On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:37:20AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 11:32:04AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 02:12:26AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:

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On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 10:58:25AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:

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Since the write handler for /proc/<pid>/mem does raise FOLL_FORCE
unconditionally it likely would implicitly. But I'm not familiar enough
with FOLL_FORCE to say for sure.

I should phrase the question better. :) Is the supervisor writing into
read-only regions of the child process?

Hm... I suspect we don't. Let's take two concrete examples so you can
tell me.

Incus intercepts the sysinfo() syscall. It prepares a struct sysinfo
with cgroup aware values for the supervised process and then does:

unix.Pwrite(siov.memFd, &sysinfo, sizeof(struct sysinfo), seccomp_data.args[0]))

It also intercepts some bpf system calls attaching bpf programs for the
caller. If that fails we update the log buffer for the supervised
process:

union bpf_attr attr = {}, new_attr = {};

// read struct bpf_attr from mem_fd
ret = pread(mem_fd, &attr, attr_len, req->data.args[1]);
if (ret < 0)
        return -errno;

// Do stuff with attr. Stuff fails. Update log buffer for supervised process:
if ((new_attr.log_size) > 0 && (pwrite(mem_fd, new_attr.log_buf, new_attr.log_size, attr.log_buf) != new_attr.log_size))

This is almost certainly in writable memory (either stack or .data).

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But I'm not sure if there are other use-cases that would require this.

Maybe this option needs to be per-process (like no_new_privs), and with
a few access levels:

- as things are now
- no FOLL_FORCE unless by ptracer
- no writes unless by ptracer
- no FOLL_FORCE ever
- no writes ever
- no reads unless by ptracer
- no reads ever

Doing it as a prctl() would be fine.