[RFC 5/5] x86,seccomp: Add a seccomp fastpath

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 03:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 3:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
>>> On 06/11/2014 02:56 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 13ns is with the simplest nonempty filter.  I hope that empty filters
>>>> don't work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why wouldn't they?
>>
>> Is it permissible to fall off the end of a BPF program?  I'm getting
>> EINVAL trying to install an actual empty filter.  The filter I tested
>> with was:
>>
>
> What I meant was that there has to be a well-defined behavior for the
> program falling off the end anyway, and that that should be preserved.
>
> I guess it is possible to require that all code paths must provably
> reach a termination point.
>

Dunno.  I haven't ever touched any of the actual BPF code.  This whole
patchset only changes the code that invokes the BPF evaluator.

--Andy