Re: [PATCH v7 1/6] seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2018-09-27, Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch introduces a means for syscalls matched in seccomp to notify
> some other task that a particular filter has been triggered.
> 
> The motivation for this is primarily for use with containers. For example,
> if a container does an init_module(), we obviously don't want to load this
> untrusted code, which may be compiled for the wrong version of the kernel
> anyway. Instead, we could parse the module image, figure out which module
> the container is trying to load and load it on the host.
> 
> As another example, containers cannot mknod(), since this checks
> capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN). However, harmless devices like /dev/null or
> /dev/zero should be ok for containers to mknod, but we'd like to avoid hard
> coding some whitelist in the kernel. Another example is mount(), which has
> many security restrictions for good reason, but configuration or runtime
> knowledge could potentially be used to relax these restrictions.

Minor thing, but this is no longer _entirely_ true (now it checks
ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns)). I think the kernel module auto-loading is a
much more interesting example, but since this is just a commit message
feel free to ignore my pedantry. :P

> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Akihiro Suda <suda.akihiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Would you mind adding me to the Cc: list for the next round of patches?
It's looking pretty neat!

Thanks!

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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