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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: fsyscall
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:28:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150910132809.GA27602@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHse=S-9oORtSHoNx1Hety1oC=unmWAxw_REUOLeQhaf3im_Kw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 06:27:06PM +0100, David Drysdale wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> > Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> writes:
> > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> (From this perspective, the limitation that seccomp-bpf programs only
> have access to syscall arguments by-value is actually a help -- the filter
> can't look into user memory, so can't be fooled by having memory
> contents changed underneath it.  Of course, if the eBPF stuff ever
> changes that we should watch out...)

Yup and I'm quite sure I've seen that raised as a reason to refuse
supporting exactly that.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-09-10 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-08 22:35 RFC: fsyscall Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-08 22:55 ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-08 23:07   ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-08 23:18     ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-09-09  0:25       ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-09 17:27         ` David Drysdale
2015-09-09 19:33           ` Eric W. Biederman
2015-09-10 13:35             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-09-10 13:28           ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2015-09-10 13:43         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-09-10 13:51           ` David Drysdale
2015-09-10 14:01             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-09-10 14:03               ` Serge E. Hallyn
2015-09-10 14:04                 ` Serge E. Hallyn

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