Re: PROBLEM: SECCOMP documentation outdated in some arch/*/Kconfig

[Randy Dunlap]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:41:58 +0100 Helmut Grohne wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I didn't find out whom to report this bug to and thus report to
> linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as described in
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html.

Andrea cc-ed.

Helmut, would you care to make a patch that you think should be
applied to the current kernel source tree?


> I'm posting from outside, so please CC me.
> 
> [1] The description about seccomp is outdated in some arch/*/Kconfig
>     files.
> 
> [2] According to the source (2.6.23.14) seccomp is to be activated using
>     pcrtl. It was previously activated using a file /proc/<pid>/seccomp.
>     The Kconfig documentation (also displayed in menuconfig) does not
>     reflect this change and is thus wrong.
> 
> [3] seccomp documentation Kconfig
> 
> [4] 2.6.23.14, seems to also apply to git head:
>     http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/x86/Kconfig;h=80b7ba4056dbbb566841c1e1cbef9475730fe199;hb=HEAD
> 
> [5] no oops
> 
> [6] less arch/x86_64/Kconfig
>     /SECCOMP
> 
> [7] Ask me again if you really think you need information about the
>     environment for a documentation bug.

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~Randy
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