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From: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: seccomp for 2.6.11-rc1-bk8
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:59:20 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <csrje8$bsn$1@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20050121093902.O469@build.pdx.osdl.net

Chris Wright  wrote:
>Only difference is in number of context switches, and number of running
>processes (and perhaps ease of determining policy for which syscalls
>are allowed).  Although it's not really seccomp, it's just restricted
>syscalls...

There is a simple tweak to ptrace which fixes that: one could add an
API to specify a set of syscalls that ptrace should not trap on.  To get
seccomp-like semantics, the user program could specify {read,write}, but
if the user program ever wants to change its policy, it could change that
set.  Solaris /proc (which is what is used for tracing) has this feature.
I coded up such an extension to ptrace semantics a long time ago, and
it seemed to work fine for me, though of course I am not a ptrace expert.

I don't know whether ptrace + this tweak is a better idea than seccomp.
It is just another option out there that achieves similar functionality.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-21 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-21 10:06 seccomp for 2.6.11-rc1-bk8 Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 12:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21 12:47   ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21 12:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21 21:31       ` Roland McGrath
2005-01-22  3:25         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 20:24     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 17:39   ` Chris Wright
2005-01-21 18:39     ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-21 18:50       ` Chris Wright
2005-01-21 19:55         ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-21 20:34           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 20:54             ` Ingo Molnar
2005-01-22  2:51               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-22 10:32             ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-22 17:25               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-22 19:42                 ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-22 23:34                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-23  0:07                     ` Pavel Machek
2005-01-23  0:46                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-23  0:43                     ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-23  0:52                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-23  4:43                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-23  6:11                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-01-21 18:59     ` David Wagner [this message]
2005-01-21 19:17       ` Chris Wright
2005-01-23  7:34         ` David Wagner
2005-01-24 15:10           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-15  9:25           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-02-25 19:01             ` David Wagner
2005-01-21 12:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-15  9:32 ` seccomp for 2.6.11-rc4 Andrea Arcangeli
2005-02-16  5:25   ` Herbert Poetzl
2005-02-18  2:25     ` Andrea Arcangeli

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