linux-kernel - Re: v5 of seccomp filter c/r patches

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Message-ID: <20151002225915.GP23065@smitten>
Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:59:15 -0600
From:	Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@...onical.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v5 of seccomp filter c/r patches

On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 12:57:49AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 10/03/2015 12:44 AM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 02:10:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> ...
> >Ok, how about,
> >
> >struct sock_filter insns[BPF_MAXINSNS];
> >insn_cnt = ptrace(PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, pid, insns, i);
> 
> Would also be good that when the storage buffer (insns) is NULL,
> it just returns you the number of sock_filter insns (or 0 when
> nothing attached).
> 
> That would be consistent with classic socket filters (see
> sk_get_filter()), and user space could allocate a specific
> size instead of always passing in max insns.

Yep, the current set does this with SECCOMP_FD_DUMP and I agree that
it's nice behavior, so I'll plan on preserving it.

Thanks,

Tycho
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