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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/4] seccomp trap to userspace
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> On Aug 6, 2018, at 7:44 PM, Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Dinesh Subhraveti has claimed that some part of this series might be
> patented. While he has not furnished me with anything to confirm this
> claim, I'll put this series on hold.

That... is utterly ridiculous. Does LF have a mechanism to figure out wtf and deal with it by, for example, filing for ex parte review.

Every microkernel ever should strongly resemble prior art.

>
> Tycho
>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 04:04:12PM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's v4 of the seccomp trap to userspace series. v3 is here:
>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/31/527
>>
>> I believe we've addressed the two burning questions I had about v3: 1.
>> it seems ok not to use netlink, since there's not a great way to re-use
>> the API without a lot of unnecessary code and 2. only having return
>> capability for fds seems fine with people. Or at least I haven't heard
>> any strong objections.
>>
>> I've re-worked a bunch of things in this version based on feedback from
>> the last series. See patch notes for details. At this point I'm not
>> aware of anything that needs to be addressed, but of course that is
>> subject to change :)
>>
>> Tycho
>>
>> Tycho Andersen (4):
>> seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace
>> seccomp: make get_nth_filter available outside of CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
>> seccomp: add a way to get a listener fd from ptrace
>> seccomp: add support for passing fds via USER_NOTIF
>>
>> .../userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst | 79 +++
>> arch/Kconfig | 7 +
>> include/linux/seccomp.h | 18 +-
>> include/uapi/linux/ptrace.h | 2 +
>> include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h | 23 +-
>> kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +
>> kernel/seccomp.c | 491 ++++++++++++++-
>> tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/seccomp_bpf.c | 560 +++++++++++++++++-
>> 8 files changed, 1172 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>

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