linux-kernel - Re: ARM seccomp filters and EABI/OABI

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Date:	Mon, 28 Oct 2013 23:16:20 +0100
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
CC:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	libseccomp-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ARM seccomp filters and EABI/OABI

Am 28.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Paul Moore:
> On Thursday, October 24, 2013 09:55:57 PM Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> 
> wrote:
>>> I'm looking at the seccomp code, the ARM entry code, and the
>>> syscall(2) manpage, and I'm a bit lost.  (The fact that I don't really
>>> speak ARM assembly doesn't help.)  My basic question is: what happens
>>> if an OABI syscall happens?
>>>
>>> AFAICS, the syscall arguments for EABI are r0..r5, although their
>>> ordering is a bit odd*.  For OABI, r6 seems to play some role, but I'm
>>> lost as to what it is.  The seccomp_bpf_load function won't load r6,
>>> so there had better not be anything useful in there...  (Also, struct
>>> seccomp_data will have issues with a seventh "argument".)
>>>
>>> But what happens to the syscall number?  For an EABI syscall, it's in
>>> r7.  For an OABI syscall, it's in the swi instruction and gets copied
>>> to r7 on entry.  If a debugger changes r7, presumably the syscall
>>> number changes.
>>>
>>> Oddly, there are two different syscall tables.  The major differences
>>> seem to be that some of the OABI entries have their argument order
>>> changed.  But there's also a magic constant 0x900000 added to the
>>> syscall number somewhere -- is it reflected in _sigsys._syscall?  Is
>>> it reflected in ucontext's r7?
>>>
>>> I'm a bit surprised to see that both the EABI and OABI ABIs show up as
>>> AUDIT_ARCH_ARM.
>>>
>>> Can any of you shed some light on this?  I don't have an ARM system I
>>> can test on, but if one of you can point me at a decent QEMU image, I
>>> can play around.
>>
>> Maybe this helps:
>> http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, although those images look quite old, has anyone done 
> a refresh?

You are free to run "apt-get upgrade" within the said images. :-)

Thanks,
//richard
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