   ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-11 16:11     ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11 16:13       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-07-11 16:16       ` Eric Paris
2014-07-11 16:21         ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11 16:23           ` Eric Paris
2014-07-11 16:30             ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-11 16:32             ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11 18:31               ` Eric Paris
2014-07-11 19:36                 ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11 22:48                   ` Kees Cook
2014-07-11 22:52                     ` Kees Cook
2014-07-11 22:55                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-11 23:02                         ` Kees Cook
2014-07-11 23:12                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-11 16:36   ` Paul Moore
2014-07-11 16:44     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-07-11  3:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] Revert "x86: remove the x32 syscall bitmask from syscall_get_nr()" Richard Guy Briggs

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