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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:07:05 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
CC: Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>, Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 05/11] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF
On 02/22/2012 03:51 PM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Indan Zupancic <indan@....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.
>
No it couldn't, because we mask off the high 32 bits and thus it could
(theoretically) break user space.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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