Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2009-05-08

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

From: Andi Kleen <hidden>
Date: 2009-05-08 19:18:59
Also in: linux-mips, lkml, sparclinux

"Markus Gutschke (ÜÒÐ)" [off-list ref] writes:
There are a large number of system calls that "normal" C/C++ code uses
quite frequently, and that are not security sensitive. A typical
example would be gettimeofday().
At least on x86-64 gettimeofday() (and time(2)) work inside seccomp because 
they're vsyscalls that run in ring 3 only.

-Andi

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