Re: [PATCH v5 seccomp 5/5] seccomp/cache: Report cache data through /proc/pid/seccomp_cache

From: Jann Horn
Date: Mon Oct 12 2020 - 02:52:16 EST


On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 5:48 PM YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently the kernel does not provide an infrastructure to translate
> architecture numbers to a human-readable name. Translating syscall
> numbers to syscall names is possible through FTRACE_SYSCALL
> infrastructure but it does not provide support for compat syscalls.
>
> This will create a file for each PID as /proc/pid/seccomp_cache.
> The file will be empty when no seccomp filters are loaded, or be
> in the format of:
> <arch name> <decimal syscall number> <ALLOW | FILTER>
> where ALLOW means the cache is guaranteed to allow the syscall,
> and filter means the cache will pass the syscall to the BPF filter.
>
> For the docker default profile on x86_64 it looks like:
> x86_64 0 ALLOW
> x86_64 1 ALLOW
> x86_64 2 ALLOW
> x86_64 3 ALLOW
> [...]
> x86_64 132 ALLOW
> x86_64 133 ALLOW
> x86_64 134 FILTER
> x86_64 135 FILTER
> x86_64 136 FILTER
> x86_64 137 ALLOW
> x86_64 138 ALLOW
> x86_64 139 FILTER
> x86_64 140 ALLOW
> x86_64 141 ALLOW
> [...]
>
> This file is guarded by CONFIG_SECCOMP_CACHE_DEBUG with a default
> of N because I think certain users of seccomp might not want the
> application to know which syscalls are definitely usable. For
> the same reason, it is also guarded by CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
>
> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez3Ofqp4crXGksLmZY6=fGrF_tWyUCg7PBkAetvbbOPeOA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <yifeifz2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>