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SubjectRe: [PATCH v10 05/11] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Indan Zupancic <indan@nul.nu> wrote:
> On Wed, February 22, 2012 20:47, Will Drewry wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Ben Hutchings
>>> I would have thought the way to make sure the architecture is always
>>> checked is to pack it together with the syscall number.
>
> I missed that suggestion, putting the syscall number and arch in one
> data field would indeed make it harder to not check the arch.

Is there enough room? On x86-64 at least, rax could conceivably be
extended to 64 bits some day. Bit 30 is already spoken for by x32.

--Andy


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