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From: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
To: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org, systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Dave Martin <dave.martin@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:18:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201022071812.GA324655@gardel-login> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8584c14f-5c28-9d70-c054-7c78127d84ea@arm.com>

On Mi, 21.10.20 22:44, Jeremy Linton (jeremy.linton@arm.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There is a problem with glibc+systemd on BTI enabled systems. Systemd
> has a service flag "MemoryDenyWriteExecute" which uses seccomp to deny
> PROT_EXEC changes. Glibc enables BTI only on segments which are marked as
> being BTI compatible by calling mprotect PROT_EXEC|PROT_BTI. That call is
> caught by the seccomp filter, resulting in service failures.
>
> So, at the moment one has to pick either denying PROT_EXEC changes, or BTI.
> This is obviously not desirable.
>
> Various changes have been suggested, replacing the mprotect with mmap calls
> having PROT_BTI set on the original mapping, re-mmapping the segments,
> implying PROT_EXEC on mprotect PROT_BTI calls when VM_EXEC is already set,
> and various modification to seccomp to allow particular mprotect cases to
> bypass the filters. In each case there seems to be an undesirable attribute
> to the solution.
>
> So, whats the best solution?

Did you see Topi's comments on the systemd issue?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/17368#issuecomment-710485532

I think I agree with this: it's a bit weird to alter the bits after
the fact. Can't glibc set up everything right from the begining? That
would keep both concepts working.

Lennart

--
Lennart Poettering, Berlin

       reply	other threads:[~2020-10-22  7:26 UTC|newest]

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 ` Lennart Poettering [this message]
2020-10-22  7:54   ` [systemd-devel] BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures 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
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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