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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:43:34 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        kees.cook@canonical.com, eparis@redhat.com, agl@chromium.org,
        jmorris@namei.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
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        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] seccomp_filter: Document what seccomp_filter is and
 how it works.
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Quoting Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu):
> I've Cc:-ed Linus and Andrew: are you guys opposed to such flexible, dynamic 
> filters conceptually? I think we should really think hard about the actual ABI 
> as this could easily spread to more applications than Chrome/Chromium.

We want to use it for containers, to try and provide some bit of
mitigation for the fact that they are sharing a kernel with the host.

thanks,
-serge
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