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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kusaram Devineni <kusaram@devineni.in>,
	Max Ver <dudududumaxver@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] seccomp: defer syscall_rollback() to get_signal()
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:44:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad9sCZbKTrNIAOuq@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad5voOrbqayQBgNk@redhat.com>

On 04/14, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Kees, Andy, et al, please comment. I think the usage of syscall_rollback()
> in __seccomp_filter() is not right.

I'll recheck, but in fact this logic looks broken... force_sig_seccomp() assumes
that it can't race with (say) SIGSEGV which has a handler. And 2/2 makes the things
slightly worse. So self-nack for now.

> In fact I think that syscall_exit_work() should do nothing if a
> syscall was rejected with force_sig_seccomp() by __seccomp_filter().
> If nothing else, the syscall was never actually executed.
>
> Perhaps we can add a new SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_XXX to SYSCALL_WORK_EXIT.
> seccomp_nack_syscall() can set this flag, and syscall_exit_work() can do
>
> 	if (work & SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_XXX) {
> 		clear_syscall_work(SYSCALL_XXX); // for the !force_coredump case
> 		return;
> 	}
>
> after the "if (SYSCALL_WORK_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH)" block.
>
> But I didn't dare to do such a change.
>
> What do you think?

I'll try to send a patch based on above this week.

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-15 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-14 16:47 [RFC PATCH 0/2] seccomp: defer syscall_rollback() to get_signal() Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-14 16:48 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] seccomp: introduce seccomp_nack_syscall() helper Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-14 16:48 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] seccomp: defer syscall_rollback() to get_signal() Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-14 17:27   ` Kees Cook
2026-04-14 17:41     ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-15 15:50       ` Kees Cook
2026-04-15 16:08         ` Oleg Nesterov
2026-04-15 10:44 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2026-04-15 16:07   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] " Kees Cook
2026-04-15 19:21   ` Kees Cook
2026-04-16 14:07     ` Oleg Nesterov

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