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[PATCH 3/5] v2 seccomp_filters: Enable ftrace-based system callfiltering

From: Ingo Molnar <hidden>
Date: 2011-05-16 12:03:02
Also in: linux-mips, linuxppc-dev

* David Laight [off-list ref] wrote:
[...] unfortunately it worked by looking at the user-space buffers on system 
call entry - and a multithreaded program can easily arrange to update them 
after the initial check! [...]
Such problems of reliability/persistency of security checks is exactly one of 
my arguments why this should not be limited to the syscall boundary, if you 
read the example i have provided in this discussion.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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