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Date:	Tue, 27 May 2014 11:24:16 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] seccomp: add SECCOMP_EXT_ACT_TSYNC and SECCOMP_FILTER_TSYNC

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>>> Applying restrictive seccomp filter programs to large or diverse
>>>> codebases often requires handling threads which may be started early in
>>>> the process lifetime (e.g., by code that is linked in). While it is
>>>> possible to apply permissive programs prior to process start up, it is
>>>> difficult to further restrict the kernel ABI to those threads after that
>>>> point.
>>>>
>>>> This change adds a new seccomp extension action for synchronizing thread
>>>> group seccomp filters and a prctl() for accessing that functionality,
>>>> as well as a flag for SECCOMP_EXT_ACT_FILTER to perform sync at filter
>>>> installation time.
>>>>
>>>> When calling prctl(PR_SECCOMP_EXT, SECCOMP_EXT_ACT, SECCOMP_EXT_ACT_FILTER,
>>>> flags, filter) with flags containing SECCOMP_FILTER_TSYNC, or when calling
>>>> prctl(PR_SECCOMP_EXT, SECCOMP_EXT_ACT, SECCOMP_EXT_ACT_TSYNC, 0, 0), it
>>>> will attempt to synchronize all threads in current's threadgroup to its
>>>> seccomp filter program. This is possible iff all threads are using a filter
>>>> that is an ancestor to the filter current is attempting to synchronize to.
>>>> NULL filters (where the task is running as SECCOMP_MODE_NONE) are also
>>>> treated as ancestors allowing threads to be transitioned into
>>>> SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER. If prctrl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, ...) has been set on the
>>>> calling thread, no_new_privs will be set for all synchronized threads too.
>>>> On success, 0 is returned. On failure, the pid of one of the failing threads
>>>> will be returned, with as many filters installed as possible.
>>>
>>> Is there a use case for adding a filter and synchronizing filters
>>> being separate operations?  If not, I think this would be easier to
>>> understand and to use if there was just a single operation.
>>
>> Yes: if the other thread's lifetime is not well controlled, it's good
>> to be able to have a distinct interface to retry the thread sync that
>> doesn't require adding "no-op" filters.
>
> Wouldn't this still be solved by:
>
> seccomp_add_filter(final_filter, SECCOMP_FILTER_ALL_THREADS);
>
> the idea would be that, if seccomp_add_filter fails, then you give up
> and, if it succeeds, then you're done.  It shouldn't fail unless out
> of memory or you've nested too deeply.

I wanted to keep the case of being able to to wait for non-ancestor
threads to finish. For example, 2 threads start and set separate
filters. 1 does work and exits, 2 starts another thread (3) which adds
filters, does work, and then waits for 1 to finish by calling TSYNC.
Once 1 dies, TSYNC succeeds. In the case of not having direct control
over thread lifetime (say, when using third-party libraries), I'd like
to retain the flexibility of being able to do TSYNC without needing a
filter being attached to it.

>>> If you did that, you'd have to decide whether to continue requiring
>>> that all the other threads have a filter that's an ancestor of the
>>> current thread's filter.
>>
>> This is required no matter what to make sure there is no way to
>> replace a filter tree with a different one (allowing accidental
>> bypasses, misbehavior, etc).
>
> What I mean is:  should the add-new-filter-to-all-threads operation
> add the new filter to all threads, regardless of what their current
> state is, or should it fail if any thread has a filter that isn't an
> ancestor of the current thread's filter?  Either version should be
> safe.

It should fail -- we don't want to run the risk of effectively
replacing a filter out from under a thread. Adding additional
restrictions is safe as long as we retain the nnp from the caller .

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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