On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:04:23AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> This is the final bit needed to support seccomp filters created via the bpf
> syscall.
> 
> One concern with this patch is exactly what the interface should look like
> for users, since seccomp()'s second argument is a pointer, we could ask
> people to pass a pointer to the fd, but implies we might write to it which
> seems impolite. Right now we cast the pointer (and force the user to cast
> it), which generates ugly warnings. I'm not sure what the right answer is
> here.

I think passing &fd is fine. setsockopt does similar things.

> -#define SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_MASK     (SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC)
> +#define SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_MASK     (\
> +     SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC | SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_EBPF)
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_SECCOMP
>  
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> index 0f238a4..c29a423 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
>  
>  /* Valid flags for SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER */
>  #define SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC    1
> +#define SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_EBPF     (1 << 1)
...
> -     prepared = seccomp_prepare_user_filter(filter);
> +     if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_EBPF)
> +             prepared = seccomp_prepare_ebpf(filter);
> +     else
> +             prepared = seccomp_prepare_user_filter(filter);
> +

I think instead of flag for existing SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER
command, it would have been cleaner to add new command
SECCOMP_SET_MODE_BPF
and pass &fd to it.
Both kernel implementation and user side would look better ?

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