From: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 10:28:55 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180929002855.bcx5u2kabtqjtcnt@mikami> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180927151119.9989-2-tycho@tycho.ws>
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On 2018-09-27, Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> wrote:
> This patch introduces a means for syscalls matched in seccomp to notify
> some other task that a particular filter has been triggered.
>
> The motivation for this is primarily for use with containers. For example,
> if a container does an init_module(), we obviously don't want to load this
> untrusted code, which may be compiled for the wrong version of the kernel
> anyway. Instead, we could parse the module image, figure out which module
> the container is trying to load and load it on the host.
>
> As another example, containers cannot mknod(), since this checks
> capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN). However, harmless devices like /dev/null or
> /dev/zero should be ok for containers to mknod, but we'd like to avoid hard
> coding some whitelist in the kernel. Another example is mount(), which has
> many security restrictions for good reason, but configuration or runtime
> knowledge could potentially be used to relax these restrictions.
Minor thing, but this is no longer _entirely_ true (now it checks
ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns)). I think the kernel module auto-loading is a
much more interesting example, but since this is just a commit message
feel free to ignore my pedantry. :P
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
> CC: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
> CC: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
> CC: Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Would you mind adding me to the Cc: list for the next round of patches?
It's looking pretty neat!
Thanks!
--
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-29 6:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 15:11 [PATCH v7 0/6] seccomp trap to userspace Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] seccomp: add a return code to " Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 21:31 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-27 22:48 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 23:10 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-28 14:39 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-08 14:58 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 14:28 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-09 16:24 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 16:29 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-17 20:29 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-17 22:21 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-17 22:33 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-21 16:04 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-22 9:42 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-27 21:51 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 22:45 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-27 23:08 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 23:04 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 23:37 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-29 0:28 ` Aleksa Sarai [this message]
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] seccomp: make get_nth_filter available outside of CHECKPOINT_RESTORE Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 16:51 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 21:42 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-08 13:55 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] seccomp: add a way to get a listener fd from ptrace Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 16:20 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 16:34 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 17:35 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 18:09 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 21:53 ` Kees Cook
2018-10-08 15:16 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-08 15:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-08 16:21 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-08 16:42 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-08 18:18 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 12:39 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-09 13:28 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 13:36 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-09 13:49 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 13:50 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-09 14:09 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 15:26 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-09 16:20 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-09 16:26 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-10 12:54 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 13:09 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 13:10 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-10 13:18 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 15:31 ` Paul Moore
2018-10-10 15:33 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-10 15:39 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 16:54 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-10 17:15 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 17:26 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-10 18:28 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-11 7:24 ` Paul Moore
2018-10-11 13:39 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-11 23:10 ` Paul Moore
2018-10-12 1:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-12 20:02 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-12 20:06 ` Jann Horn
2018-10-12 20:11 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-08 18:00 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-10-08 18:41 ` Christian Brauner
2018-10-10 17:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-10-10 18:26 ` Christian Brauner
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] files: add a replace_fd_files() function Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 16:49 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 18:04 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 21:59 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-28 2:20 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-28 2:46 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-28 5:23 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] seccomp: add a way to pass FDs via a notification fd Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 16:39 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 22:13 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 19:28 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 22:14 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 22:17 ` Jann Horn
2018-09-27 22:49 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 22:09 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-27 22:15 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 15:11 ` [PATCH v7 6/6] samples: add an example of seccomp user trap Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27 22:11 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-28 21:57 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] seccomp trap to userspace Michael Kerrisk (man-opages)
2018-09-28 22:03 ` Tycho Andersen
2018-09-28 22:16 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-09-28 22:34 ` Kees Cook
2018-09-28 22:46 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-09-28 22:48 ` Jann Horn
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