Re: Semantics of SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT?

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2021-06-29, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I am the process of cleaning up the process exit path in the kernel, and
> as part of that I am looking at the callers of do_exit.  A very
> interesting one is __seccure_computing_strict.
> 
> Looking at the code is very clear that if a system call is attempted
> that is not in the table the thread attempting to execute that system
> call is terminated.
> 
> Reading the man page for seccomp it says that the process is delivered
> SIGKILL.
> 
> The practical difference is what happens for multi-threaded
> applications.
> 
> What are the desired semantics for a multi-threaded application if one
> thread attempts to use a unsupported system call?  Should the thread be
> terminated or the entire application?
> 
> Do we need to fix the kernel, or do we need to fix the manpages?

My expectation is that the correct action should be the equivalent of
SECCOMP_RET_KILL(_THREAD) which kills the thread and is the current
behaviour (SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS is relatively speaking quite new).

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
<https://www.cyphar.com/>

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