[PATCH 3/5] v2 seccomp_filters: Enable ftrace-based system callfiltering
Ingo Molnar
mingo at elte.hu
Mon May 16 22:03:02 EST 2011
* David Laight <David.Laight at ACULAB.COM> wrote:
> [...] unfortunately it worked by looking at the user-space buffers on system
> call entry - and a multithreaded program can easily arrange to update them
> after the initial check! [...]
Such problems of reliability/persistency of security checks is exactly one of
my arguments why this should not be limited to the syscall boundary, if you
read the example i have provided in this discussion.
Thanks,
Ingo
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