[HN Gopher] Reliable system call interception
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Reliable system call interception
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 42 points
Date : 2025-01-05 15:58 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.mggross.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.mggross.com)
| IshKebab wrote:
| I've looked into using Seccomp for this before for sandboxing. It
| was kind of a mess. Very awkward to work with. Especially for
| syscalls where the information you want isn't directly in the
| parameters - e.g. for strings. You have to do some crazy stuff to
| make that work.
|
| Especially annoying because it only supports cBPF (Classic BPF)
| which is very limited compared to eBPF. Apparently they aren't
| ever going to add eBPF to more things since it is such a security
| risk.
|
| You may want to look into this if your use-case is not security
| sensitive: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/syscall-user-
| dispatch.ht...
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