Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] seccomp: make underlying bpf ref counted as well
From: Daniel Borkmann <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-11 16:04:15
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On 09/11/2015 04:44 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 03:02:36PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:quoted
On 09/11/2015 02:20 AM, Tycho Andersen wrote:quoted
In the next patch, we're going to add a way to access the underlying filters via bpf fds. This means that we need to ref-count both the struct seccomp_filter objects and the struct bpf_prog objects separately, in case a process dies but a filter is still referred to by another process. Additionally, we mark classic converted seccomp filters as seccomp eBPF programs, since they are a subset of what is supported in seccomp eBPF. Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <redacted> CC: Kees Cook <redacted> CC: Will Drewry <redacted> CC: Oleg Nesterov <redacted> CC: Andy Lutomirski <redacted> CC: Pavel Emelyanov <redacted> CC: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> CC: Alexei Starovoitov <redacted> CC: Daniel Borkmann <redacted> --- kernel/seccomp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c index 245df6b..afaeddf 100644 --- a/kernel/seccomp.c +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c@@ -378,6 +378,8 @@ static struct seccomp_filter *seccomp_prepare_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog) } atomic_set(&sfilter->usage, 1); + atomic_set(&sfilter->prog->aux->refcnt, 1); + sfilter->prog->type = BPF_PROG_TYPE_SECCOMP;So, if you do this, then this breaks the assumption of eBPF JITs that, currently, all classic converted BPF programs always have a prog->type of BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC (see: bpf_prog_was_classic()). Currently, JITs make use of this information to determine whether A and X mappings for such programs should or should not be cleared in the prologue (s390 currently). In the seccomp_prepare_filter() stage, we're already past that, so it will not cause an issue, but we certainly would need to be very careful in future, if bpf_prog_was_classic() is then used at a later stage when we already have a generated bpf_prog somewhere, as then this assumption will break.The only reason we need to do this is to allow BPF_DUMP_PROG to work, since we were restricting it to only allow dumping of seccomp programs, since those don't have maps. Instead, perhaps we could allow dumping of BPF_PROG_TYPE_SECCOMP and BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC?
There are possibilities that BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC is calling helpers already today, at least in networking case, not seccomp. So, since you want to export [classic -> eBPF] only for seccomp, put fds on them and dump these via bpf(2), you could allow that (with a big comment stating why it's safe), but mid-term we really need to sanitize all this stuff properly as this is needed for other types, too.