Re: [PATCH 3/5] v2 seccomp_filters: Enable ftrace-based system call filtering

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:

Funnily enough, back then you wrote this:

  " I'm concerned that we're seeing yet another security scheme being designed on 
    the fly, without a well-formed threat model, and without taking into account 
    lessons learned from the seemingly endless parade of similar, failed schemes. "

so when and how did your opinion of this scheme turn from it being an "endless 
parade of failed schemes" to it being a "well-defined and readily 
understandable feature"? :-)

When it was defined in a way which limited its purpose to reducing the 
attack surface of the sycall interface.


- James
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