[PATCH] seccomp: drop now bogus dependency on PROC_FS

From: Alexey Dobriyan
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 02:59:52 EST


seccomp is prctl(2)-driven now.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
---

arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1191,7 +1191,6 @@ config IRQBALANCE
config SECCOMP
def_bool y
prompt "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
- depends on PROC_FS
help
This kernel feature is useful for number crunching applications
that may need to compute untrusted bytecode during their
@@ -1199,7 +1198,7 @@ config SECCOMP
the process as file descriptors supporting the read/write
syscalls, it's possible to isolate those applications in
their own address space using seccomp. Once seccomp is
- enabled via /proc/<pid>/seccomp, it cannot be disabled
+ enabled via prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP), it cannot be disabled
and the task is only allowed to execute a few safe syscalls
defined by each seccomp mode.

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