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Can't the kernel executor just check the seccomp rules when it pulls tasks off the iou queue?

There has been quite a bit of LWN coverage of io_uring security aspects, most recently https://lwn.net/Articles/902466/

The basic gist seems to be that it's just not currently the upstream developer's focus

Fundamentally, yeah sure, it can do whatever it wants. It just doesn't right now.