From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
To: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>,
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
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Subject: Re: BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:12:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHCu1JskXZTvSsspQD-wk4L59FxesvVJdjMSX=jiHg-R2zCuQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3cb894d4-049f-aa25-4450-d1df36a1b92e@gmail.com>
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 12:34, Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 23.10.2020 20.52, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 23:24, Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> SARA looks interesting. What is missing is a prctl() to enable all W^X
> >> protections irrevocably for the current process, then systemd could
> >> enable it for services with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes.
> >
> > SARA actually has a procattr[0] interface to do just that.
> > There is also a library[1] to help using it.
>
> That means that /proc has to be available and writable at that point, so
> setting up procattrs has to be done before mount namespaces are set up.
> In general, it would be nice for sandboxing facilities in kernel if
> there would be a way to start enforcing restrictions only at next
> execve(), like setexeccon() for SELinux and aa_change_onexec() for
> AppArmor. Otherwise the exact order of setting up various sandboxing
> options can be very tricky to arrange correctly, since each option may
> have a subtle effect to the sandboxing features enabled later. In case
> of SARA, the operations done between shuffling the mount namespace and
> before execve() shouldn't be affected so it isn't important. Even if it
> did (a new sandboxing feature in the future would need trampolines or
> JIT code generation), maybe the procattr file could be opened early but
> it could be written closer to execve().
A new "apply on exec" procattr file seems reasonable and relatively easy to add.
As Kees pointed out, the main obstacle here is the fact that SARA is
not upstream :(
Salvatore
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <8584c14f-5c28-9d70-c054-7c78127d84ea@arm.com>
2020-10-22 7:18 ` [systemd-devel] BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures Lennart Poettering
2020-10-22 7:54 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-22 8:17 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-22 8:25 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-22 8:29 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-22 8:38 ` Lennart Poettering
2020-10-22 9:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-22 10:12 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-22 10:27 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 6:13 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-23 9:04 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-22 10:03 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-22 8:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-22 8:31 ` Lennart Poettering
[not found] ` <20201022075447.GO3819@arm.com>
2020-10-22 10:39 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-22 20:02 ` Kees Cook
2020-10-22 22:24 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-23 17:52 ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2020-10-24 11:34 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-24 14:12 ` Salvatore Mesoraca [this message]
2020-10-25 13:42 ` Jordan Glover
2020-10-23 9:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-24 11:01 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-26 14:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-10-26 15:56 ` Dave Martin
2020-10-26 16:51 ` Mark Brown
2020-10-26 16:31 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-26 16:24 ` Dave Martin
2020-10-26 16:39 ` Topi Miettinen
2020-10-26 16:45 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-27 14:22 ` Dave Martin
2020-10-27 14:41 ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-26 16:57 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2020-10-26 17:52 ` Dave Martin
2020-10-26 22:39 ` Jeremy Linton
2020-10-27 14:15 ` Dave Martin
2020-10-29 11:02 ` Catalin Marinas
2020-11-04 12:18 ` Dave Martin
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