Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] seccomp: Add sysctl to display available actions

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Feb 07 2017 - 19:03:39 EST


On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:37 PM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch creates a read-only sysctl containing an ordered list of
> seccomp actions that the kernel supports. The ordering, from left to
> right, is the lowest action value (kill) to the highest action value
> (allow). Currently, a read of the sysctl file would return "kill trap
> errno trace allow". The contents of this sysctl file can be useful for
> userspace code as well as the system administrator.
>
> The path to the sysctl is:
>
> /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_avail
>
> libseccomp and other userspace code can easily determine which actions
> the current kernel supports. The set of actions supported by the current
> kernel may be different than the set of action macros found in kernel
> headers that were installed where the userspace code was built.

This is certainly good: having a discoverable way to detect filter
capabilities. I do wonder if it'd still be easier to just expose the
max_log sysctl as a numeric value, since the SECCOMP_RET_* values are
all part of uapi, so we can't escape their values...



>
> In addition, this sysctl will allow system administrators to know which
> actions are supported by the kernel and make it easier to configure
> exactly what seccomp logs through the audit subsystem. Support for this
> level of logging configuration will come in a future patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/seccomp.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
> index f7ce79a..919ad9f 100644
> --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
> +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
> @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
> #include <linux/atomic.h>
> #include <linux/audit.h>
> #include <linux/compat.h>
> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
> #include <linux/sched.h>
> #include <linux/seccomp.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> +#include <linux/sysctl.h>
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
> #include <asm/syscall.h>
> @@ -905,3 +907,51 @@ long seccomp_get_filter(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long filter_off,
> return ret;
> }
> #endif
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
> +
> +#define SECCOMP_RET_KILL_NAME "kill"
> +#define SECCOMP_RET_TRAP_NAME "trap"
> +#define SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO_NAME "errno"
> +#define SECCOMP_RET_TRACE_NAME "trace"
> +#define SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW_NAME "allow"
> +
> +static char seccomp_actions_avail[] = SECCOMP_RET_KILL_NAME " "
> + SECCOMP_RET_TRAP_NAME " "
> + SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO_NAME " "
> + SECCOMP_RET_TRACE_NAME " "
> + SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW_NAME;
> +
> +static struct ctl_path seccomp_sysctl_path[] = {
> + { .procname = "kernel", },
> + { .procname = "seccomp", },
> + { }
> +};
> +
> +static struct ctl_table seccomp_sysctl_table[] = {
> + {
> + .procname = "actions_avail",
> + .data = &seccomp_actions_avail,
> + .maxlen = sizeof(seccomp_actions_avail),
> + .mode = 0444,
> + .proc_handler = proc_dostring,
> + },
> + { }
> +};
> +
> +static int __init seccomp_sysctl_init(void)
> +{
> + struct ctl_table_header *hdr;
> +
> + hdr = register_sysctl_paths(seccomp_sysctl_path, seccomp_sysctl_table);
> + kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);

Will kmemleak complain about this if hdr is saved to a global (or not
saved at all)? Also, something should be reported in the failure
case...

> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +#else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
> +
> +static __init int seccomp_sysctl_init(void) { return 0; }
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
> +
> +device_initcall(seccomp_sysctl_init)
> --
> 2.7.4
>

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security