Re: Linux 5.0-rc2 seccomp_bpf user_notification_basic test hangs

From: Tycho Andersen
Date: Thu Jan 17 2019 - 11:27:09 EST


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 08:12:50AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM shuah <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am running Linux 5.0-rc2 and not an older kernel.
>
> Weird. I couldn't reproduce this on 5.0-rc2, but I did see it on a
> kernel without seccomp user_notif. Does the patch I sent fix it for
> you? (And if so, can you take it in your tree?)

I can reproduce it; you have to run it as non-root. I think your patch
is necessary to get it to at least fail. The question is: what should
we do about these tests that require real root? Skip them if we're not
real-root, I guess?

Tycho