[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 153235] New: [Linux] Seccomp filters: safely allocate all memory used by web process signal handler

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153235

            Bug ID: 153235
           Summary: [Linux] Seccomp filters: safely allocate all memory
                    used by web process signal handler
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: WebKit
           Version: Other
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: WebKit Misc.
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: mcatanzaro at igalia.com

We can't use malloc or new inside our giant SIGSYS signal handler because they are not async-signal-safe.

Thanks to Petr Pisar for reminding me of this at [1].

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/YV7GJ4W3T3TX7ZAXUO3MVBWV3AOGFRMF/

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