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

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Sat May 9 05:18:44 EST 2009


"Markus Gutschke (ÜÒÐ)" <markus at google.com> writes:
>
> There are a large number of system calls that "normal" C/C++ code uses
> quite frequently, and that are not security sensitive. A typical
> example would be gettimeofday().

At least on x86-64 gettimeofday() (and time(2)) work inside seccomp because 
they're vsyscalls that run in ring 3 only.

-Andi

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