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Date:   Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:35:21 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@...il.com>
Cc:     Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 seccomp 5/5] seccomp/cache: Report cache data through /proc/pid/seccomp_cache

Hi YiFei,

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 7:34 PM YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 6:14 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > Should there be a dependency on SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE?
> > Should all architectures that implement seccomp have this?
> >
> > E.g. mips does select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER, but doesn't
> > have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE?
> >
> > (noticed with preliminary out-of-tree seccomp implementation for m68k,
> >  which doesn't have SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE
>
> You are correct. This specific patch in this series was not applied,
> and this was addressed in a follow up patch series [1]. MIPS does not
> define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE because the bitmap expects syscall numbers
> to start from 0, whereas MIPS does not (defines
> CONFIG_HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR). The follow up patch makes it so that
> any arch with HAVE_SPARSE_SYSCALL_NR (currently just MIPS) cannot have
> CONFIG_SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG on, by the depend on clause.
>
> I see that you are doing an out of tree seccomp implementation for
> m68k. Assuming unchanged arch/xtensa/include/asm/syscall.h, something
> like this to arch/m68k/include/asm/seccomp.h should make it work:
>
> #define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE        AUDIT_ARCH_M68K
> #define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NR        NR_syscalls
> #define SECCOMP_ARCH_NATIVE_NAME    "m68k"
>
> If the file does not exist already, arch/xtensa/include/asm/seccomp.h
> is a good example of how the file should look like, and remember to
> remove `generic-y += seccomp.h` from arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1605101222.git.yifeifz2@illinois.edu/T/

Thank you for your extensive explanation.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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