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Date:	Thu, 7 Nov 2013 09:54:09 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	libseccomp-discuss@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: ARM audit, seccomp, etc are broken wrt OABI syscalls

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@....eng.br> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> Maybe the thing to do is to put a warning in the config text for
>> CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT that describes the problems (malicious userspace
>> can confuse syscall auditors, strace, etc.), change the "if in doubt"
>> part to N, and disable seccomp filters if CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT.  That
>> might even get Debian to change their default.
>
> Bug reported to the Debian BTS: #728975
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728975

FWIW, Ubuntu has also now disabled OABI_COMPAT going forward:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-November/034242.html

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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