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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION] 5.16rc1: SA_IMMUTABLE breaks debuggers
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 05:20:33PM -0800, Kyle Huey wrote:
> Yeah that's one way to solve the problem. I think you're right that
> fundamentally the problem here is that what SECCOMP_RET_KILL wants is
> not really a signal. To the extent that it wants a signal, what it
> really wants is SIGKILL, and the problem here is the code trying to
> act like SIGKILL but call it SIGSYS. I assume the ship for fixing that
> sailed years ago though.

Yeah, this was IIRC, a specific design choice (to distinguish a seccomp
KILL from a SIGKILL), as desired by the sandboxing folks, and instead
of using two different signals (one for KILL and one for TRAP), both
used SIGSYS, with the KILL variant being uncatchable.

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Kees Cook

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