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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: md@google.com (Michael Davidson)
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: prevent binaries from making system calls using the wrong syscall interface
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:14:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807071427.38191c79@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807003459.37CC629624@localhost>

On Wed,  6 Aug 2008 17:34:59 -0700 (PDT)
md@google.com (Michael Davidson) wrote:

> Prevent binaries from making system calls using other than one
> of the "normal" system call interfaces for that binary type.


since you can have mixed 32 / 64 binaries just fine I don't think your
patch is the right thing to do in general.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07  0:34 Michael Davidson
2008-08-07  7:49 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-07  7:50 ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-08-07 10:15 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-07 14:14 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2008-08-08  6:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-08 11:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-08 16:09   ` Michael Davidson

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