Re: BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures

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Hi,

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 23:24, Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> SARA looks interesting. What is missing is a prctl() to enable all W^X
> protections irrevocably for the current process, then systemd could
> enable it for services with MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes.

SARA actually has a procattr[0] interface to do just that.
There is also a library[1] to help using it.

> I didn't also see specific measures against memfd_create() or file
> system W&X, but perhaps those can be added later.

You are right, there are no measures against those vectors.
It would be interesting to add them, though.

> Maybe pkey_mprotect()
> is not handled either unless it uses the same LSM hook as mprotect().

IIRC mprotect is implemented more or less as a pkey_mprotect with -1 as pkey.
The same LSM hook should cover both.

Salvatore

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1562410493-8661-10-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@xxxxxxxxx/
[1] https://github.com/smeso/libsara



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