linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 5.16rc1: SA

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Date:   Fri, 19 Nov 2021 08:35:58 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        Robert O'Callahan <rocallahan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 5.16rc1: SA_IMMUTABLE breaks debuggers

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 08:07:36AM -0800, Kyle Huey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:12 AM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> > Kyle thank you for your explanation of what breaks.  For future kernels
> > I do need to do some work in this area and I will copy on the patches
> > going forward.  In particular I strongly suspect that changing the
> > sigaction and blocked state of the signal for these synchronous signals
> > is the wrong thing to do, especially if the process is not killed.  I
> > want to find another solution that does not break things but that also
> > does not change the program state behind the programs back so things
> > work differently under the debugger.
> 
> The heads up in the future is appreciated, thanks.

Yeah, I wonder if we could add you as a Reviewer in the MAINTAINERS file
for ptrace/signal stuff? Then anyone using scripts/get_maintainers.pl
would have a CC to you added.

Also, are there more instructions about running the rr tests? When the
execve refactoring was happening, I tried it[1], but the results were
unclear (there seemed to be a lot of warnings and it made me think I'd
done something wrong on my end).

-Kees

[1] https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/wiki/Building-And-Installing#tests

-- 
Kees Cook