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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt')
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diff --git a/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt b/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt index 597c3c581375..1e469ef75778 100644 --- a/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt +++ b/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt @@ -95,12 +95,15 @@ SECCOMP_RET_KILL: SECCOMP_RET_TRAP: Results in the kernel sending a SIGSYS signal to the triggering - task without executing the system call. The kernel will - rollback the register state to just before the system call - entry such that a signal handler in the task will be able to - inspect the ucontext_t->uc_mcontext registers and emulate - system call success or failure upon return from the signal - handler. + task without executing the system call. siginfo->si_call_addr + will show the address of the system call instruction, and + siginfo->si_syscall and siginfo->si_arch will indicate which + syscall was attempted. The program counter will be as though + the syscall happened (i.e. it will not point to the syscall + instruction). The return value register will contain an arch- + dependent value -- if resuming execution, set it to something + sensible. (The architecture dependency is because replacing + it with -ENOSYS could overwrite some useful information.) The SECCOMP_RET_DATA portion of the return value will be passed as si_errno. @@ -123,6 +126,18 @@ SECCOMP_RET_TRACE: the BPF program return value will be available to the tracer via PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG. + The tracer can skip the system call by changing the syscall number + to -1. Alternatively, the tracer can change the system call + requested by changing the system call to a valid syscall number. If + the tracer asks to skip the system call, then the system call will + appear to return the value that the tracer puts in the return value + register. + + The seccomp check will not be run again after the tracer is + notified. (This means that seccomp-based sandboxes MUST NOT + allow use of ptrace, even of other sandboxed processes, without + extreme care; ptracers can use this mechanism to escape.) + SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW: Results in the system call being executed. @@ -161,3 +176,50 @@ architecture supports both ptrace_event and seccomp, it will be able to support seccomp filter with minor fixup: SIGSYS support and seccomp return value checking. Then it must just add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER to its arch-specific Kconfig. + + + +Caveats +------- + +The vDSO can cause some system calls to run entirely in userspace, +leading to surprises when you run programs on different machines that +fall back to real syscalls. To minimize these surprises on x86, make +sure you test with +/sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource set to +something like acpi_pm. + +On x86-64, vsyscall emulation is enabled by default. (vsyscalls are +legacy variants on vDSO calls.) Currently, emulated vsyscalls will honor seccomp, with a few oddities: + +- A return value of SECCOMP_RET_TRAP will set a si_call_addr pointing to + the vsyscall entry for the given call and not the address after the + 'syscall' instruction. Any code which wants to restart the call + should be aware that (a) a ret instruction has been emulated and (b) + trying to resume the syscall will again trigger the standard vsyscall + emulation security checks, making resuming the syscall mostly + pointless. + +- A return value of SECCOMP_RET_TRACE will signal the tracer as usual, + but the syscall may not be changed to another system call using the + orig_rax register. It may only be changed to -1 order to skip the + currently emulated call. Any other change MAY terminate the process. + The rip value seen by the tracer will be the syscall entry address; + this is different from normal behavior. The tracer MUST NOT modify + rip or rsp. (Do not rely on other changes terminating the process. + They might work. For example, on some kernels, choosing a syscall + that only exists in future kernels will be correctly emulated (by + returning -ENOSYS). + +To detect this quirky behavior, check for addr & ~0x0C00 == +0xFFFFFFFFFF600000. (For SECCOMP_RET_TRACE, use rip. For +SECCOMP_RET_TRAP, use siginfo->si_call_addr.) Do not check any other +condition: future kernels may improve vsyscall emulation and current +kernels in vsyscall=native mode will behave differently, but the +instructions at 0xF...F600{0,4,8,C}00 will not be system calls in these +cases. + +Note that modern systems are unlikely to use vsyscalls at all -- they +are a legacy feature and they are considerably slower than standard +syscalls. New code will use the vDSO, and vDSO-issued system calls +are indistinguishable from normal system calls. |