Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL for v2.3 01/01] seccomp: update libseccomp version and remove arch restriction

[Juan Quintela]

Eduardo Otubo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 02=44=14PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 26 March 2015 at 14:37, Eduardo Otubo <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I completely understand your concern. Perhaps a ping on libseccomp
>> > Fedora package maintainer would be a better way to tackle this issue
>> > instead of reverting this commit. Libseccomp 2.2.0 is released since Feb
>> > 12th and I actually gave it a little time frame for other distros to
>> > update their packages so we don't run into issues like this.
>> 
>> Well, we shouldn't really be mandating latest-and-greatest versions
>> of our upstream dependencies unless the maintainer of those dependencies
>> feels the earlier versions are so badly broken that it would be better
>> to refuse to use them at all.
>> 
>> > It's important to remember that this patch is also the proper fix for
>> > this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1363641
>> 
>> If that only applies to certain architectures we can make the
>> dependency version vary depending on which arch we're building
>> for, I suppose.
>> 
>
> This sounds more like a reasonable approach that could solve the above
> mentioned problem and also making virt-test to be able to keep using
> this feature as well -- which is also very important in order to get
> more important system calls for the whitelist. I'll roll out a new patch
> for that.
>
> Thanks for the idea, Paul.
> Sorry for the trouble on your side, Juan.

You are welcome.  I was just trying to fix the prob0lem before somebody
else hit it O:-)

Later, Juan.