linux-kernel - Re: [PULL] seccomp update (3.17)

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Date:	Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:50:55 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Julien Tinnes <jln@...omium.org>,
	David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PULL] seccomp update (3.17)

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 07:49:55AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> No worries -- the only user of the seccomp syscall that I know of is
> the seccomp regression testing suite, and that'd be trivially to fix.
> 
> I would note that the seccomp series includes adding the syscall also
> to ARM and MIPS, so from a collision fixing perspective, it may be
> fewer edits to fix getrandom instead. :)

I've only wired up x86 and x86_64 for getrandom(2) so far.  I had
assumed the ARM and MIPS folks would prefer to wire up new syscalls on
their own...

					- Ted
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