[stable] [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

Arjan van de Ven arjan at infradead.org
Sun Mar 1 04:54:33 EST 2009


On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:46:01 -0800
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > But here is the patch you asked for.
> > 
> > Yes, this looks much more straightforward. 
> > 
> > And I guess the seccomp interaction means that this is potentially
> > a 2.6.29 thing. Not that I know whether anybody actually _uses_
> > seccomp. It does seem to be enabled in at least Fedora kernels, but
> > it might not be used anywhere.
> 
> It's enabled in SuSE kernels.
> 

but are there users of it?
I thought Andrea stopped the cpushare thing that was the only user of
this....


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