Re: Detecting the availability of VSYSCALL

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 9:45 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Andy Lutomirski:
>
> > Can’t an ELF note be done with some more or less ordinary asm such
> > that any link editor will insert it correctly?
>
> We've just been over this for the CET enablement.  ELF PT_NOTE parsing
> was rejected there.

No one told me this.  Unless I missed something, the latest kernel
patches still had PT_NOTE parsing.  Can you point me at an
enlightening thread or explain what happened?

> > The problem with a personality flag is that it needs to have some kind
> > of sensible behavior for setuid programs, and getting that right in a
> > way that doesn’t scream “exploit me” while preserving useful
> > compatibility may be tricky.
>
> Are restrictive personality flags still a problem with user namespaces?
> I think it would be fine to restrict this one to CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

We could possibly get away with this, but now we're introducing a
whole new mechanism.  I'd rather just add proper per-namespace
sysctls, but this is a pretty big hammer.




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