[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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