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NAME

       seccomp - operate on Secure Computing state of the process

SYNOPSIS

       #include <linux/seccomp.h>
       #include <linux/filter.h>
       #include <linux/audit.h>
       #include <linux/signal.h>
       #include <sys/ptrace.h>

       int seccomp(unsigned int operation, unsigned int flags, void *args);

DESCRIPTION

       The seccomp() system call operates on the Secure Computing (seccomp) state of the calling process.

       Currently, Linux supports the following operation values:

       SECCOMP_SET_MODE_STRICT
              The only system calls that the calling thread is permitted to make are read(2), write(2), _exit(2)
              (but not exit_group(2)), and sigreturn(2).  Other system calls result in the delivery of a SIGKILL
              signal.  Strict secure computing mode is useful for number-crunching applications that may need to
              execute untrusted byte code, perhaps obtained by reading from a pipe or socket.

              Note that although the calling thread can no longer call sigprocmask(2), it can  use  sigreturn(2)
              to  block  all  signals apart from SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.  This means that alarm(2) (for example) is
              not sufficient for restricting the process's execution time.  Instead, to reliably  terminate  the
              process,  SIGKILL  must  be used.  This can be done by using timer_create(2) with SIGEV_SIGNAL and
              sigev_signo set to SIGKILL, or by using setrlimit(2) to set the hard limit for RLIMIT_CPU.

              This operation is available only if the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SECCOMP enabled.

              The value of flags must be 0, and args must be NULL.

              This operation is functionally identical to the call:

                  prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT);

       SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER
              The system calls allowed are defined by a pointer to a Berkeley Packet  Filter  (BPF)  passed  via
              args.   This  argument is a pointer to a struct sock_fprog; it can be designed to filter arbitrary
              system calls and system call arguments.  If the filter  is  invalid,  seccomp()  fails,  returning
              EINVAL in errno.

              If  fork(2)  or  clone(2) is allowed by the filter, any child processes will be constrained to the
              same system call filters as the parent.  If execve(2) is allowed, the  existing  filters  will  be
              preserved across a call to execve(2).

              In  order  to  use  the SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER operation, either the calling thread must have the
              CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in its user namespace, or the thread must already have  the  no_new_privs
              bit  set.  If that bit was not already set by an ancestor of this thread, the thread must make the
              following call:

                  prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1);

              Otherwise, the  SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER  operation  fails  and  returns  EACCES  in  errno.   This
              requirement ensures that an unprivileged process cannot apply a malicious filter and then invoke a
              set-user-ID or other privileged  program  using  execve(2),  thus  potentially  compromising  that
              program.   (Such  a  malicious filter might, for example, cause an attempt to use setuid(2) to set
              the caller's user IDs to nonzero values to instead return 0 without  actually  making  the  system
              call.   Thus,  the  program  might be tricked into retaining superuser privileges in circumstances
              where it is possible to influence it to do dangerous things  because  it  did  not  actually  drop
              privileges.)

              If  prctl(2)  or  seccomp() is allowed by the attached filter, further filters may be added.  This
              will increase evaluation time, but allows for further  reduction  of  the  attack  surface  during
              execution of a thread.

              The  SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER  operation  is  available  only  if  the  kernel  is  configured with
              CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER enabled.

              When flags is 0, this operation is functionally identical to the call:

                  prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER, args);

              The recognized flags are:

              SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC
                     When adding a new filter, synchronize all other threads of the calling process to the  same
                     seccomp  filter tree.  A "filter tree" is the ordered list of filters attached to a thread.
                     (Attaching identical filters in separate seccomp() calls results in different filters  from
                     this perspective.)

                     If  any thread cannot synchronize to the same filter tree, the call will not attach the new
                     seccomp filter, and will fail, returning the first thread ID found that cannot synchronize.
                     Synchronization  will  fail if another thread in the same process is in SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT
                     or if it has attached new seccomp filters to itself, diverging from  the  calling  thread's
                     filter tree.

              SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG (since Linux 4.14)
                     All  filter return actions except SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW should be logged.  An administrator may
                     override this filter flag  by  preventing  specific  actions  from  being  logged  via  the
                     /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_logged file.

              SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_SPEC_ALLOW (since Linux 4.17)
                     Disable Speculative Store Bypass mitigation.

       SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL (since Linux 4.14)
              Test  to  see  if an action is supported by the kernel.  This operation is helpful to confirm that
              the kernel knows of a more recently added filter return action since the kernel treats all unknown
              actions as SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS.

              The  value  of  flags  must  be  0, and args must be a pointer to an unsigned 32-bit filter return
              action.

   Filters
       When adding filters via SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, args points to a filter program:

           struct sock_fprog {
               unsigned short      len;    /* Number of BPF instructions */
               struct sock_filter *filter; /* Pointer to array of
                                              BPF instructions */
           };

       Each program must contain one or more BPF instructions:

           struct sock_filter {            /* Filter block */
               __u16 code;                 /* Actual filter code */
               __u8  jt;                   /* Jump true */
               __u8  jf;                   /* Jump false */
               __u32 k;                    /* Generic multiuse field */
           };

       When executing the instructions, the BPF program operates on the system call information  made  available
       (i.e., use the BPF_ABS addressing mode) as a (read-only) buffer of the following form:

           struct seccomp_data {
               int   nr;                   /* System call number */
               __u32 arch;                 /* AUDIT_ARCH_* value
                                              (see <linux/audit.h>) */
               __u64 instruction_pointer;  /* CPU instruction pointer */
               __u64 args[6];              /* Up to 6 system call arguments */
           };

       Because  numbering  of  system  calls  varies between architectures and some architectures (e.g., x86-64)
       allow user-space code to use the calling conventions of multiple architectures (and the convention  being
       used  may  vary  over  the  life  of  a  process  that uses execve(2) to execute binaries that employ the
       different conventions), it is usually necessary to verify the value of the arch field.

       It is strongly recommended to use an allow-list approach whenever possible because such  an  approach  is
       more robust and simple.  A deny-list will have to be updated whenever a potentially dangerous system call
       is added (or a dangerous flag or option if those are deny-listed), and it is often possible to alter  the
       representation  of a value without altering its meaning, leading to a deny-list bypass.  See also Caveats
       below.

       The arch field is not unique for all calling conventions.  The x86-64  ABI  and  the  x32  ABI  both  use
       AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64  as  arch, and they run on the same processors.  Instead, the mask __X32_SYSCALL_BIT is
       used on the system call number to tell the two ABIs apart.

       This means that a policy must either deny all  syscalls  with  __X32_SYSCALL_BIT  or  it  must  recognize
       syscalls  with  and  without __X32_SYSCALL_BIT set.  A list of system calls to be denied based on nr that
       does not also contain nr values with __X32_SYSCALL_BIT set can be bypassed by a  malicious  program  that
       sets __X32_SYSCALL_BIT.

       Additionally,  kernels  prior  to Linux 5.4 incorrectly permitted nr in the ranges 512-547 as well as the
       corresponding non-x32 syscalls ORed with __X32_SYSCALL_BIT.  For example, nr == 521  and  nr  ==  (101  |
       __X32_SYSCALL_BIT)  would  result  in  invocations  of  ptrace(2) with potentially confused x32-vs-x86_64
       semantics in the kernel.  Policies intended to work on kernels before Linux 5.4  must  ensure  that  they
       deny  or  otherwise  correctly handle these system calls.  On Linux 5.4 and newer, such system calls will
       fail with the error ENOSYS, without doing anything.

       The instruction_pointer field provides the address of the machine-language instruction that performed the
       system  call.   This  might  be  useful in conjunction with the use of /proc/[pid]/maps to perform checks
       based on which region (mapping) of the program made the system call.  (Probably, it is wise to lock  down
       the mmap(2) and mprotect(2) system calls to prevent the program from subverting such checks.)

       When  checking  values  from  args, keep in mind that arguments are often silently truncated before being
       processed, but after the seccomp check.  For example, this happens if the i386 ABI is used on  an  x86-64
       kernel: although the kernel will normally not look beyond the 32 lowest bits of the arguments, the values
       of the full 64-bit registers will be present in the seccomp data.  A less surprising example is  that  if
       the  x86-64 ABI is used to perform a system call that takes an argument of type int, the more-significant
       half of the argument register is ignored by the system call, but visible in the seccomp data.

       A seccomp filter returns  a  32-bit  value  consisting  of  two  parts:  the  most  significant  16  bits
       (corresponding  to  the mask defined by the constant SECCOMP_RET_ACTION_FULL) contain one of the "action"
       values listed below; the least significant 16-bits (defined by the constant SECCOMP_RET_DATA) are  "data"
       to be associated with this return value.

       If  multiple filters exist, they are all executed, in reverse order of their addition to the filter tree—
       that is, the most recently installed filter is executed first.  (Note that all  filters  will  be  called
       even  if  one  of the earlier filters returns SECCOMP_RET_KILL.  This is done to simplify the kernel code
       and to provide a tiny speed-up in the execution of sets of filters by avoiding a check for this  uncommon
       case.)   The  return  value  for  the evaluation of a given system call is the first-seen action value of
       highest precedence (along with its accompanying data) returned by execution of all of the filters.

       In decreasing order of precedence, the action values that may be returned by a seccomp filter are:

       SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS (since Linux 4.14)
              This value results in immediate termination of the process, with a core dump.  The system call  is
              not executed.  By contrast with SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD below, all threads in the thread group are
              terminated.  (For a discussion of thread groups, see the description of the CLONE_THREAD  flag  in
              clone(2).)

              The  process  terminates  as  though killed by a SIGSYS signal.  Even if a signal handler has been
              registered for SIGSYS, the handler will be ignored in this case and the process always terminates.
              To  a  parent  process that is waiting on this process (using waitpid(2) or similar), the returned
              wstatus will indicate that its child was terminated as though by a SIGSYS signal.

       SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD (or SECCOMP_RET_KILL)
              This value results in immediate termination of the thread that made the system call.   The  system
              call is not executed.  Other threads in the same thread group will continue to execute.

              The thread terminates as though killed by a SIGSYS signal.  See SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS above.

              Before  Linux  4.11,  any process terminated in this way would not trigger a coredump (even though
              SIGSYS is documented in signal(7) as having a default action of termination  with  a  core  dump).
              Since Linux 4.11, a single-threaded process will dump core if terminated in this way.

              With  the addition of SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS in Linux 4.14, SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD was added as
              a synonym for SECCOMP_RET_KILL, in order to more clearly distinguish the two actions.

              Note: the use of SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD to kill a single thread in  a  multithreaded  process  is
              likely to leave the process in a permanently inconsistent and possibly corrupt state.

       SECCOMP_RET_TRAP
              This value results in the kernel sending a thread-directed SIGSYS signal to the triggering thread.
              (The system call is not executed.)  Various fields will be set in  the  siginfo_t  structure  (see
              sigaction(2)) associated with signal:

              *  si_signo will contain SIGSYS.

              *  si_call_addr will show the address of the system call instruction.

              *  si_syscall and si_arch will indicate which system call was attempted.

              *  si_code will contain SYS_SECCOMP.

              *  si_errno will contain the SECCOMP_RET_DATA portion of the filter return value.

              The program counter will be as though the system call happened (i.e., the program counter will not
              point  to  the  system  call  instruction).   The  return   value   register   will   contain   an
              architecture-dependent  value;  if  resuming  execution,  set  it to something appropriate for the
              system call.  (The architecture dependency is because replacing it  with  ENOSYS  could  overwrite
              some useful information.)

       SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO
              This  value  results  in the SECCOMP_RET_DATA portion of the filter's return value being passed to
              user space as the errno value without executing the system call.

       SECCOMP_RET_TRACE
              When returned, this value will cause the kernel to attempt  to  notify  a  ptrace(2)-based  tracer
              prior  to  executing  the  system  call.   If  there  is no tracer present, the system call is not
              executed and returns a failure status with errno set to ENOSYS.

              A tracer will be notified if it requests  PTRACE_O_TRACESECCOMP  using  ptrace(PTRACE_SETOPTIONS).
              The  tracer  will  be  notified  of a PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP and the SECCOMP_RET_DATA portion of the
              filter's return value will be available to the tracer via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG.

              The tracer can skip the system call by changing the system call number to -1.  Alternatively,  the
              tracer  can  change  the  system call requested by changing the system call to a valid system call
              number.  If the tracer asks to skip the system call, then the system call will  appear  to  return
              the value that the tracer puts in the return value register.

              Before  kernel  4.8,  the seccomp check will not be run again after the tracer is notified.  (This
              means that, on older kernels, seccomp-based sandboxes must not  allow  use  of  ptrace(2)—even  of
              other sandboxed processes—without extreme care; ptracers can use this mechanism to escape from the
              seccomp sandbox.)

              Note that a tracer process will not be notified if another filter returns an action value  with  a
              precedence greater than SECCOMP_RET_TRACE.

       SECCOMP_RET_LOG (since Linux 4.14)
              This value results in the system call being executed after the filter return action is logged.  An
              administrator     may     override     the     logging     of     this     action     via      the
              /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_logged file.

       SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW
              This value results in the system call being executed.

       If  an action value other than one of the above is specified, then the filter action is treated as either
       SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS (since Linux 4.14) or SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD (in Linux 4.13 and earlier).

   /proc interfaces
       The  files  in  the  directory  /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp  provide  additional  seccomp  information   and
       configuration:

       actions_avail (since Linux 4.14)
              A  read-only  ordered  list  of  seccomp filter return actions in string form.  The ordering, from
              left-to-right, is in decreasing order of precedence.  The  list  represents  the  set  of  seccomp
              filter return actions supported by the kernel.

       actions_logged (since Linux 4.14)
              A  read-write ordered list of seccomp filter return actions that are allowed to be logged.  Writes
              to the file do not need to be in ordered form but reads from the file will be ordered in the  same
              way as the actions_avail file.

              It  is  important  to note that the value of actions_logged does not prevent certain filter return
              actions from being logged when the audit subsystem is configured to audit a task.  If  the  action
              is  not  found  in  the actions_logged file, the final decision on whether to audit the action for
              that task is ultimately left up to the audit subsystem to decide for  all  filter  return  actions
              other than SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW.

              The  "allow"  string  is  not  accepted  in  the  actions_logged file as it is not possible to log
              SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW actions.  Attempting to write "allow" to the  file  will  fail  with  the  error
              EINVAL.

   Audit logging of seccomp actions
       Since  Linux 4.14, the kernel provides the facility to log the actions returned by seccomp filters in the
       audit log.  The kernel makes the decision to log an action based on the action type,  whether or not  the
       action  is  present  in  the  actions_logged  file, and whether kernel auditing is enabled (e.g., via the
       kernel boot option audit=1).  The rules are as follows:

       *  If the action is SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW, the action is not logged.

       *  Otherwise, if the action is  either  SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS  or  SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD,  and  that
          action appears in the actions_logged file, the action is logged.

       *  Otherwise,  if  the  filter  has  requested  logging (the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG flag) and the action
          appears in the actions_logged file, the action is logged.

       *  Otherwise, if kernel auditing is enabled and the process is being audited (autrace(8)), the action  is
          logged.

       *  Otherwise, the action is not logged.

RETURN VALUE

       On  success,  seccomp()  returns 0.  On error, if SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC was used, the return value is
       the ID of the thread that caused the synchronization failure.  (This ID is a kernel thread ID of the type
       returned  by  clone(2) and gettid(2).)  On other errors, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the
       cause of the error.

ERRORS

       seccomp() can fail for the following reasons:

       EACCES The caller did not have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability  in  its  user  namespace,  or  had  not  set
              no_new_privs before using SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER.

       EFAULT args was not a valid address.

       EINVAL operation is unknown or is not supported by this kernel version or configuration.

       EINVAL The specified flags are invalid for the given operation.

       EINVAL operation  included  BPF_ABS,  but  the  specified  offset was not aligned to a 32-bit boundary or
              exceeded sizeof(struct seccomp_data).

       EINVAL A secure computing mode has already been set, and operation differs from the existing setting.

       EINVAL operation specified SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, but the filter program pointed to  by  args  was  not
              valid or the length of the filter program was zero or exceeded BPF_MAXINSNS (4096) instructions.

       ENOMEM Out of memory.

       ENOMEM The   total   length  of  all  filter  programs  attached  to  the  calling  thread  would  exceed
              MAX_INSNS_PER_PATH (32768) instructions.  Note that for the purposes of  calculating  this  limit,
              each already existing filter program incurs an overhead penalty of 4 instructions.

       EOPNOTSUPP
              operation  specified  SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL,  but the kernel does not support the filter return
              action specified by args.

       ESRCH  Another thread caused a failure during thread sync, but its ID could not be determined.

VERSIONS

       The seccomp() system call first appeared in Linux 3.17.

CONFORMING TO

       The seccomp() system call is a nonstandard Linux extension.

NOTES

       Rather than hand-coding seccomp filters as shown in the example below,  you  may  prefer  to  employ  the
       libseccomp library, which provides a front-end for generating seccomp filters.

       The  Seccomp  field  of  the  /proc/[pid]/status  file provides a method of viewing the seccomp mode of a
       process; see proc(5).

       seccomp() provides a superset of the functionality provided  by  the  prctl(2)  PR_SET_SECCOMP  operation
       (which does not support flags).

       Since  Linux  4.4,  the  ptrace(2)  PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER  operation  can be used to dump a process's
       seccomp filters.

   Architecture support for seccomp BPF
       Architecture support for seccomp BPF filtering is available on the following architectures:

       *  x86-64, i386, x32 (since Linux 3.5)
       *  ARM (since Linux 3.8)
       *  s390 (since Linux 3.8)
       *  MIPS (since Linux 3.16)
       *  ARM-64 (since Linux 3.19)
       *  PowerPC (since Linux 4.3)
       *  Tile (since Linux 4.3)
       *  PA-RISC (since Linux 4.6)

   Caveats
       There are various subtleties to consider when applying  seccomp  filters  to  a  program,  including  the
       following:

       *  Some  traditional  system  calls have user-space implementations in the vdso(7) on many architectures.
          Notable examples include clock_gettime(2),  gettimeofday(2),  and  time(2).   On  such  architectures,
          seccomp  filtering  for  these  system calls will have no effect.  (However, there are cases where the
          vdso(7) implementations may fall back to invoking the true system call, in which case seccomp  filters
          would see the system call.)

       *  Seccomp  filtering  is  based on system call numbers.  However, applications typically do not directly
          invoke system calls, but instead call wrapper functions in the C library  which  in  turn  invoke  the
          system calls.  Consequently, one must be aware of the following:

          •  The  glibc  wrappers  for  some  traditional  system  calls  may  actually employ system calls with
             different names in the kernel.  For example, the exit(2)  wrapper  function  actually  employs  the
             exit_group(2) system call, and the fork(2) wrapper function actually calls clone(2).

          •  The  behavior  of wrapper functions may vary across architectures, according to the range of system
             calls provided on those architectures.  In other  words,  the  same  wrapper  function  may  invoke
             different system calls on different architectures.

          •  Finally, the behavior of wrapper functions can change across glibc versions.  For example, in older
             versions, the glibc wrapper function for open(2) invoked the system call  of  the  same  name,  but
             starting in glibc 2.26, the implementation switched to calling openat(2) on all architectures.

       The  consequence  of  the above points is that it may be necessary to filter for a system call other than
       might be expected.  Various manual pages in Section 2  provide  helpful  details  about  the  differences
       between  wrapper  functions  and  the  underlying  system  calls in subsections entitled C library/kernel
       differences.

       Furthermore, note that the application of seccomp filters even risks causing bugs in an application, when
       the  filters  cause  unexpected  failures  for  legitimate  operations that the application might need to
       perform.  Such bugs may not easily be discovered when testing the seccomp filters if the  bugs  occur  in
       rarely used application code paths.

   Seccomp-specific BPF details
       Note the following BPF details specific to seccomp filters:

       *  The  BPF_H  and  BPF_B  size  modifiers are not supported: all operations must load and store (4-byte)
          words (BPF_W).

       *  To access the contents of the seccomp_data buffer, use the BPF_ABS addressing mode modifier.

       *  The BPF_LEN addressing mode modifier yields an immediate mode operand whose value is the size  of  the
          seccomp_data buffer.

EXAMPLES

       The  program below accepts four or more arguments.  The first three arguments are a system call number, a
       numeric architecture identifier, and an error number.  The program uses these values to construct  a  BPF
       filter that is used at run time to perform the following checks:

       [1] If  the  program  is not running on the specified architecture, the BPF filter causes system calls to
           fail with the error ENOSYS.

       [2] If the program attempts to execute the system call with the specified number, the BPF  filter  causes
           the system call to fail, with errno being set to the specified error number.

       The  remaining command-line arguments specify the pathname and additional arguments of a program that the
       example program should attempt to execute using execv(3) (a library function that employs  the  execve(2)
       system call).  Some example runs of the program are shown below.

       First,  we  display  the architecture that we are running on (x86-64) and then construct a shell function
       that looks up system call numbers on this architecture:

           $ uname -m
           x86_64
           $ syscall_nr() {
               cat /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | \
               awk '$2 != "x32" && $3 == "'$1'" { print $1 }'
           }

       When the BPF filter rejects a system call (case [2] above), it causes the system call to  fail  with  the
       error number specified on the command line.  In the experiments shown here, we'll use error number 99:

           $ errno 99
           EADDRNOTAVAIL 99 Cannot assign requested address

       In  the  following  example,  we  attempt  to  run  the command whoami(1), but the BPF filter rejects the
       execve(2) system call, so that the command is not even executed:

           $ syscall_nr execve
           59
           $ ./a.out
           Usage: ./a.out <syscall_nr> <arch> <errno> <prog> [<args>]
           Hint for <arch>: AUDIT_ARCH_I386: 0x40000003
                            AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64: 0xC000003E
           $ ./a.out 59 0xC000003E 99 /bin/whoami
           execv: Cannot assign requested address

       In the next example, the  BPF  filter  rejects  the  write(2)  system  call,  so  that,  although  it  is
       successfully started, the whoami(1) command is not able to write output:

           $ syscall_nr write
           1
           $ ./a.out 1 0xC000003E 99 /bin/whoami

       In  the final example, the BPF filter rejects a system call that is not used by the whoami(1) command, so
       it is able to successfully execute and produce output:

           $ syscall_nr preadv
           295
           $ ./a.out 295 0xC000003E 99 /bin/whoami
           cecilia

   Program source
       #include <errno.h>
       #include <stddef.h>
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdlib.h>
       #include <unistd.h>
       #include <linux/audit.h>
       #include <linux/filter.h>
       #include <linux/seccomp.h>
       #include <sys/prctl.h>

       #define X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000
       #define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]))

       static int
       install_filter(int syscall_nr, int t_arch, int f_errno)
       {
           unsigned int upper_nr_limit = 0xffffffff;

           /* Assume that AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64 means the normal x86-64 ABI
              (in the x32 ABI, all system calls have bit 30 set in the
              'nr' field, meaning the numbers are >= X32_SYSCALL_BIT) */
           if (t_arch == AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64)
               upper_nr_limit = X32_SYSCALL_BIT - 1;

           struct sock_filter filter[] = {
               /* [0] Load architecture from 'seccomp_data' buffer into
                      accumulator */
               BPF_STMT(BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_ABS,
                        (offsetof(struct seccomp_data, arch))),

               /* [1] Jump forward 5 instructions if architecture does not
                      match 't_arch' */
               BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, t_arch, 0, 5),

               /* [2] Load system call number from 'seccomp_data' buffer into
                      accumulator */
               BPF_STMT(BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_ABS,
                        (offsetof(struct seccomp_data, nr))),

               /* [3] Check ABI - only needed for x86-64 in deny-list use
                      cases.  Use BPF_JGT instead of checking against the bit
                      mask to avoid having to reload the syscall number. */
               BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JGT | BPF_K, upper_nr_limit, 3, 0),

               /* [4] Jump forward 1 instruction if system call number
                      does not match 'syscall_nr' */
               BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, syscall_nr, 0, 1),

               /* [5] Matching architecture and system call: don't execute
                  the system call, and return 'f_errno' in 'errno' */
               BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K,
                        SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO | (f_errno & SECCOMP_RET_DATA)),

               /* [6] Destination of system call number mismatch: allow other
                      system calls */
               BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW),

               /* [7] Destination of architecture mismatch: kill process */
               BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS),
           };

           struct sock_fprog prog = {
               .len = ARRAY_SIZE(filter),
               .filter = filter,
           };

           if (seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &prog)) {
               perror("seccomp");
               return 1;
           }

           return 0;
       }

       int
       main(int argc, char **argv)
       {
           if (argc < 5) {
               fprintf(stderr, "Usage: "
                       "%s <syscall_nr> <arch> <errno> <prog> [<args>]\n"
                       "Hint for <arch>: AUDIT_ARCH_I386: 0x%X\n"
                       "                 AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64: 0x%X\n"
                       "\n", argv[0], AUDIT_ARCH_I386, AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64);
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }

           if (prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0)) {
               perror("prctl");
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
           }

           if (install_filter(strtol(argv[1], NULL, 0),
                              strtol(argv[2], NULL, 0),
                              strtol(argv[3], NULL, 0)))
               exit(EXIT_FAILURE);

           execv(argv[4], &argv[4]);
           perror("execv");
           exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
       }

SEE ALSO

       bpfc(1), strace(1), bpf(2), prctl(2), ptrace(2), sigaction(2), proc(5), signal(7), socket(7)

       Various pages  from  the  libseccomp  library,  including:  scmp_sys_resolver(1),  seccomp_export_bpf(3),
       seccomp_init(3), seccomp_load(3), and seccomp_rule_add(3).

       The          kernel          source         files         Documentation/networking/filter.txt         and
       Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst (or  Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt  before  Linux
       4.13).

       McCanne,  S.  and  Jacobson,  V.  (1992)  The BSD Packet Filter: A New Architecture for User-level Packet
       Capture,       Proceedings        of        the        USENIX        Winter        1993        Conference
       ⟨http://www.tcpdump.org/papers/bpf-usenix93.pdf

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