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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 20:47:16 +0200
From: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To: Eric Paris <netdev@...isplace.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, 
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	eric.dumazet@...il.com, markus@...omium.org, coreyb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, 
	keescook@...omium.org
Subject: Re: seccomp and ptrace. what is the correct order?

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Eric Paris <netdev@...isplace.org> wrote:
> Is that what we want?  Do we want to do the permission check based on
> what a process ask at syscall enter or do we want to do the permission
> check based on what the kernel is actually going to do on behalf of
> the process?

I think we want the latter.
A system call emulator like UserModeLinux would benefit from that.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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