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NAME top
seccomp_unotify - Seccomp user-space notification mechanismLIBRARY top
Standard C library (_libc_, _-lc_)SYNOPSIS top
**#include <linux/seccomp.h>**
**#include <linux/filter.h>**
**#include <linux/audit.h>**
**int seccomp(unsigned int** _operation_**, unsigned int** _flags_**, void ***_args_**);**
**#include <sys/ioctl.h>**
**int ioctl(int** _fd_**, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV,**
**struct seccomp_notif ***_req_**);**
**int ioctl(int** _fd_**, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND,**
**struct seccomp_notif_resp ***_resp_**);**
**int ioctl(int** _fd_**, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID, __u64 ***_id_**);**
**int ioctl(int** _fd_**, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD,**
**struct seccomp_notif_addfd ***_addfd_**);**DESCRIPTION top
This page describes the user-space notification mechanism provided
by the Secure Computing (seccomp) facility. As well as the use of
the **SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER** flag, the
**SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF** action value, and the
**SECCOMP_GET_NOTIF_SIZES** operation described in [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html), this
mechanism involves the use of a number of related [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html)
operations (described below).Overview In conventional usage of a seccomp filter, the decision about how to treat a system call is made by the filter itself. By contrast, the user-space notification mechanism allows the seccomp filter to delegate the handling of the system call to another user-space process. Note that this mechanism is explicitly not intended as a method implementing security policy; see NOTES.
In the discussion that follows, the thread(s) on which the seccomp
filter is installed is (are) referred to as the _target_, and the
process that is notified by the user-space notification mechanism
is referred to as the _supervisor_.
A suitably privileged supervisor can use the user-space
notification mechanism to perform actions on behalf of the target.
The advantage of the user-space notification mechanism is that the
supervisor will usually be able to retrieve information about the
target and the performed system call that the seccomp filter
itself cannot. (A seccomp filter is limited in the information it
can obtain and the actions that it can perform because it is
running on a virtual machine inside the kernel.)
An overview of the steps performed by the target and the
supervisor is as follows:
(1) The target establishes a seccomp filter in the usual manner,
but with two differences:
• The [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html) _flags_ argument includes the flag
**SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER**. Consequently, the
return value of the (successful) [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html) call is a new
"listening" file descriptor that can be used to receive
notifications. Only one "listening" seccomp filter can be
installed for a thread.
• In cases where it is appropriate, the seccomp filter
returns the action value **SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF**. This
return value will trigger a notification event.
(2) In order that the supervisor can obtain notifications using
the listening file descriptor, (a duplicate of) that file
descriptor must be passed from the target to the supervisor.
One way in which this could be done is by passing the file
descriptor over a UNIX domain socket connection between the
target and the supervisor (using the **SCM_RIGHTS** ancillary
message type described in [unix(7)](../man7/unix.7.html)). Another way to do this
is through the use of [pidfd_getfd(2)](../man2/pidfd%5Fgetfd.2.html).
(3) The supervisor will receive notification events on the
listening file descriptor. These events are returned as
structures of type _seccompnotif_. Because this structure and
its size may evolve over kernel versions, the supervisor must
first determine the size of this structure using the
[seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html) **SECCOMP_GET_NOTIF_SIZES** operation, which returns a
structure of type _seccompnotifsizes_. The supervisor
allocates a buffer of size _seccompnotifsizes.seccompnotif_
bytes to receive notification events. In addition,the
supervisor allocates another buffer of size
_seccompnotifsizes.seccompnotifresp_ bytes for the response
(a _struct seccompnotifresp_ structure) that it will provide
to the kernel (and thus the target).
(4) The target then performs its workload, which includes system
calls that will be controlled by the seccomp filter.
Whenever one of these system calls causes the filter to
return the **SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF** action value, the kernel
does _not_ (yet) execute the system call; instead, execution of
the target is temporarily blocked inside the kernel (in a
sleep state that is interruptible by signals) and a
notification event is generated on the listening file
descriptor.
(5) The supervisor can now repeatedly monitor the listening file
descriptor for **SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF**-triggered events. To
do this, the supervisor uses the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV**
[ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) operation to read information about a notification
event; this operation blocks until an event is available.
The operation returns a _seccompnotif_ structure containing
information about the system call that is being attempted by
the target. (As described in NOTES, the file descriptor can
also be monitored with [select(2)](../man2/select.2.html), [poll(2)](../man2/poll.2.html), or [epoll(7)](../man7/epoll.7.html).)
(6) The _seccompnotif_ structure returned by the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV** operation includes the same
information (a _seccompdata_ structure) that was passed to the
seccomp filter. This information allows the supervisor to
discover the system call number and the arguments for the
target's system call. In addition, the notification event
contains the ID of the thread that triggered the notification
and a unique cookie value that is used in subsequent
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** and **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND**
operations.
The information in the notification can be used to discover
the values of pointer arguments for the target's system call.
(This is something that can't be done from within a seccomp
filter.) One way in which the supervisor can do this is to
open the corresponding _/proc/_tid_/mem_ file (see [proc(5)](../man5/proc.5.html)) and
read bytes from the location that corresponds to one of the
pointer arguments whose value is supplied in the notification
event. (The supervisor must be careful to avoid a race
condition that can occur when doing this; see the description
of the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID ioctl**(2) operation
below.) In addition, the supervisor can access other system
information that is visible in user space but which is not
accessible from a seccomp filter.
(7) Having obtained information as per the previous step, the
supervisor may then choose to perform an action in response
to the target's system call (which, as noted above, is not
executed when the seccomp filter returns the
**SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF** action value).
One example use case here relates to containers. The target
may be located inside a container where it does not have
sufficient capabilities to mount a filesystem in the
container's mount namespace. However, the supervisor may be
a more privileged process that does have sufficient
capabilities to perform the mount operation.
(8) The supervisor then sends a response to the notification.
The information in this response is used by the kernel to
construct a return value for the target's system call and
provide a value that will be assigned to the _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ variable
of the target.
The response is sent using the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND**
[ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) operation, which is used to transmit a
_seccompnotifresp_ structure to the kernel. This structure
includes a cookie value that the supervisor obtained in the
_seccompnotif_ structure returned by the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV** operation. This cookie value allows
the kernel to associate the response with the target. This
structure must include the cookie value that the supervisor
obtained in the _seccompnotif_ structure returned by the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV** operation; the cookie allows the
kernel to associate the response with the target.
(9) Once the notification has been sent, the system call in the
target thread unblocks, returning the information that was
provided by the supervisor in the notification response.
As a variation on the last two steps, the supervisor can send a
response that tells the kernel that it should execute the target
thread's system call; see the discussion of
**SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE**, below.IOCTL OPERATIONS top
The following [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) operations are supported by the seccomp
user-space notification file descriptor. For each of these
operations, the first (file descriptor) argument of [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) is
the listening file descriptor returned by a call to [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html)
with the **SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER** flag.SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV The SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV operation (available since Linux 5.0) is used to obtain a user-space notification event. If no such event is currently pending, the operation blocks until an event occurs. The third ioctl(2) argument is a pointer to a structure of the following form which contains information about the event. This structure must be zeroed out before the call.
struct seccomp_notif {
__u64 id; /* Cookie */
__u32 pid; /* TID of target thread */
__u32 flags; /* Currently unused (0) */
struct seccomp_data data; /* See seccomp(2) */
};
The fields in this structure are as follows:
_id_ This is a cookie for the notification. Each such cookie is
guaranteed to be unique for the corresponding seccomp
filter.
• The cookie can be used with the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID ioctl**(2) operation
described below.
• When returning a notification response to the kernel,
the supervisor must include the cookie value in the
_seccompnotifresp_ structure that is specified as the
argument of the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND** operation.
_pid_ This is the thread ID of the target thread that triggered
the notification event.
_flags_ This is a bit mask of flags providing further information
on the event. In the current implementation, this field is
always zero.
_data_ This is a _seccompdata_ structure containing information
about the system call that triggered the notification.
This is the same structure that is passed to the seccomp
filter. See [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html) for details of this structure.
On success, this operation returns 0; on failure, -1 is returned,
and _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is set to indicate the error. This operation can fail
with the following errors:
**EINVAL** (since Linux 5.5)
The _seccompnotif_ structure that was passed to the call
contained nonzero fields.
**ENOENT** The target thread was killed by a signal as the
notification information was being generated, or the
target's (blocked) system call was interrupted by a signal
handler.SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID The SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID operation (available since Linux 5.0) is used to check that a notification ID returned by an earlier SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV operation is still valid (i.e., that the target still exists and its system call is still blocked waiting for a response).
The third [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) argument is a pointer to the cookie (_id_)
returned by the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV** operation.
This operation is necessary to avoid race conditions that can
occur when the _pid_ returned by the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV**
operation terminates, and that process ID is reused by another
process. An example of this kind of race is the following
(1) A notification is generated on the listening file descriptor.
The returned _seccompnotif_ contains the TID of the target
thread (in the _pid_ field of the structure).
(2) The target terminates.
(3) Another thread or process is created on the system that by
chance reuses the TID that was freed when the target
terminated.
(4) The supervisor [open(2)](../man2/open.2.html)s the _/proc/_tid_/mem_ file for the TID
obtained in step 1, with the intention of (say) inspecting
the memory location(s) that containing the argument(s) of the
system call that triggered the notification in step 1.
In the above scenario, the risk is that the supervisor may try to
access the memory of a process other than the target. This race
can be avoided by following the call to [open(2)](../man2/open.2.html) with a
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** operation to verify that the process
that generated the notification is still alive. (Note that if the
target terminates after the latter step, a subsequent [read(2)](../man2/read.2.html) from
the file descriptor may return 0, indicating end of file.)
See NOTES for a discussion of other cases where
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** checks must be performed.
On success (i.e., the notification ID is still valid), this
operation returns 0. On failure (i.e., the notification ID is no
longer valid), -1 is returned, and _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is set to **ENOENT**.SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND The SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND operation (available since Linux 5.0) is used to send a notification response back to the kernel. The third ioctl(2) argument of this structure is a pointer to a structure of the following form:
struct seccomp_notif_resp {
__u64 id; /* Cookie value */
__s64 val; /* Success return value */
__s32 error; /* 0 (success) or negative error number */
__u32 flags; /* See below */
};
The fields of this structure are as follows:
_id_ This is the cookie value that was obtained using the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV** operation. This cookie value
allows the kernel to correctly associate this response with
the system call that triggered the user-space notification.
_val_ This is the value that will be used for a spoofed success
return for the target's system call; see below.
_error_ This is the value that will be used as the error number
(_[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_) for a spoofed error return for the target's system
call; see below.
_flags_ This is a bit mask that includes zero or more of the
following flags:
**SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE** (since Linux 5.5)
Tell the kernel to execute the target's system call.
Two kinds of response are possible:
• A response to the kernel telling it to execute the target's
system call. In this case, the _flags_ field includes
**SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE** and the _error_ and _val_ fields
must be zero.
This kind of response can be useful in cases where the
supervisor needs to do deeper analysis of the target's system
call than is possible from a seccomp filter (e.g., examining
the values of pointer arguments), and, having decided that the
system call does not require emulation by the supervisor, the
supervisor wants the system call to be executed normally in the
target.
The **SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE** flag should be used with
caution; see NOTES.
• A spoofed return value for the target's system call. In this
case, the kernel does not execute the target's system call,
instead causing the system call to return a spoofed value as
specified by fields of the _seccompnotifresp_ structure. The
supervisor should set the fields of this structure as follows:
• _flags_ does not contain **SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE**.
• _error_ is set either to 0 for a spoofed "success" return or
to a negative error number for a spoofed "failure" return.
In the former case, the kernel causes the target's system
call to return the value specified in the _val_ field. In the
latter case, the kernel causes the target's system call to
return -1, and _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is assigned the negated _error_ value.
• _val_ is set to a value that will be used as the return value
for a spoofed "success" return for the target's system call.
The value in this field is ignored if the _error_ field
contains a nonzero value.
On success, this operation returns 0; on failure, -1 is returned,
and _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is set to indicate the error. This operation can fail
with the following errors:
**EINPROGRESS**
A response to this notification has already been sent.
**EINVAL** An invalid value was specified in the _flags field._
**EINVAL** The _flags_ field contained **SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE**,
and the _error_ or _val_ field was not zero.
**ENOENT** The blocked system call in the target has been interrupted
by a signal handler or the target has terminated.SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD The SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD operation (available since Linux 5.9) allows the supervisor to install a file descriptor into the target's file descriptor table. Much like the use of SCM_RIGHTS messages described in unix(7), this operation is semantically equivalent to duplicating a file descriptor from the supervisor's file descriptor table into the target's file descriptor table.
The **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD** operation permits the supervisor to
emulate a target system call (such as [socket(2)](../man2/socket.2.html) or [openat(2)](../man2/openat.2.html)) that
generates a file descriptor. The supervisor can perform the
system call that generates the file descriptor (and associated
open file description) and then use this operation to allocate a
file descriptor that refers to the same open file description in
the target. (For an explanation of open file descriptions, see
[open(2)](../man2/open.2.html).)
Once this operation has been performed, the supervisor can close
its copy of the file descriptor.
In the target, the received file descriptor is subject to the same
Linux Security Module (LSM) checks as are applied to a file
descriptor that is received in an **SCM_RIGHTS** ancillary message.
If the file descriptor refers to a socket, it inherits the cgroup
version 1 network controller settings (_classid_ and _netprioidx_) of
the target.
The third [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) argument is a pointer to a structure of the
following form:
struct seccomp_notif_addfd {
__u64 id; /* Cookie value */
__u32 flags; /* Flags */
__u32 srcfd; /* Local file descriptor number */
__u32 newfd; /* 0 or desired file descriptor
number in target */
__u32 newfd_flags; /* Flags to set on target file
descriptor */
};
The fields in this structure are as follows:
_id_ This field should be set to the notification ID (cookie
value) that was obtained via **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV**.
_flags_ This field is a bit mask of flags that modify the behavior
of the operation. Currently, only one flag is supported:
**SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SETFD**
When allocating the file descriptor in the target,
use the file descriptor number specified in the
_newfd_ field.
**SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND** (since Linux 5.14)
Perform the equivalent of **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD**
plus **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND** as an atomic
operation. On successful invocation, the target
process's _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ will be 0 and the return value will
be the file descriptor number that was allocated in
the target. If allocating the file descriptor in
the target fails, the target's system call continues
to be blocked until a successful response is sent.
_srcfd_ This field should be set to the number of the file
descriptor in the supervisor that is to be duplicated.
_newfd_ This field determines which file descriptor number is
allocated in the target. If the **SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SETFD**
flag is set, then this field specifies which file
descriptor number should be allocated. If this file
descriptor number is already open in the target, it is
atomically closed and reused. If the descriptor
duplication fails due to an LSM check, or if _srcfd_ is not a
valid file descriptor, the file descriptor _newfd_ will not
be closed in the target process.
If the **SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SETFD** flag it not set, then this
field must be 0, and the kernel allocates the lowest unused
file descriptor number in the target.
_newfdflags_
This field is a bit mask specifying flags that should be
set on the file descriptor that is received in the target
process. Currently, only the following flag is
implemented:
**O_CLOEXEC**
Set the close-on-exec flag on the received file
descriptor.
On success, this [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) call returns the number of the file
descriptor that was allocated in the target. Assuming that the
emulated system call is one that returns a file descriptor as its
function result (e.g., [socket(2)](../man2/socket.2.html)), this value can be used as the
return value (_resp.val_) that is supplied in the response that is
subsequently sent with the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND** operation.
On error, -1 is returned and _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_ is set to indicate the error.
This operation can fail with the following errors:
**EBADF** Allocating the file descriptor in the target would cause
the target's **RLIMIT_NOFILE** limit to be exceeded (see
[getrlimit(2)](../man2/getrlimit.2.html)).
**EBUSY** If the flag **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND** is used, this means
the operation can't proceed until other
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD** requests are processed.
**EINPROGRESS**
The user-space notification specified in the _id_ field
exists but has not yet been fetched (by a
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV**) or has already been responded to
(by a **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND**).
**EINVAL** An invalid flag was specified in the _flags_ or _newfdflags_
field, or the _newfd_ field is nonzero and the
**SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SETFD** flag was not specified in the
_flags_ field.
**EMFILE** The file descriptor number specified in _newfd_ exceeds the
limit specified in _/proc/sys/fs/nropen_.
**ENOENT** The blocked system call in the target has been interrupted
by a signal handler or the target has terminated.
Here is some sample code (with error handling omitted) that uses
the **SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SETFD** operation (here, to emulate a call to
[openat(2)](../man2/openat.2.html)):
int fd, removeFd;
fd = openat(req->data.args[0], path, req->data.args[2],
req->data.args[3]);
struct seccomp_notif_addfd addfd;
addfd.id = req->id; /* Cookie from SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV */
addfd.srcfd = fd;
addfd.newfd = 0;
addfd.flags = 0;
addfd.newfd_flags = O_CLOEXEC;
targetFd = ioctl(notifyFd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD, &addfd);
close(fd); /* No longer needed in supervisor */
struct seccomp_notif_resp *resp;
/* Code to allocate 'resp' omitted */
resp->id = req->id;
resp->error = 0; /* "Success" */
resp->val = targetFd;
resp->flags = 0;
ioctl(notifyFd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND, resp);NOTES top
One example use case for the user-space notification mechanism is
to allow a container manager (a process which is typically running
with more privilege than the processes inside the container) to
mount block devices or create device nodes for the container. The
mount use case provides an example of where the
**SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE ioctl**(2) operation is useful.
Upon receiving a notification for the [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html) system call, the
container manager (the "supervisor") can distinguish a request to
mount a block filesystem (which would not be possible for a
"target" process inside the container) and mount that file system.
If, on the other hand, the container manager detects that the
operation could be performed by the process inside the container
(e.g., a mount of a [tmpfs(5)](../man5/tmpfs.5.html) filesystem), it can notify the kernel
that the target process's [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html) system call can continue.select()/poll()/epoll semantics The file descriptor returned when seccomp(2) is employed with the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER flag can be monitored using poll(2), epoll(7), and select(2). These interfaces indicate that the file descriptor is ready as follows:
• When a notification is pending, these interfaces indicate that
the file descriptor is readable. Following such an indication,
a subsequent **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV ioctl**(2) will not block,
returning either information about a notification or else
failing with the error **EINTR** if the target has been killed by a
signal or its system call has been interrupted by a signal
handler.
• After the notification has been received (i.e., by the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV ioctl**(2) operation), these interfaces
indicate that the file descriptor is writable, meaning that a
notification response can be sent using the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND ioctl**(2) operation.
• After the last thread using the filter has terminated and been
reaped using [waitpid(2)](../man2/waitpid.2.html) (or similar), the file descriptor
indicates an end-of-file condition (readable in [select(2)](../man2/select.2.html);
**POLLHUP**/**EPOLLHUP** in [poll(2)](../man2/poll.2.html)/ [epoll_wait(2)](../man2/epoll%5Fwait.2.html)).Design goals; use of SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE The intent of the user-space notification feature is to allow system calls to be performed on behalf of the target. The target's system call should either be handled by the supervisor or allowed to continue normally in the kernel (where standard security policies will be applied).
**Note well**: this mechanism must not be used to make security policy
decisions about the system call, which would be inherently race-
prone for reasons described next.
The **SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE** flag must be used with
caution. If set by the supervisor, the target's system call will
continue. However, there is a time-of-check, time-of-use race
here, since an attacker could exploit the interval of time where
the target is blocked waiting on the "continue" response to do
things such as rewriting the system call arguments.
Note furthermore that a user-space notifier can be bypassed if the
existing filters allow the use of [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html) or [prctl(2)](../man2/prctl.2.html) to
install a filter that returns an action value with a higher
precedence than **SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF** (see [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html)).
It should thus be absolutely clear that the seccomp user-space
notification mechanism **can not** be used to implement a security
policy! It should only ever be used in scenarios where a more
privileged process supervises the system calls of a lesser
privileged target to get around kernel-enforced security
restrictions when the supervisor deems this safe. In other words,
in order to continue a system call, the supervisor should be sure
that another security mechanism or the kernel itself will
sufficiently block the system call if its arguments are rewritten
to something unsafe.[1mCaveats regarding the use of _/proc/_tid_/mem_ The discussion above noted the need to use the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID ioctl**(2) when opening the _/proc/_tid_/mem_ file of the target to avoid the possibility of accessing the memory of the wrong process in the event that the target terminates and its ID is recycled by another (unrelated) thread. However, the use of this ioctl(2) operation is also necessary in other situations, as explained in the following paragraphs.
Consider the following scenario, where the supervisor tries to
read the pathname argument of a target's blocked [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html) system
call:
(1) From one of its functions (_func()_), the target calls
[mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html), which triggers a user-space notification and causes
the target to block.
(2) The supervisor receives the notification, opens
_/proc/_tid_/mem_, and (successfully) performs the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** check.
(3) The target receives a signal, which causes the [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html) to
abort.
(4) The signal handler executes in the target, and returns.
(5) Upon return from the handler, the execution of _func()_
resumes, and it returns (and perhaps other functions are
called, overwriting the memory that had been used for the
stack frame of _func()_).
(6) Using the address provided in the notification information,
the supervisor reads from the target's memory location that
used to contain the pathname.
(7) The supervisor now calls [mount(2)](../man2/mount.2.html) with some arbitrary bytes
obtained in the previous step.
The conclusion from the above scenario is this: since the target's
blocked system call may be interrupted by a signal handler, the
supervisor must be written to expect that the target may abandon
its system call at **any** time; in such an event, any information
that the supervisor obtained from the target's memory must be
considered invalid.
To prevent such scenarios, every read from the target's memory
must be separated from use of the bytes so obtained by a
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** check. In the above example, the
check would be placed between the two final steps. An example of
such a check is shown in EXAMPLES.
Following on from the above, it should be clear that a write by
the supervisor into the target's memory can **never** be considered
safe.Caveats regarding blocking system calls Suppose that the target performs a blocking system call (e.g., accept(2)) that the supervisor should handle. The supervisor might then in turn execute the same blocking system call.
In this scenario, it is important to note that if the target's
system call is now interrupted by a signal, the supervisor is _not_
informed of this. If the supervisor does not take suitable steps
to actively discover that the target's system call has been
canceled, various difficulties can occur. Taking the example of
[accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html), the supervisor might remain blocked in its [accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html)
holding a port number that the target (which, after the
interruption by the signal handler, perhaps closed its listening
socket) might expect to be able to reuse in a [bind(2)](../man2/bind.2.html) call.
Therefore, when the supervisor wishes to emulate a blocking system
call, it must do so in such a way that it gets informed if the
target's system call is interrupted by a signal handler. For
example, if the supervisor itself executes the same blocking
system call, then it could employ a separate thread that uses the
**SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID** operation to check if the target is
still blocked in its system call. Alternatively, in the [accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html)
example, the supervisor might use [poll(2)](../man2/poll.2.html) to monitor both the
notification file descriptor (so as to discover when the target's
[accept(2)](../man2/accept.2.html) call has been interrupted) and the listening file
descriptor (so as to know when a connection is available).
If the target's system call is interrupted, the supervisor must
take care to release resources (e.g., file descriptors) that it
acquired on behalf of the target.Interaction with SA_RESTART signal handlers Consider the following scenario:
(1) The target process has used [sigaction(2)](../man2/sigaction.2.html) to install a signal
handler with the **SA_RESTART** flag.
(2) The target has made a system call that triggered a seccomp
user-space notification and the target is currently blocked
until the supervisor sends a notification response.
(3) A signal is delivered to the target and the signal handler is
executed.
(4) When (if) the supervisor attempts to send a notification
response, the **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND ioctl**(2)) operation
will fail with the **ENOENT** error.
In this scenario, the kernel will restart the target's system
call. Consequently, the supervisor will receive another user-
space notification. Thus, depending on how many times the blocked
system call is interrupted by a signal handler, the supervisor may
receive multiple notifications for the same instance of a system
call in the target.
One oddity is that system call restarting as described in this
scenario will occur even for the blocking system calls listed in
[signal(7)](../man7/signal.7.html) that would **never** normally be restarted by the **SA_RESTART**
flag.
Furthermore, if the supervisor response is a file descriptor added
with **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD**, then the flag
**SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_SEND** can be used to atomically add the file
descriptor and return that value, making sure no file descriptors
are inadvertently leaked into the target.BUGS top
If a **SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV ioctl**(2) operation is performed
after the target terminates, then the [ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html) call simply blocks
(rather than returning an error to indicate that the target no
longer exists).EXAMPLES top
The (somewhat contrived) program shown below demonstrates the use
of the interfaces described in this page. The program creates a
child process that serves as the "target" process. The child
process installs a seccomp filter that returns the
**SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF** action value if a call is made to [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html).
The child process then calls [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) once for each of the
supplied command-line arguments, and reports the result returned
by the call. After processing all arguments, the child process
terminates.
The parent process acts as the supervisor, listening for the
notifications that are generated when the target process calls
[mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html). When such a notification occurs, the supervisor
examines the memory of the target process (using _/proc/_pid_/mem_) to
discover the pathname argument that was supplied to the [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html)
call, and performs one of the following actions:
• If the pathname begins with the prefix "/tmp/", then the
supervisor attempts to create the specified directory, and then
spoofs a return for the target process based on the return
value of the supervisor's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call. In the event that
that call succeeds, the spoofed success return value is the
length of the pathname.
• If the pathname begins with "./" (i.e., it is a relative
pathname), the supervisor sends a
**SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE** response to the kernel to say
that the kernel should execute the target process's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html)
call.
• If the pathname begins with some other prefix, the supervisor
spoofs an error return for the target process, so that the
target process's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call appears to fail with the error
**EOPNOTSUPP** ("Operation not supported"). Additionally, if the
specified pathname is exactly "/bye", then the supervisor
terminates.
This program can be used to demonstrate various aspects of the
behavior of the seccomp user-space notification mechanism. To
help aid such demonstrations, the program logs various messages to
show the operation of the target process (lines prefixed "T:") and
the supervisor (indented lines prefixed "S:").
In the following example, the target attempts to create the
directory _/tmp/x_. Upon receiving the notification, the supervisor
creates the directory on the target's behalf, and spoofs a success
return to be received by the target process's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call.
$ **./seccomp_unotify /tmp/x**
T: PID = 23168
T: about to mkdir("/tmp/x")
S: got notification (ID 0x17445c4a0f4e0e3c) for PID 23168
S: executing: mkdir("/tmp/x", 0700)
S: success! spoofed return = 6
S: sending response (flags = 0; val = 6; error = 0)
T: SUCCESS: mkdir(2) returned 6
T: terminating
S: target has terminated; bye
In the above output, note that the spoofed return value seen by
the target process is 6 (the length of the pathname _/tmp/x_),
whereas a normal [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call returns 0 on success.
In the next example, the target attempts to create a directory
using the relative pathname _./sub_. Since this pathname starts
with "./", the supervisor sends a **SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE**
response to the kernel, and the kernel then (successfully)
executes the target process's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call.
$ **./seccomp_unotify ./sub**
T: PID = 23204
T: about to mkdir("./sub")
S: got notification (ID 0xddb16abe25b4c12) for PID 23204
S: target can execute system call
S: sending response (flags = 0x1; val = 0; error = 0)
T: SUCCESS: mkdir(2) returned 0
T: terminating
S: target has terminated; bye
If the target process attempts to create a directory with a
pathname that doesn't start with "." and doesn't begin with the
prefix "/tmp/", then the supervisor spoofs an error return
(**EOPNOTSUPP**, "Operation not supported") for the target's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html)
call (which is not executed):
$ **./seccomp_unotify /xxx**
T: PID = 23178
T: about to mkdir("/xxx")
S: got notification (ID 0xe7dc095d1c524e80) for PID 23178
S: spoofing error response (Operation not supported)
S: sending response (flags = 0; val = 0; error = -95)
T: ERROR: mkdir(2): Operation not supported
T: terminating
S: target has terminated; bye
In the next example, the target process attempts to create a
directory with the pathname **/tmp/nosuchdir/b**. Upon receiving the
notification, the supervisor attempts to create that directory,
but the [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call fails because the directory **/tmp/nosuchdir**
does not exist. Consequently, the supervisor spoofs an error
return that passes the error that it received back to the target
process's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) call.
$ **./seccomp_unotify /tmp/nosuchdir/b**
T: PID = 23199
T: about to mkdir("/tmp/nosuchdir/b")
S: got notification (ID 0x8744454293506046) for PID 23199
S: executing: mkdir("/tmp/nosuchdir/b", 0700)
S: failure! (errno = 2; No such file or directory)
S: sending response (flags = 0; val = 0; error = -2)
T: ERROR: mkdir(2): No such file or directory
T: terminating
S: target has terminated; bye
If the supervisor receives a notification and sees that the
argument of the target's [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) is the string "/bye", then (as
well as spoofing an **EOPNOTSUPP** error), the supervisor terminates.
If the target process subsequently executes another [mkdir(2)](../man2/mkdir.2.html) that
triggers its seccomp filter to return the **SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF**
action value, then the kernel causes the target process's system
call to fail with the error **ENOSYS** ("Function not implemented").
This is demonstrated by the following example:
$ **./seccomp_unotify /bye /tmp/y**
T: PID = 23185
T: about to mkdir("/bye")
S: got notification (ID 0xa81236b1d2f7b0f4) for PID 23185
S: spoofing error response (Operation not supported)
S: sending response (flags = 0; val = 0; error = -95)
S: terminating **********
T: ERROR: mkdir(2): Operation not supported
T: about to mkdir("/tmp/y")
T: ERROR: mkdir(2): Function not implemented
T: terminatingProgram source #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <err.h> #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <limits.h> #include <linux/audit.h> #include <linux/filter.h> #include <linux/seccomp.h> #include <signal.h> #include <stdbool.h> #include <stddef.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/un.h> #include <unistd.h>
#define ARRAY_SIZE(arr) (sizeof(arr) / sizeof((arr)[0]))
/* Send the file descriptor 'fd' over the connected UNIX domain socket
'sockfd'. Returns 0 on success, or -1 on error. */
static int
sendfd(int sockfd, int fd)
{
int data;
struct iovec iov;
struct msghdr msgh;
struct cmsghdr *cmsgp;
/* Allocate a char array of suitable size to hold the ancillary data.
However, since this buffer is in reality a 'struct cmsghdr', use a
union to ensure that it is suitably aligned. */
union {
char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
/* Space large enough to hold an 'int' */
struct cmsghdr align;
} controlMsg;
/* The 'msg_name' field can be used to specify the address of the
destination socket when sending a datagram. However, we do not
need to use this field because 'sockfd' is a connected socket. */
msgh.msg_name = NULL;
msgh.msg_namelen = 0;
/* On Linux, we must transmit at least one byte of real data in
order to send ancillary data. We transmit an arbitrary integer
whose value is ignored by recvfd(). */
msgh.msg_iov = &iov;
msgh.msg_iovlen = 1;
iov.iov_base = &data;
iov.iov_len = sizeof(int);
data = 12345;
/* Set 'msghdr' fields that describe ancillary data */
msgh.msg_control = controlMsg.buf;
msgh.msg_controllen = sizeof(controlMsg.buf);
/* Set up ancillary data describing file descriptor to send */
cmsgp = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msgh);
cmsgp->cmsg_level = SOL_SOCKET;
cmsgp->cmsg_type = SCM_RIGHTS;
cmsgp->cmsg_len = CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int));
memcpy(CMSG_DATA(cmsgp), &fd, sizeof(int));
/* Send real plus ancillary data */
if (sendmsg(sockfd, &msgh, 0) == -1)
return -1;
return 0;
}
/* Receive a file descriptor on a connected UNIX domain socket. Returns
the received file descriptor on success, or -1 on error. */
static int
recvfd(int sockfd)
{
int data, fd;
ssize_t nr;
struct iovec iov;
struct msghdr msgh;
/* Allocate a char buffer for the ancillary data. See the comments
in sendfd() */
union {
char buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
struct cmsghdr align;
} controlMsg;
struct cmsghdr *cmsgp;
/* The 'msg_name' field can be used to obtain the address of the
sending socket. However, we do not need this information. */
msgh.msg_name = NULL;
msgh.msg_namelen = 0;
/* Specify buffer for receiving real data */
msgh.msg_iov = &iov;
msgh.msg_iovlen = 1;
iov.iov_base = &data; /* Real data is an 'int' */
iov.iov_len = sizeof(int);
/* Set 'msghdr' fields that describe ancillary data */
msgh.msg_control = controlMsg.buf;
msgh.msg_controllen = sizeof(controlMsg.buf);
/* Receive real plus ancillary data; real data is ignored */
nr = recvmsg(sockfd, &msgh, 0);
if (nr == -1)
return -1;
cmsgp = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msgh);
/* Check the validity of the 'cmsghdr' */
if (cmsgp == NULL
|| cmsgp->cmsg_len != CMSG_LEN(sizeof(int))
|| cmsgp->cmsg_level != SOL_SOCKET
|| cmsgp->cmsg_type != SCM_RIGHTS)
{
errno = EINVAL;
return -1;
}
/* Return the received file descriptor to our caller */
memcpy(&fd, CMSG_DATA(cmsgp), sizeof(int));
return fd;
}
static void
sigchldHandler(int sig)
{
char msg[] = "\tS: target has terminated; bye\n";
write(STDOUT_FILENO, msg, sizeof(msg) - 1);
_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
static int
seccomp(unsigned int operation, unsigned int flags, void *args)
{
return syscall(SYS_seccomp, operation, flags, args);
}
/* The following is the x86-64-specific BPF boilerplate code for checking
that the BPF program is running on the right architecture + ABI. At
completion of these instructions, the accumulator contains the system
call number. */
/* For the x32 ABI, all system call numbers have bit 30 set */
#define X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000
#define X86_64_CHECK_ARCH_AND_LOAD_SYSCALL_NR \
BPF_STMT(BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_ABS, \
(offsetof(struct seccomp_data, arch))), \
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, AUDIT_ARCH_X86_64, 0, 2), \
BPF_STMT(BPF_LD | BPF_W | BPF_ABS, \
(offsetof(struct seccomp_data, nr))), \
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JGE | BPF_K, X32_SYSCALL_BIT, 0, 1), \
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS)
/* installNotifyFilter() installs a seccomp filter that generates
user-space notifications (SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF) when the process
calls mkdir(2); the filter allows all other system calls.
The function return value is a file descriptor from which the
user-space notifications can be fetched. */
static int
installNotifyFilter(void)
{
int notifyFd;
struct sock_filter filter[] = {
X86_64_CHECK_ARCH_AND_LOAD_SYSCALL_NR,
/* mkdir() triggers notification to user-space supervisor */
BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP | BPF_JEQ | BPF_K, SYS_mkdir, 0, 1),
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET + BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF),
/* Every other system call is allowed */
BPF_STMT(BPF_RET | BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW),
};
struct sock_fprog prog = {
.len = ARRAY_SIZE(filter),
.filter = filter,
};
/* Install the filter with the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER flag;
as a result, seccomp() returns a notification file descriptor. */
notifyFd = seccomp(SECCOMP_SET_MODE_FILTER,
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER, &prog);
if (notifyFd == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "seccomp-install-notify-filter");
return notifyFd;
}
/* Close a pair of sockets created by socketpair() */
static void
closeSocketPair(int sockPair[2])
{
if (close(sockPair[0]) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "closeSocketPair-close-0");
if (close(sockPair[1]) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "closeSocketPair-close-1");
}
/* Implementation of the target process; create a child process that:
(1) installs a seccomp filter with the
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER flag;
(2) writes the seccomp notification file descriptor returned from
the previous step onto the UNIX domain socket, 'sockPair[0]';
(3) calls mkdir(2) for each element of 'argv'.
The function return value in the parent is the PID of the child
process; the child does not return from this function. */
static pid_t
targetProcess(int sockPair[2], char *argv[])
{
int notifyFd, s;
pid_t targetPid;
targetPid = fork();
if (targetPid == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "fork");
if (targetPid > 0) /* In parent, return PID of child */
return targetPid;
/* Child falls through to here */
printf("T: PID = %ld\n", (long) getpid());
/* Install seccomp filter(s) */
if (prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0))
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "prctl");
notifyFd = installNotifyFilter();
/* Pass the notification file descriptor to the tracing process over
a UNIX domain socket */
if (sendfd(sockPair[0], notifyFd) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "sendfd");
/* Notification and socket FDs are no longer needed in target */
if (close(notifyFd) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "close-target-notify-fd");
closeSocketPair(sockPair);
/* Perform a mkdir() call for each of the command-line arguments */
for (char **ap = argv; *ap != NULL; ap++) {
printf("\nT: about to mkdir(\"%s\")\n", *ap);
s = mkdir(*ap, 0700);
if (s == -1)
perror("T: ERROR: mkdir(2)");
else
printf("T: SUCCESS: mkdir(2) returned %d\n", s);
}
printf("\nT: terminating\n");
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
/* Check that the notification ID provided by a SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV
operation is still valid. It will no longer be valid if the target
process has terminated or is no longer blocked in the system call that
generated the notification (because it was interrupted by a signal).
This operation can be used when doing such things as accessing
/proc/PID files in the target process in order to avoid TOCTOU race
conditions where the PID that is returned by SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV
terminates and is reused by another process. */
static bool
cookieIsValid(int notifyFd, uint64_t id)
{
return ioctl(notifyFd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID, &id) == 0;
}
/* Access the memory of the target process in order to fetch the
pathname referred to by the system call argument 'argNum' in
'req->data.args[]'. The pathname is returned in 'path',
a buffer of 'size' bytes allocated by the caller.
Returns true if the pathname is successfully fetched, and false
otherwise. For possible causes of failure, see the comments below. */
static bool
getTargetPathname(struct seccomp_notif *req, int notifyFd,
int argNum, char *path, size_t size)
{
int procMemFd;
char procMemPath[PATH_MAX];
ssize_t nread;
snprintf(procMemPath, sizeof(procMemPath), "/proc/%d/mem", req->pid);
procMemFd = open(procMemPath, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
if (procMemFd == -1)
return false;
/* Check that the process whose info we are accessing is still alive
and blocked in the system call that caused the notification.
If the SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID operation (performed in
cookieIsValid()) succeeded, we know that the /proc/PID/mem file
descriptor that we opened corresponded to the process for which we
received a notification. If that process subsequently terminates,
then read() on that file descriptor will return 0 (EOF). */
if (!cookieIsValid(notifyFd, req->id)) {
close(procMemFd);
return false;
}
/* Read bytes at the location containing the pathname argument */
nread = pread(procMemFd, path, size, req->data.args[argNum]);
close(procMemFd);
if (nread <= 0)
return false;
/* Once again check that the notification ID is still valid. The
case we are particularly concerned about here is that just
before we fetched the pathname, the target's blocked system
call was interrupted by a signal handler, and after the handler
returned, the target carried on execution (past the interrupted
system call). In that case, we have no guarantees about what we
are reading, since the target's memory may have been arbitrarily
changed by subsequent operations. */
if (!cookieIsValid(notifyFd, req->id)) {
perror("\tS: notification ID check failed!!!");
return false;
}
/* Even if the target's system call was not interrupted by a signal,
we have no guarantees about what was in the memory of the target
process. (The memory may have been modified by another thread, or
even by an external attacking process.) We therefore treat the
buffer returned by pread() as untrusted input. The buffer should
contain a terminating null byte; if not, then we will trigger an
error for the target process. */
if (strnlen(path, nread) < nread)
return true;
return false;
}
/* Allocate buffers for the seccomp user-space notification request and
response structures. It is the caller's responsibility to free the
buffers returned via 'req' and 'resp'. */
static void
allocSeccompNotifBuffers(struct seccomp_notif **req,
struct seccomp_notif_resp **resp,
struct seccomp_notif_sizes *sizes)
{
size_t resp_size;
/* Discover the sizes of the structures that are used to receive
notifications and send notification responses, and allocate
buffers of those sizes. */
if (seccomp(SECCOMP_GET_NOTIF_SIZES, 0, sizes) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "seccomp-SECCOMP_GET_NOTIF_SIZES");
*req = malloc(sizes->seccomp_notif);
if (*req == NULL)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "malloc-seccomp_notif");
/* When allocating the response buffer, we must allow for the fact
that the user-space binary may have been built with user-space
headers where 'struct seccomp_notif_resp' is bigger than the
response buffer expected by the (older) kernel. Therefore, we
allocate a buffer that is the maximum of the two sizes. This
ensures that if the supervisor places bytes into the response
structure that are past the response size that the kernel expects,
then the supervisor is not touching an invalid memory location. */
resp_size = sizes->seccomp_notif_resp;
if (sizeof(struct seccomp_notif_resp) > resp_size)
resp_size = sizeof(struct seccomp_notif_resp);
*resp = malloc(resp_size);
if (*resp == NULL)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "malloc-seccomp_notif_resp");
}
/* Handle notifications that arrive via the SECCOMP_RET_USER_NOTIF file
descriptor, 'notifyFd'. */
static void
handleNotifications(int notifyFd)
{
bool pathOK;
char path[PATH_MAX];
struct seccomp_notif *req;
struct seccomp_notif_resp *resp;
struct seccomp_notif_sizes sizes;
allocSeccompNotifBuffers(&req, &resp, &sizes);
/* Loop handling notifications */
for (;;) {
/* Wait for next notification, returning info in '*req' */
memset(req, 0, sizes.seccomp_notif);
if (ioctl(notifyFd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV, req) == -1) {
if (errno == EINTR)
continue;
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "\tS: ioctl-SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV");
}
printf("\tS: got notification (ID %#llx) for PID %d\n",
req->id, req->pid);
/* The only system call that can generate a notification event
is mkdir(2). Nevertheless, we check that the notified system
call is indeed mkdir() as kind of future-proofing of this
code in case the seccomp filter is later modified to
generate notifications for other system calls. */
if (req->data.nr != SYS_mkdir) {
printf("\tS: notification contained unexpected "
"system call number; bye!!!\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
pathOK = getTargetPathname(req, notifyFd, 0, path, sizeof(path));
/* Prepopulate some fields of the response */
resp->id = req->id; /* Response includes notification ID */
resp->flags = 0;
resp->val = 0;
/* If getTargetPathname() failed, trigger an EINVAL error
response (sending this response may yield an error if the
failure occurred because the notification ID was no longer
valid); if the directory is in /tmp, then create it on behalf
of the supervisor; if the pathname starts with '.', tell the
kernel to let the target process execute the mkdir();
otherwise, give an error for a directory pathname in any other
location. */
if (!pathOK) {
resp->error = -EINVAL;
printf("\tS: spoofing error for invalid pathname (%s)\n",
strerror(-resp->error));
} else if (strncmp(path, "/tmp/", strlen("/tmp/")) == 0) {
printf("\tS: executing: mkdir(\"%s\", %#llo)\n",
path, req->data.args[1]);
if (mkdir(path, req->data.args[1]) == 0) {
resp->error = 0; /* "Success" */
resp->val = strlen(path); /* Used as return value of
mkdir() in target */
printf("\tS: success! spoofed return = %lld\n",
resp->val);
} else {
/* If mkdir() failed in the supervisor, pass the error
back to the target */
resp->error = -errno;
printf("\tS: failure! (errno = %d; %s)\n", errno,
strerror(errno));
}
} else if (strncmp(path, "./", strlen("./")) == 0) {
resp->error = resp->val = 0;
resp->flags = SECCOMP_USER_NOTIF_FLAG_CONTINUE;
printf("\tS: target can execute system call\n");
} else {
resp->error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
printf("\tS: spoofing error response (%s)\n",
strerror(-resp->error));
}
/* Send a response to the notification */
printf("\tS: sending response "
"(flags = %#x; val = %lld; error = %d)\n",
resp->flags, resp->val, resp->error);
if (ioctl(notifyFd, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND, resp) == -1) {
if (errno == ENOENT)
printf("\tS: response failed with ENOENT; "
"perhaps target process's syscall was "
"interrupted by a signal?\n");
else
perror("ioctl-SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND");
}
/* If the pathname is just "/bye", then the supervisor breaks out
of the loop and terminates. This allows us to see what happens
if the target process makes further calls to mkdir(2). */
if (strcmp(path, "/bye") == 0)
break;
}
free(req);
free(resp);
printf("\tS: terminating **********\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Implementation of the supervisor process:
(1) obtains the notification file descriptor from 'sockPair[1]'
(2) handles notifications that arrive on that file descriptor. */
static void
supervisor(int sockPair[2])
{
int notifyFd;
notifyFd = recvfd(sockPair[1]);
if (notifyFd == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "recvfd");
closeSocketPair(sockPair); /* We no longer need the socket pair */
handleNotifications(notifyFd);
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int sockPair[2];
struct sigaction sa;
setbuf(stdout, NULL);
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "At least one pathname argument is required\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Create a UNIX domain socket that is used to pass the seccomp
notification file descriptor from the target process to the
supervisor process. */
if (socketpair(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, sockPair) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "socketpair");
/* Create a child process--the "target"--that installs seccomp
filtering. The target process writes the seccomp notification
file descriptor onto 'sockPair[0]' and then calls mkdir(2) for
each directory in the command-line arguments. */
(void) targetProcess(sockPair, &argv[optind]);
/* Catch SIGCHLD when the target terminates, so that the
supervisor can also terminate. */
sa.sa_handler = sigchldHandler;
sa.sa_flags = 0;
sigemptyset(&sa.sa_mask);
if (sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, NULL) == -1)
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "sigaction");
supervisor(sockPair);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}SEE ALSO top
[ioctl(2)](../man2/ioctl.2.html), [pidfd_getfd(2)](../man2/pidfd%5Fgetfd.2.html), [pidfd_open(2)](../man2/pidfd%5Fopen.2.html), [seccomp(2)](../man2/seccomp.2.html)
A further example program can be found in the kernel source file
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