Re: [PATCH v7 3/6] seccomp: add a way to get a listener fd from ptrace

Tycho Andersen
2018-09-27T18:09:45Z

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 07:35:06PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 5:11 PM Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> wrote:
> >
> > As an alternative to SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_GET_LISTENER, perhaps a ptrace()
> > version which can acquire filters is useful. There are at least two reasons
> > this is preferable, even though it uses ptrace:
> >
> > 1. You can control tasks that aren't cooperating with you
> > 2. You can control tasks whose filters block sendmsg() and socket(); if the
> > task installs a filter which blocks these calls, there's no way with
> > SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_GET_LISTENER to get the fd out to the privileged task.
> [...]
> > diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
> > index 21fec73d45d4..289960ac181b 100644
> > --- a/kernel/ptrace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
> > @@ -1096,6 +1096,10 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
> > ret = seccomp_get_metadata(child, addr, datavp);
> > break;
> >
> > + case PTRACE_SECCOMP_NEW_LISTENER:
> > + ret = seccomp_new_listener(child, addr);
> > + break;
>
> Actually, could you amend this to also ensure that `data == 0` and
> return -EINVAL otherwise? Then if we want to abuse `data` for passing
> flags in the future, we don't have to worry about what happens if
> someone passes in garbage as `data`.

Yes, good idea. Thanks!

Tycho