From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
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Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>,
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support compiling out the prctl syscall
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 01:26:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3032452.SC5nD8WpIB@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.c693f10dfc19e12c214758e4b13ca9b4e4cf9668.1478650356.git-series.josh@joshtriplett.org>
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 4:17:47 PM CET Josh Triplett wrote:
> Some embedded systems can do without the prctl syscall, saving some space.
>
> This also avoids regular increases in tinyconfig size as people add more
> non-optional functionality to prctl (observed via the 0-day kernel
> infrastructure).
>
> The first patch moves prctl and all its helpers into a separate source file,
> kernel/prctl.c, to allow making it optional via the Makefile without any
> ifdefs. The second patch adds the Kconfig option to make prctl optional.
>
> Josh Triplett (2):
> kernel: Move prctl and helpers from kernel/sys.c to new kernel/prctl.c
> kernel: Support compiling out the prctl syscall
>
Both of these look really nice to me. Another syscall that comes to
mind as a candidate to be made optional is ptrace, and I've added
Nicolas Pitre to Cc here, as he has looked into this before.
Another area to look at may be syscalls that are always defined
but that are no longer part of the default syscall table in
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. Maybe we can have a single
conditional for those.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-09 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-09 0:17 [PATCH 0/2] Support compiling out the prctl syscall Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] kernel: Move prctl and helpers from kernel/sys.c to new kernel/prctl.c Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-11-09 7:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2016-11-09 0:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] kernel: Support compiling out the prctl syscall Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:40 ` Kees Cook
2016-11-09 0:47 ` Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:56 ` Kees Cook
2016-11-09 1:08 ` Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:26 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-11-09 3:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Josh Triplett
2016-11-09 0:30 ` Nicolas Pitre
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