From: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
To: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>,
Robert Sesek <rsesek@google.com>
Subject: Re: For review: seccomp_user_notif(2) manual page
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:43:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG48ez1drOxgcpuKHiJc+khwmLvqoXfK4yBt9_KHPGQipDf6NQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMp4zn_Qt2MYuoLojn5ikRkr-J5yGimirjevoAvorK5wfzrBHg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 7:32 AM Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 3:28 AM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:14 AM Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> > <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 10/26/20 4:54 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > > I'm a bit on the fence now on whether non-blocking mode should use
> > > > ENOTCONN or not... I guess if we returned ENOENT even when there are
> > > > no more listeners, you'd have to disambiguate through the poll()
> > > > revents, which would be kinda ugly?
> > >
> > > I must confess, I'm not quite clear on which two cases you
> > > are trying to distinguish. Can you elaborate?
> >
> > Let's say someone writes a program whose responsibilities are just to
> > handle seccomp events and to listen on some other fd for commands. And
> > this is implemented with an event loop. Then once all the target
> > processes are gone (including zombie reaping), we'll start getting
> > EPOLLERR.
> >
> > If NOTIF_RECV starts returning -ENOTCONN at this point, the event loop
> > can just call into the seccomp logic without any arguments; it can
> > just call NOTIF_RECV one more time, see the -ENOTCONN, and terminate.
> > The downside is that there's one more error code userspace has to
> > special-case.
> > This would be more consistent with what we'd be doing in the blocking case.
> >
> > If NOTIF_RECV keeps returning -ENOENT, the event loop has to also tell
> > the seccomp logic what the revents are.
> >
> > I guess it probably doesn't really matter much.
>
> So, in practice, if you're emulating a blocking syscall (such as open,
> perf_event_open, or any of a number of other syscalls), you probably
> have to do it on a separate thread in the supervisor because you want
> to continue to be able to receive new notifications if any other process
> generates a seccomp notification event that you need to handle.
>
> In addition to that, some of these syscalls are preemptible, so you need
> to poll SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID to make sure that the program
> under supervision hasn't left the syscall.
>
> If we're to implement a mechanism that makes the seccomp ioctl receive
> non-blocking, it would be valuable to address this problem as well (getting
> a notification when the supervisor is processing a syscall and needs to
> preempt it). In the best case, this can be a minor inconvenience, and
> in the worst case this can result in weird errors where you're keeping
> resources open that the container expects to be closed.
Does "a notification" mean signals? Or would you want to have a second
thread in userspace that poll()s for cancellation events on the
seccomp fd and then somehow takes care of interrupting the first
thread, or something like that?
Either way, I think your proposal goes beyond the scope of patching
the existing weirdness, and should be a separate patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-29 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 11:07 For review: seccomp_user_notif(2) manual page Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-30 15:03 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-09-30 15:11 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-09-30 20:34 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-30 23:03 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-09-30 23:11 ` Jann Horn
2020-09-30 23:24 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-10-01 1:52 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 2:14 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-25 16:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-26 15:54 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-27 6:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-27 10:28 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-28 6:31 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-10-28 9:43 ` Jann Horn [this message]
2020-10-28 17:43 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-10-28 18:20 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 7:49 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-26 0:32 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-26 9:51 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-26 10:31 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-28 22:56 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-29 1:11 ` Jann Horn
[not found] ` <20201029021348.GB25673@cisco>
2020-10-29 4:26 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-28 22:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-29 1:25 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 7:45 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-14 4:40 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-30 15:53 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 12:54 ` Christian Brauner
2020-10-01 15:47 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 16:58 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-10-01 17:12 ` Christian Brauner
2020-10-14 5:41 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01 18:18 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-01 18:56 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-10-01 17:05 ` Christian Brauner
2020-10-15 11:24 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-15 20:32 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-16 18:29 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-17 0:25 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-24 12:52 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-26 9:32 ` Jann Horn
2020-10-26 9:47 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-30 23:39 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-15 11:24 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-26 0:19 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-26 9:39 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01 12:36 ` Christian Brauner
2020-10-15 11:23 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01 21:06 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-10-01 23:19 ` Tycho Andersen
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