Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 15:21 -0700, Markus Gutschke (éåå) wrote:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 15:13, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > doing a (per arch) bitmap of harmless syscalls and replacing the
> > > mode1_syscalls[] check with that in kernel/seccomp.c would be a
> > > pretty reasonable extension. (.config controllable perhaps, for
> > > old-style-seccomp)
> > >
> > > It would probably be faster than the current loop over
> > > mode1_syscalls[] as well.
> > 
> > This would be a great option to improve performance of our sandbox. I
> > can detect the availability of the new kernel API dynamically, and
> > then not intercept the bulk of the system calls. This would allow the
> > sandbox to work both with existing and with newer kernels.
> > 
> > We'll post a kernel patch for discussion in the next few days,
> > 
> 
> I suspect the correct thing to do would be to leave seccomp mode 1 
> alone and introduce a mode 2 with a less restricted set of system 
> calls -- the interface was designed to be extended in this way, 
> after all.

Yes, that is what i alluded to above via the '.config controllable' 
aspect.

Mode 2 could be implemented like this: extend prctl_set_seccomp() 
with a bitmap pointer, and copy it to a per task seccomp context 
structure.

a bitmap for 300 syscalls takes only about 40 bytes.

Please take care to implement nesting properly: if a seccomp context 
does a seccomp call (which mode 2 could allow), then the resulting 
bitmap should be the logical-AND of the parent and child bitmaps. 
There's no reason why seccomp couldnt be used in hiearachy of 
sandboxes, in a gradually less permissive fashion.

	Ingo
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