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

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 10:59 -0500, Will Drewry wrote:

quoted

 include/linux/ftrace_event.h  |    4 +-
 include/linux/perf_event.h    |   10 +++++---
 kernel/perf_event.c           |   49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/seccomp.c              |    8 ++++++
 kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++-----
 5 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) 

I strongly oppose to the perf core being mixed with any sekurity voodoo
(or any other active role for that matter).

Amen. We have enough crap to cleanup in perf/ftrace already, so we
really do not need security magic added to it.

Thanks,

	tglx