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Re: [PATCH v11 net-next 00/12] eBPF syscall, verifier, testsuite

From: Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
Date: 2014-09-10 17:48:27
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Daniel Borkmann [off-list ref] wrote:
When you pass in these structs with pointers in it to other user space
buffers, how do you handle this with mixed 32/64 bit user/kernel space?
...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I think, that would currently break in
your syscall handler, no?
yes. compat stuff is not part of this diff.
I was thinking to handle it similar to the way signalfd deals with it:
add compat syscall, compat struct and convert it before going into
main entry point.
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