security_task_prctl: why -ENOSYS

William Roberts bill.c.roberts at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 19:01:07 UTC 2026


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> How about security_task_prctl_allowed()?  (Mirroring security_uring_*)
>
> Renaming the existing hook security_task_prctl_handle() also wouldn't
> be too bad, but that's probably more churn than it's worth.
>

Yeah if something else is already done, I'll just copy their
convention. I went with suffix _check for now.

Another possible issue that I think other upstream communities may
have with adding an additional hook, is that there will be two hooks
in the prctl syscall path,
I am not sure if that's a show stopper?



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