Re: [5.2 REGRESSION] Generic vDSO breaks seccomp-enabled userspace on i386

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Jul 23 2019 - 10:04:51 EST




> On Jul 23, 2019, at 2:18 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 04:47:36PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
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>> I don't love this whole concept, but I also don't have a better idea.
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> Are we really talking about changing the kernel because BPF is expecting
> things? That is, did we just elevate everything BPF can observe to ABI?
>

No, this isnât about internals in the kernel mode sense. Itâs about the smallish number of cases where the kernel causes user code to do a specific syscall and the user has a policy that doesnât allow that syscall. This is visible to user code via seccomp and ptrace.

Yes, itâs obnoxious. Do you have any suggestions?