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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] seccomp.2: document userspace notification
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> 7. The monitoring process can use the information in the
> 'struct seccomp_notif' to make a determination about the
> system call being made by the target process. This
> structure includes a 'data' field that is the same
> 'struct seccomp_data' that is passed to a BPF filter.
>
> In addition, the monitoring process may make use of other
> information that is available from user space. For example,
> it may inspect the memory of the target process (whose PID
> is provided in the 'struct seccomp_notif') using
> /proc/PID/mem, which includes inspecting the values
> pointed to by system call arguments (whose location is
> available 'seccomp_notif.data.args). However, when using
> the target process PID in this way, one must guard against
> PID re-use race conditions using the seccomp()
> SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID operation.
>
> 8. Having arrived at a decision about the target process's
> system call, the monitoring process can inform the kernel
> of its decision using the operation
>
> ioctl(listenfd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND, respptr)
>
> where the third argument is a pointer to a
> 'struct seccomp_notif_resp'. [Some more details
> needed here, but I still don't yet understand fully
> the semantics of the 'error' and 'val' fields.]

So clearly, I misunderstood these last two steps.

(7) is something like: discover information in userspace
as required; perform userspace actions if appropriate
(perhaps doing the system call operation "on behalf of" the
target process).


(8) is something like:
set 'error' and 'val' to return info to the target process:
* error != 0 ==> make it look like the syscall failed,
with 'errno' set to that value
* error == 0 ==> make it look like the syscall succeeded
and returned 'val'

Right?

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

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