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Message-ID: <f3e803e5-8c63-9a49-272e-aedf26728b78@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:43:14 -0600
From: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>, linux-audit@...hat.com,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] seccomp: Add sysctl to display available actions
On 02/15/2017 07:00 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com> wrote:
>> This patch creates a read-only sysctl containing an ordered list of
>> seccomp actions that the kernel supports. The ordering, from left to
>> right, is the lowest action value (kill) to the highest action value
>> (allow). Currently, a read of the sysctl file would return "kill trap
>> errno trace allow". The contents of this sysctl file can be useful for
>> userspace code as well as the system administrator.
>>
>> The path to the sysctl is:
>>
>> /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_avail
>>
>> libseccomp and other userspace code can easily determine which actions
>> the current kernel supports. The set of actions supported by the current
>> kernel may be different than the set of action macros found in kernel
>> headers that were installed where the userspace code was built.
>>
>> In addition, this sysctl will allow system administrators to know which
>> actions are supported by the kernel and make it easier to configure
>> exactly what seccomp logs through the audit subsystem. Support for this
>> level of logging configuration will come in a future patch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt | 16 ++++++++++
>> Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 1 +
>> kernel/seccomp.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 3 files changed, 72 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt b/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt
>> index 1e469ef..a5554ff 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt
>> @@ -166,7 +166,23 @@ The samples/seccomp/ directory contains both an x86-specific example
>> and a more generic example of a higher level macro interface for BPF
>> program generation.
>>
>> +Sysctls
>> +-------
>> +
>> +Seccomp's sysctl files can be found in the /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/
>> +directory. Here's a description of each file in that directory:
>> +
>> +actions_avail:
>> + A read-only ordered list of seccomp return values (refer to the
>> + SECCOMP_RET_* macros above) in string form. The ordering, from
>> + left-to-right, is the least permissive return value to the most
>> + permissive return value.
>>
>> + The list represents the set of seccomp return values supported
>> + by the kernel. A userspace program may use this list to
>> + determine if the actions found in the seccomp.h, when the
>> + program was built, differs from the set of actions actually
>> + supported in the current running kernel.
>>
>> Adding architecture support
>> -----------------------
>> diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> index a32b4b7..56f9b29 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
>> @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
>> - reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ]
>> - rtsig-max
>> - rtsig-nr
>> +- seccomp/ ==> Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt
>> - sem
>> - sem_next_id [ sysv ipc ]
>> - sg-big-buff [ generic SCSI device (sg) ]
>> diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
>> index f7ce79a..e36dfe9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
>> +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
>> @@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
>> #include <linux/atomic.h>
>> #include <linux/audit.h>
>> #include <linux/compat.h>
>> +#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
>> #include <linux/sched.h>
>> #include <linux/seccomp.h>
>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
>> +#include <linux/sysctl.h>
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
>> #include <asm/syscall.h>
>> @@ -905,3 +907,56 @@ long seccomp_get_filter(struct task_struct *task, unsigned long filter_off,
>> return ret;
>> }
>> #endif
>> +
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
>> +
>> +/* Human readable action names for friendly sysctl interaction */
>> +#define SECCOMP_RET_KILL_NAME "kill"
>> +#define SECCOMP_RET_TRAP_NAME "trap"
>> +#define SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO_NAME "errno"
>> +#define SECCOMP_RET_TRACE_NAME "trace"
>> +#define SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW_NAME "allow"
>> +
>> +static char seccomp_actions_avail[] = SECCOMP_RET_KILL_NAME " "
>> + SECCOMP_RET_TRAP_NAME " "
>> + SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO_NAME " "
>> + SECCOMP_RET_TRACE_NAME " "
>> + SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW_NAME;
>> +
>> +static struct ctl_path seccomp_sysctl_path[] = {
>> + { .procname = "kernel", },
>> + { .procname = "seccomp", },
>> + { }
>> +};
>> +
>> +static struct ctl_table seccomp_sysctl_table[] = {
>> + {
>> + .procname = "actions_avail",
>> + .data = &seccomp_actions_avail,
>> + .maxlen = sizeof(seccomp_actions_avail),
>> + .mode = 0444,
>> + .proc_handler = proc_dostring,
>> + },
>> + { }
>> +};
>> +
>> +static int __init seccomp_sysctl_init(void)
>> +{
>> + struct ctl_table_header *hdr;
>> +
>> + hdr = register_sysctl_paths(seccomp_sysctl_path, seccomp_sysctl_table);
>> + if (!hdr)
>> + pr_warn("seccomp: sysctl registration failed\n");
>> + else
>> + kmemleak_not_leak(hdr);
>> +
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> +#else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
>> +
>> +static __init int seccomp_sysctl_init(void) { return 0; }
>> +
>> +#endif /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
>> +
>> +device_initcall(seccomp_sysctl_init)
>
> Can the device_initcall() just live in the CONFIG_SYSCTL #ifdef to
> avoid the #else and stub?
Yes. That'll be a nice cleanup.
Tyler
>
> -Kees
>
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