Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libseccomp: add cacheflush to whitelist

[Eduardo Otubo]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09=12=33AM -0400, Andrew Jones wrote:
> cacheflush is an arm-specific syscall that qemu built for arm
> uses. Add it to the whitelist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>
> 
> ---
> 
> I'm not sure about the priority selection. Maybe cacheflush gets
> used frequently enough that it deserves a higher one?

The frequency is measured using strace and comparing the frequency they
appear among other syscalls. Can you run this analysis and double check
if the lowest priority is still accurate?

Thanks for the patch.

> 
> This patch isn't really necessary yet due to ae6e8ef11e6c: "Revert
> seccomp tests that allow it to be used on non-x86 architectures",
> which we can't revert until libseccomp has released a fix for
> arm-specific syscall symbol naming, but when linking to a patched
> libseccomp and reverting ae6e8ef11e6c, then this patch allows
> guests to boot with '-sandbox on'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <address@hidden>
> ---
>  qemu-seccomp.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-seccomp.c b/qemu-seccomp.c
> index f9de0d3390feb..33644a4e3c3d3 100644
> --- a/qemu-seccomp.c
> +++ b/qemu-seccomp.c
> @@ -237,7 +237,8 @@ static const struct QemuSeccompSyscall 
> seccomp_whitelist[] = {
>      { SCMP_SYS(fadvise64), 240 },
>      { SCMP_SYS(inotify_init1), 240 },
>      { SCMP_SYS(inotify_add_watch), 240 },
> -    { SCMP_SYS(mbind), 240 }
> +    { SCMP_SYS(mbind), 240 },
> +    { SCMP_SYS(cacheflush), 240 },
>  };
>  
>  int seccomp_start(void)
> -- 
> 2.1.0
> 

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Eduardo Otubo
ProfitBricks GmbH

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