linux-kernel - [PATCH] seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC

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Date:	Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:01:31 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	akpm@...l.org, andrea@...share.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC_FS

seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
---

 arch/x86/Kconfig |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1191,7 +1191,6 @@ config IRQBALANCE
 config SECCOMP
 	def_bool y
 	prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
-	depends on PROC_FS
 	help
 	  This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
 	  that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
@@ -1199,7 +1198,7 @@ config SECCOMP
 	  the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
 	  syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
 	  their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
-	  enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled
+	  enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
 	  and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
 	  defined by each seccomp mode.
 
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