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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 resend] seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent
On Mon, 1 Oct 2012, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> This fixes two issues that could cause incompatibility between
> kernel versions:
>
> - If a tracer uses SECCOMP_RET_TRACE to select a syscall number
> higher than the largest known syscall, emulate the unknown
> vsyscall by returning -ENOSYS. (This is unlikely to make a
> noticeable difference on x86-64 due to the way the system call
> entry works.)
>
> - On x86-64 with vsyscall=emulate, skipped vsyscalls were buggy.
>
> This updates the documentation accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> Acked-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-queue



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