From ff27f38e0ef978aee4c9f7e3a4f3403aae832de2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:49:17 -0700 Subject: seccomp: Document two-phase seccomp and arch-provided seccomp_data The description of how archs should implement seccomp filters was still strictly correct, but it failed to describe the newly available optimizations. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- arch/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch') diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 0eae9df35b88..05d7a8a458d5 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -323,6 +323,17 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER results in the system call being skipped immediately. - seccomp syscall wired up + For best performance, an arch should use seccomp_phase1 and + seccomp_phase2 directly. It should call seccomp_phase1 for all + syscalls if TIF_SECCOMP is set, but seccomp_phase1 does not + need to be called from a ptrace-safe context. It must then + call seccomp_phase2 if seccomp_phase1 returns anything other + than SECCOMP_PHASE1_OK or SECCOMP_PHASE1_SKIP. + + As an additional optimization, an arch may provide seccomp_data + directly to seccomp_phase1; this avoids multiple calls + to the syscall_xyz helpers for every syscall. + config SECCOMP_FILTER def_bool y depends on HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER && SECCOMP && NET -- cgit v1.2.3