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Message-ID: <54AD2983.2060108@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:41:39 +0100
From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
CC: mtk.manpages@...il.com, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-man@...r.kernel.org" <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, ast@...mgrid.com
Subject: Re: Edited seccomp.2 man page for review [v2]
On 01/07/2015 01:23 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 01/07/2015 12:53 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> ...
>> Still hoping to hear from Will Drewy regarding this FIXME in the
>> page source:
>>
>> .\" FIXME What is the significance of the line
>> .\" ftest->code = BPF_LDX | BPF_W | BPF_ABS;
>> .\" in kernel/seccomp.c::seccomp_check_filter()?
>
> This came in from our rework via commit bd4cf0ed331a ("net: filter:
> rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set"), and
> is kernel-internal only, and unused in classic BPF. It translates
> into A = *(u32 *) (ctx + K) and will basically load an offset from
> the populated seccomp_data (= ctx) to A. For the man-page itself
> it has therefore no relevance, hope that clarifies it.
Thanks, Daniel.
Okay -- that was the last hurdle. The page should go out with the
next man-pages release.
Cheers,
Michael
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