[PATCH v10 0/11] seccomp: add thread sync ability

Oleg Nesterov oleg at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 09:49:31 PDT 2014


On 07/10, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> This adds the ability for threads to request seccomp filter
> synchronization across their thread group (at filter attach time).
> For example, for Chrome to make sure graphic driver threads are fully
> confined after seccomp filters have been attached.
>
> To support this, locking on seccomp changes via thread-group-shared
> sighand lock is introduced, along with refactoring of no_new_privs. Races
> with thread creation are handled via delayed duplication of the seccomp
> task struct field and cred_guard_mutex.
>
> This includes a new syscall (instead of adding a new prctl option),
> as suggested by Andy Lutomirski and Michael Kerrisk.

I do not not see any problems in this version,

Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>




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