[patch 11/18] seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return boolean

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Wed, Jul 08 2026 at 09:43, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> On 7/8/2026 3:06 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> As Ada pointed out, the description of secure_computing in arch/Kconfig
> need to be updated, a possible suggestion:
>
> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> @@ -636,8 +636,8 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
>           - syscall_rollback()
>           - syscall_set_return_value()
>           - SIGSYS siginfo_t support
> -         - secure_computing is called from a ptrace_event()-safe context
> -         - secure_computing return value is checked and a return value
> of -1
> +         - seccomp_permits_syscall is called from a ptrace_event()-safe
> context
> +         - seccomp_permits_syscall return value is checked and if false

Makes sense.
>>  		if (__seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true))
>> -			return -1;
>> +			return false;
>
> The return value of __seccomp_filter is checked in the wrong way, check
> -1 should be replaced with check false, maybe:
>
> -               if (__seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true))
> -                       return -1;
> +               if (!__seccomp_filter(this_syscall, true))
> +                       return false;

Ooops.