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Date:   Sun, 25 Oct 2020 13:42:57 +0000
From:   Jordan Glover <Golden_Miller83@...tonmail.ch>
To:     Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com>
Cc:     Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@....com>,
        Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@....com>,
        "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "libc-alpha@...rceware.org" <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
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        <systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Dave Martin <dave.martin@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
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Subject: Re: BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures

On Saturday, October 24, 2020 2:12 PM, Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 at 12:34, Topi Miettinen toiwoton@...il.com wrote:
>
> > On 23.10.2020 20.52, Salvatore Mesoraca wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 23:24, Topi Miettinen toiwoton@...il.com wrote:
> > >
> > > > SARA looks interesting. What is missing is a prctl() to enable all W^X
> > > > protections irrevocably for the current process, then systemd could
> > > > enable it for services with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes.
> > >
> > > SARA actually has a procattr[0] interface to do just that.
> > > There is also a library[1] to help using it.
> >
> > That means that /proc has to be available and writable at that point, so
> > setting up procattrs has to be done before mount namespaces are set up.
> > In general, it would be nice for sandboxing facilities in kernel if
> > there would be a way to start enforcing restrictions only at next
> > execve(), like setexeccon() for SELinux and aa_change_onexec() for
> > AppArmor. Otherwise the exact order of setting up various sandboxing
> > options can be very tricky to arrange correctly, since each option may
> > have a subtle effect to the sandboxing features enabled later. In case
> > of SARA, the operations done between shuffling the mount namespace and
> > before execve() shouldn't be affected so it isn't important. Even if it
> > did (a new sandboxing feature in the future would need trampolines or
> > JIT code generation), maybe the procattr file could be opened early but
> > it could be written closer to execve().
>
> A new "apply on exec" procattr file seems reasonable and relatively easy to add.
> As Kees pointed out, the main obstacle here is the fact that SARA is
> not upstream :(
>
> Salvatore

Is there a chance we will see new SARA iteration soon on lkml? :)

Jordan

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