On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Andy Lutomirski <l...@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> In seccomp_prepare_user_filter, would it make sense to return -EINVAL
>> if !user_filter?  That will make it slightly more pleasant to
>> implement TSYNC-without-change if anyone ever wants it.  (This isn't
>> really necessary -- it's just slightly more polite.)
>
> I can't do this since EFAULT is already used to detect seccomp
> capabilities from userspace.

Aha.  In that case, can you (separately) send a prctl.2 manpage patch
documenting that?  Also, I'm pretty sure you can get away with doing
this for seccomp(2) -- EINVAL and ENOSYS are easily distinguishable,
but the current behavior is IMO also fine if documented.

--Andy
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