[libseccomp-discuss] [PATCH v2] seccomp: not compatible with ARM OABI

Paul Moore pmoore at redhat.com
Fri Nov 8 13:23:53 EST 2013


On Friday, November 08, 2013 08:39:29 AM Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Paul Moore <pmoore at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:05:26 AM Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > Isn't x32 similarly screwy?  Does it work because the syscall numbers
> >> > are different?
> >> 
> >> Yes (from reading the code -- I haven't actually tried it).
> > 
> > I've got a x32 VM that I boot occasionally to test seccomp/libseccomp. 
> > For the purposes of seccomp it looks exactly like x86_64, including
> > sharing the same AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64 value, the only difference being the
> > syscall number offset ... Assuming you're using kernel 3.9 or later. 
> > Previous kernels had a bug which stripped the x32 syscall offset so it was
> > impossible to distinguish from x86_64 and x32 with seccomp.  See the
> > following commit for the details:
>
> Ooh -- where did you get this?  (I imagine I could debootstrap such a
> beast and then just chroot / nspawn / schroot in, but if there are
> readily available images, that would be great.  Fedora doesn't seem to
> have much x32 support.)

I built up a small Gentoo image:

 * http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/current-stage3

-- 
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat




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