[PATCH] seccomp: not compatible with ARM OABI

Will Drewry wad at chromium.org
Wed Nov 6 22:26:15 EST 2013


Thanks!

Reviewed-By: Will Drewry <wad at chromium.org>

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org> wrote:
> Make sure that seccomp filter won't be built when ARM OABI is in use,
> since there is work needed to distinguish calling conventions. Until
> that is done (which is likely never since OABI is deprecated), make
> sure seccomp filter is unavailable in the OABI compat world.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> ---
>  arch/Kconfig |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
> index af2cc6eabcc7..6eaca7d92399 100644
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -331,12 +331,15 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
>
>  config SECCOMP_FILTER
>         def_bool y
> -       depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET
> +       depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET && !OABI_COMPAT
>         help
>           Enable tasks to build secure computing environments defined
>           in terms of Berkeley Packet Filter programs which implement
>           task-defined system call filtering polices.
>
> +         Not available on ARM when built with OABI compatibility due to
> +         lack of a sensible way to distinguish the calling conventions.
> +
>           See Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt for details.
>
>  config HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Chrome OS Security



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