[PATCH] seccomp: passthrough uretprobe systemcall without filtering

Eyal Birger
2025-01-17T00:56:05Z

When attaching uretprobes to processes running inside docker, the attached
process is segfaulted when encountering the retprobe.

The reason is that now that uretprobe is a system call the default seccomp
filters in docker block it as they only allow a specific set of known
syscalls. This is true for other userspace applications which use seccomp
to control their syscall surface.

Since uretprobe is a "kernel implementation detail" system call which is
not used by userspace application code directly, it is impractical and
there's very little point in forcing all userspace applications to
explicitly allow it in order to avoid crashing tracked processes.

Pass this systemcall through seccomp without depending on configuration.

Fixes: ff474a78cef5 ("uprobe: Add uretprobe syscall to speed up return probe")
Reported-by: Rafael Buchbinder <rafi@rbk.io>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHsH6Gs3Eh8DFU0wq58c_LF8A4_+o6z456J7BidmcVY2AqOnHQ@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eyal Birger <eyal.birger@gmail.com>
---

The following reproduction script synthetically demonstrates the problem:

cat > /tmp/x.c << EOF

char *syscalls[] = {
"write",
"exit_group",
"fstat",
};

__attribute__((noinline)) int probed(void)
{
printf("Probed\n");
return 1;
}

void apply_seccomp_filter(char **syscalls, int num_syscalls)
{
scmp_filter_ctx ctx;

ctx = seccomp_init(SCMP_ACT_KILL);
for (int i = 0; i < num_syscalls; i++) {
seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_ACT_ALLOW,
seccomp_syscall_resolve_name(syscalls[i]), 0);
}
seccomp_load(ctx);
seccomp_release(ctx);
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int num_syscalls = sizeof(syscalls) / sizeof(syscalls[0]);

apply_seccomp_filter(syscalls, num_syscalls);

probed();

return 0;
}
EOF

cat > /tmp/trace.bt << EOF
uretprobe:/tmp/x:probed
{
printf("ret=%d\n", retval);
}
EOF

gcc -o /tmp/x /tmp/x.c -lseccomp

/usr/bin/bpftrace /tmp/trace.bt &

sleep 5 # wait for uretprobe attach
/tmp/x

pkill bpftrace

rm /tmp/x /tmp/x.c /tmp/trace.bt
---
kernel/seccomp.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
index 385d48293a5f..10a55c9b5c18 100644
--- a/kernel/seccomp.c
+++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
@@ -1359,6 +1359,11 @@ int __secure_computing(const struct seccomp_data *sd)
this_syscall = sd ? sd->nr :
syscall_get_nr(current, current_pt_regs());

+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+ if (unlikely(this_syscall == __NR_uretprobe) && !in_ia32_syscall())
+ return 0;
+#endif
+
switch (mode) {
case SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT:
__secure_computing_strict(this_syscall); /* may call do_exit */
--
2.43.0