Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 09:13:48 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] [RFC] seccomp: give BPF x32 bit when restoring x32 filter |
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On 07/11/2014 09:11 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 09:06:02 PM H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Incidentally: do seccomp users know that on an x86-64 system you can >> recevie system calls from any of the x86 architectures, regardless of >> how the program is invoked? (This is unusual, so normally denying those >> "alien" calls is the right thing to do.) > > I obviously can't speak for all seccomp users, but libseccomp handles this by > checking the seccomp_data->arch value at the start of the filter and killing > (by default) any non-native architectures. If you want, you can change this > default behavior or add support for other architectures (e.g. create a filter > that allows both x86-64 and x32 but disallows x86, or any combination of the > three for that matter). >
OK, that seems reasonable.
-hpa
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