linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] seccomp: prepare seccomp_run_filters() to support more than one listener

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Message-ID: <CAEivzxeMG=+_KmmvksZtgeVePcXPx7SO=fDekh5fU=F0rHvdGQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 12:58:14 +0100
From: Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...nel.org>
Cc: kees@...nel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>, 
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Stéphane Graber <stgraber@...raber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/6] seccomp: prepare seccomp_run_filters() to support
 more than one listener

On Mon, Dec 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM Tycho Andersen <tycho@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * struct seccomp_filter_matches - container for seccomp filter match results
> > + *
> > + * @n: A number of filters matched.
> > + * @filters: An array of (struct seccomp_filter) pointers.
> > + *        Holds pointers to filters that matched during evaluation.
> > + *        A first one in the array is the one with the least permissive
> > + *        action result.
> > + *
> > + * If final action result is less (or more) permissive than SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF,
> > + * only the most restrictive filter is stored in the array's first element.
> > + * If final action result is SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF, we need to track
> > + * all filters that resulted in the same action to support multiple listeners
> > + * in seccomp tree.
> > + */
> > +struct seccomp_filter_matches {
> > +     unsigned char n;
> > +     struct seccomp_filter *filters[MAX_LISTENERS_PER_PATH];
>
> Maybe a __counted_by() for this?

I thought that __counted_by() only makes sense for flex arrays, while
in this case we have a static array.

Kind regards,
Alex

>
> Tycho