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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] seccomp: add a return code to trap to userspace
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 12:27:43AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:51 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> > > One possible extra issue: IIRC /proc/.../mem uses FOLL_FORCE, which is not what we want here.
>
> Uuugh, I forgot about that.
>
> > > How about just adding an explicit “read/write the seccomp-trapped task’s memory” primitive? That should be easier than a “open mem fd” primitive.
> >
> > Uuugh. Can we avoid adding another "read/write remote process memory"
> > interface? The point of this series was to provide a lightweight
> > approach to what should normally be possible via the existing
> > seccomp+ptrace interface. I do like Jann's context idea, but I agree
> > with Andy: it can't be a handle to /proc/$pid/mem, since it's
> > FOLL_FORCE. Is there any other kind of process context id we can use
> > for this instead of pid? There was once an idea of pid-fd but it never
> > landed... This would let us get rid of the "id" in the structure too.
> > And if that existed, we could make process_vm_*v() safer too (taking a
> > pid-fd instead of a pid).
>
> Or make a duplicate of /proc/$pid/mem that only differs in whether it
> sets FOLL_FORCE? The code is basically already there... something like
> this:

But we want more than just memory access, I think. rootfs access, ns
fds, etc. all seem like they might be useful, and racy to open.

I guess I see two options: use the existing id and add something to
seccomp() to ask if it's still valid or independent of this patchset
add some kind of pid id :\

Tycho

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