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Message-ID: <20190923094916.GB15355@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:49:16 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-um@...ts.infradead.org,
        x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seccomp: remove unused arg from secure_computing()

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 03:19:09PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> While touching seccomp code I realized that the struct seccomp_data
> argument to secure_computing() seems to be unused by all current
> callers. So let's remove it unless there is some subtlety I missed.
> Note, I only tested this on x86.

What was amluto thinking in

2f275de5d1ed ("seccomp: Add a seccomp_data parameter secure_computing()")

?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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