[RFC PATCH 4/6] um: forbid mmap/munmap in the stub seccomp filter
From: Cong Wang
Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 16:55:30 EST
From: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In seccomp mode the monitor now installs all guest mappings via
pidfd_mmap(), so the stub has no legitimate need to mmap/munmap after
its filter is in place (the pre-filter bootstrap mmaps are unaffected).
Drop the STUB_MMAP_NR and __NR_munmap allowlist arms and fix the jump
offsets; both now hit SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS. A hijacked stub can no
longer map arbitrary physmem. The filter exists only in seccomp mode,
so ptrace (SKAS0) is untouched.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c | 20 +++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c b/arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c
index cbafaa684e66..a88274449168 100644
--- a/arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c
+++ b/arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c
@@ -165,16 +165,18 @@ noinline static void real_init(void)
BPF_STMT(BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_ABS,
offsetof(struct seccomp_data, nr)),
- /* [10-16] Check against permitted syscalls */
+ /*
+ * [10-14] Check against permitted syscalls. mmap and
+ * munmap are deliberately absent: in seccomp mode the
+ * monitor installs all guest mappings via pidfd_mmap(),
+ * so a stub that attempts mmap/munmap hits the KILL at
+ * [15].
+ */
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_futex,
- 7, 0),
- BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K,__NR_recvmsg,
- 6, 0),
- BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K,__NR_close,
5, 0),
- BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, STUB_MMAP_NR,
+ BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_recvmsg,
4, 0),
- BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_munmap,
+ BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_close,
3, 0),
#ifdef __i386__
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_set_thread_area,
@@ -186,10 +188,10 @@ noinline static void real_init(void)
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, __NR_rt_sigreturn,
1, 0),
- /* [17] Not one of the permitted syscalls */
+ /* [15] Not one of the permitted syscalls */
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS),
- /* [18] Permitted call for the stub */
+ /* [16] Permitted call for the stub */
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW),
};
struct sock_fprog prog = {
--
2.43.0