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Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:40:51 -0600
From: Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/8] seccomp: add system call filtering using BPF

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 08:26 PM, Will Drewry wrote:
>>>
>>> For x32 you have the option of introducing a new value or relying on bit
>>> 30 in eax (and AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64).  The latter is more natural, probably.
>>
>> Will that bit be visible as the syscall number or will it be stripped
>> out before passing the number around?  If it's visible, then it
>> doesn't seem like there'd need to be a new AUDIT_ARCH, but I suspect
>> someone like Eric will have an actually useful opinion.
>>
>
> Bit 30 is visible in orig_eax; whether you export it as part of "the
> syscall number" is presumably TBD, but I think it's more natural to do so.

That's what I meant - thanks!

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