Re: Linux 5.0-rc2 seccomp_bpf user_notification_basic test hangs

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Jan 16 2019 - 19:30:44 EST


On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 4:01 PM shuah <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Kees and James,
>
> seccomp_bpf test hangs right after the following test passes
> with EBUSY. Please see log at the end.
>
> /* Installing a second listener in the chain should EBUSY */
> EXPECT_EQ(user_trap_syscall(__NR_getpid,
> SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER),
> -1);
> EXPECT_EQ(errno, EBUSY);
>
>
> The user_notification_basic test starts running I assume and then
> the hang.
>
> The only commit I see that could be suspect is the following as
> it talks about adding SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF
>
> commit d9a7fa67b4bfe6ce93ee9aab23ae2e7ca0763e84
> Merge: f218a29c25ad 55b8cbe470d1
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Jan 2 09:48:13 2019 -0800
>
> Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
>
> Pull seccomp updates from James Morris:
>
> - Add SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF
>
> - seccomp fixes for sparse warnings and s390 build (Tycho)
>
> * 'next-seccomp' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
> seccomp, s390: fix build for syscall type change
> seccomp: fix poor type promotion
> samples: add an example of seccomp user trap
> seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace
> seccomp: switch system call argument type to void *
> seccomp: hoist struct seccomp_data recalculation higher
>
>
> Any ideas on how to proceed? Here is the log. The following
> reproduces the problem.
>
> make -C tools/testing/selftests/seccomp/ run_tests
>
>
> seccomp_bpf.c:2947:global.get_metadata:Expected 0 (0) ==
> seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG, &prog)
> (18446744073709551615)
> seccomp_bpf.c:2959:global.get_metadata:Expected 1 (1) == read(pipefd[0],
> &buf, 1) (0)
> global.get_metadata: Test terminated by assertion
> [ FAIL ] global.get_metadata
> [ RUN ] global.user_notification_basic
> seccomp_bpf.c:3036:global.user_notification_basic:Expected 0 (0) ==
> WEXITSTATUS(status) (1)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3039:global.user_notification_basic:Expected
> seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &prog) (18446744073709551615) == 0 (0)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3040:global.user_notification_basic:Expected
> seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &prog) (18446744073709551615) == 0 (0)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3041:global.user_notification_basic:Expected
> seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &prog) (18446744073709551615) == 0 (0)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3042:global.user_notification_basic:Expected
> seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER, 0, &prog) (18446744073709551615) == 0 (0)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3047:global.user_notification_basic:Expected listener
> (18446744073709551615) >= 0 (0)
> seccomp_bpf.c:3053:global.user_notification_basic:Expected errno (13) ==
> EBUSY (16)

Looks like the test is unfriendly when running the current selftest on
an old kernel version. A quick look seems like it's missing some
ASSERT_* cases where EXPECT_* is used. I'll send a patch.

--
Kees Cook