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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] seccomp.2: document userspace notification
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On 3/1/19 4:19 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 04:16:27PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Tycho,
>>
>> On 3/1/19 3:53 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 01:52:19PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>>>> +a notification will be sent to this fd. See "Userspace Notification" below for
>>>>
>>>> s/fd/file descriptor/ throughout please.
>>>
>>> Will do.
>>>
>>>>> +more details.
>>>>
>>>> I think the description here could be better worded as something like:
>>>>
>>>> SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER
>>>> Register a new filter, as usual, but on success return a
>>>> new file descriptor that provides user-space notifications.
>>>> When the filter returns SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF, a notification
>>>> will be provided via this file descriptor. The close-on-exec
>>>> flag is automatically set on the new file descriptor. ...
>>>>
>>>>> .RE
>>>>> .TP
>>>>> .BR SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL " (since Linux 4.14)"
>>>>> @@ -606,6 +613,17 @@ file.
>>>>> .TP
>>>>> .BR SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW
>>>>> This value results in the system call being executed.
>>>>> +.TP
>>>>> +.BR SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF " (since Linux 4.21)"
>>>>
>>>> Please see the start of this hanging list in the manual page.
>>>> Can you confirm that SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF really is the lowest
>>>> in the precedence order of all of the filter return values?
>>>
>>> Oh, no, I didn't realize it was in a particular order. I'll switch it.
>>
>> Just for my immediate education (I'm experimenting right now),
>> where/how does it fit in the precedence order?
>
> In between RET_ERRNO and RET_TRACE; see include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> for details.

Confirmed by experiment :-).

Cheers,

Michael


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Michael Kerrisk
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