On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:49 AM Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

For systems that provide multiple syscall maps based on architectures
(e.g. AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64 and AUDIT_ARCH_I386 via CONFIG_COMPAT), allow
a fast way to pin the process to a specific syscall mapping, instead of
needing to generate all filters with an architecture check as the first
filter action.

This seems reasonable; but can we maybe also add X86-specific handling
for that X32 mess? AFAIK there are four ways to do syscalls with
AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64:

1. normal x86-64 syscall, X32 bit unset (native case)
2. normal x86-64 syscall, X32 bit set (for X32 code calling syscalls
with no special X32 version)
3. x32-specific syscall, X32 bit unset (never happens legitimately)
4. x32-specific syscall, X32 bit set (for X32 code calling syscalls
with special X32 version)

(I got this wrong when I wrote the notes on x32 in the seccomp manpage...)

Can we add a flag for AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64 that says either "I want
native x64-64" (enforcing case 1) or "I want X32" (enforcing case 2 or
4, and in case 2 checking that the syscall has no X32 equivalent)? (Of
course, if the kernel is built without X32 support, we can leave out
these extra checks.)

+static long seccomp_pin_architecture(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+       u32 arch = syscall_get_arch(current);
+
+       /* How did you even get here? */
+       if (current->seccomp.arch && current->seccomp.arch != arch)
+               return -EBUSY;
+
+       current->seccomp.arch = arch;
+#endif
+       return 0;
+}

Are you intentionally writing this such that SECCOMP_PIN_ARCHITECTURE
only has an effect once you've installed a filter, and propagation to
other threads happens when a filter is installed with TSYNC? I guess
that is a possible way to design the API, but it seems like something
that should at least be pointed out explicitly.