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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] seccomp: add ptrace options for suspend/resume
On 06/13/2015 06:02 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> This patch is the first step in enabling checkpoint/restore of processes
> with seccomp enabled.
>
> One of the things CRIU does while dumping tasks is inject code into them
> via ptrace to collect information that is only available to the process
> itself. However, if we are in a seccomp mode where these processes are
> prohibited from making these syscalls, then what CRIU does kills the task.
>
> This patch adds a new ptrace option, PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP, that enables
> a task from the init user namespace which has CAP_SYS_ADMIN and no seccomp
> filters to disable (and re-enable) seccomp filters for another task so that
> they can be successfully dumped (and restored). We restrict the set of
> processes that can disable seccomp through ptrace because although today
> ptrace can be used to bypass seccomp, there is some discussion of closing
> this loophole in the future and we would like this patch to not depend on
> that behavior and be future proofed for when it is removed.
>
> Note that seccomp can be suspended before any filters are actually
> installed; this behavior is useful on criu restore, so that we can suspend
> seccomp, restore the filters, unmap our restore code from the restored
> process' address space, and then resume the task by detaching and have the
> filters resumed as well.
>
> v2 changes:
>
> * require that the tracer have no seccomp filters installed
> * drop TIF_NOTSC manipulation from the patch
> * change from ptrace command to a ptrace option and use this ptrace option
> as the flag to check. This means that as soon as the tracer
> detaches/dies, seccomp is re-enabled and as a corrollary that one can not
> disable seccomp across PTRACE_ATTACHs.
>
> v3 changes:
>
> * get rid of various #ifdefs everywhere
> * report more sensible errors when PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP is incorrectly
> used
>
> v4 changes:
>
> * get rid of may_suspend_seccomp() in favor of a capable() check in ptrace
> directly
>
> v5 changes:
>
> * check that seccomp is not enabled (or suspended) on the tracer
>
> Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
> CC: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
> CC: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
> CC: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
> CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
> CC: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>

Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>




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