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28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf

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From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 14:17:53 +0100

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On Debian Testing with libseccomp 2.5.1-1, 'make test/emacs-tests' fails
with:

  Test emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout backtrace:
    signal(ert-test-failed (((should (eql status 0)) :form (eql "Bad sys
    ert-fail(((should (eql status 0)) :form (eql "Bad system call" 0) :v
    [...]
    normal-top-level()
  Test emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout condition:
      Info: Process output:
      (ert-test-failed
       ((should
         (eql status 0))
        :form
        (eql "Bad system call" 0)
        :value nil))
     FAILED  2/6  emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout (0.032159 sec)

Investigating a bit further, from the source tree root:

0. cd src
1. gdb ./emacs
2. set logging on
3. b pdumper.c:5263
4. r -Q -batch -seccomp ../test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf
5. s RET RET RET
6. q

Here's the log:

[gdb.txt (text/plain, inline)]

Breakpoint 3 at 0x28ab53: file pdumper.c, line 5263.
Starting program: /home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs -Q -batch -seccomp ../test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".

Breakpoint 3, pdumper_load (dump_filename=0x555555ed99f0 "/home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs.pdmp")
    at pdumper.c:5263
5263	  const struct timespec start_time = current_timespec ();
current_timespec () at gettime.c:47
47	  gettime (&ts);
gettime (ts=0x7fffffffd8b0) at gettime.c:32
32	  clock_gettime (CLOCK_REALTIME, ts);
__GI___clock_gettime (clock_id=0, tp=0x7fffffffd8b0) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/clock_gettime.c:38
38	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/clock_gettime.c: No such file or directory.

Program terminated with signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.
The program no longer exists.

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Let me know if you'd like me to test anything further.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo version 1.16.0, Xaw3d scroll bars)
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Message #8 received at 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:58:57 +0200

Am So., 11. Apr. 2021 um 15:19 Uhr schrieb Basil L. Contovounesios
<contovob <at> tcd.ie>:
>
> On Debian Testing with libseccomp 2.5.1-1, 'make test/emacs-tests' fails
> with:
>
>   Test emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout backtrace:
>     signal(ert-test-failed (((should (eql status 0)) :form (eql "Bad sys
>     ert-fail(((should (eql status 0)) :form (eql "Bad system call" 0) :v
>     [...]
>     normal-top-level()
>   Test emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout condition:
>       Info: Process output:
>       (ert-test-failed
>        ((should
>          (eql status 0))
>         :form
>         (eql "Bad system call" 0)
>         :value nil))
>      FAILED  2/6  emacs-tests/seccomp/allows-stdout (0.032159 sec)
>

Thanks for the report! Could you check which syscall exactly is
failing, e.g. using
journalctl -g SECCOMP -t audisp-syslog
(assuming that system uses systemd and seccomp audit logging is enabled).

Message #11 received at 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:13:32 +0100

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Could you check which syscall exactly is failing, e.g. using
> journalctl -g SECCOMP -t audisp-syslog
> (assuming that system uses systemd and seccomp audit logging is enabled).

After running:

  ./src/emacs -Q -batch -seccomp test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf

the last audit in 'sudo journalctl -g SECCOMP' is:

  Apr 11 18:08:56 tia audit[25251]: SECCOMP auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000
  ses=3 subj==unconfined pid=25251 comm="emacs"
  exe="/home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs" sig=31 arch=c000003e
  syscall=228 compat=0 ip=0x7fff7f1f7a7d code=0x80000000

Looking up syscall 228 online points to clock_gettime, just like in the
GDB log I attached in my previous message.

Is there something else I can check?

Thanks,

-- 
Basil

Message #14 received at 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 18:19:29 +0100

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:

> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Could you check which syscall exactly is failing, e.g. using
>> journalctl -g SECCOMP -t audisp-syslog
>> (assuming that system uses systemd and seccomp audit logging is enabled).
>
> After running:
>
>   ./src/emacs -Q -batch -seccomp test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf
>
> the last audit in 'sudo journalctl -g SECCOMP' is:
>
>   Apr 11 18:08:56 tia audit[25251]: SECCOMP auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000
>   ses=3 subj==unconfined pid=25251 comm="emacs"
>   exe="/home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs" sig=31 arch=c000003e
>   syscall=228 compat=0 ip=0x7fff7f1f7a7d code=0x80000000
>
> Looking up syscall 228 online points to clock_gettime, just like in the
> GDB log I attached in my previous message.

I don't know whether this is relevant, but 'man 2 seccomp' has the
following to say about clock_gettime:

  Caveats
      There are various subtleties to consider when applying seccomp  filters
      to a program, including the following:

      *  Some traditional system calls have user-space implementations in the
         vdso(7) on many architectures.  Notable examples include  clock_get‐
         time(2),  gettimeofday(2), and time(2).  On such architectures, sec‐
         comp filtering for these system calls will have  no  effect.   (How‐
         ever,  there  are  cases  where the vdso(7) implementations may fall
         back to invoking the true system call, in which case seccomp filters
         would see the system call.)

-- 
Basil

Message #17 received at 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:39:21 +0200

Am So., 11. Apr. 2021 um 19:13 Uhr schrieb Basil L. Contovounesios
<contovob <at> tcd.ie>:
>
> Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Could you check which syscall exactly is failing, e.g. using
> > journalctl -g SECCOMP -t audisp-syslog
> > (assuming that system uses systemd and seccomp audit logging is enabled).
>
> After running:
>
>   ./src/emacs -Q -batch -seccomp test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf
>
> the last audit in 'sudo journalctl -g SECCOMP' is:
>
>   Apr 11 18:08:56 tia audit[25251]: SECCOMP auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000
>   ses=3 subj==unconfined pid=25251 comm="emacs"
>   exe="/home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs" sig=31 arch=c000003e
>   syscall=228 compat=0 ip=0x7fff7f1f7a7d code=0x80000000
>
> Looking up syscall 228 online points to clock_gettime, just like in the
> GDB log I attached in my previous message.

Thanks for the confirmation. (Occasionally the actual syscall is
different from the C library function that invokes it.)

Message #20 received at 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
Cc: 47708 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:52:42 +0200

Am So., 11. Apr. 2021 um 19:19 Uhr schrieb Basil L. Contovounesios
<contovob <at> tcd.ie>:
>
> "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie> writes:
>
> > Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> Could you check which syscall exactly is failing, e.g. using
> >> journalctl -g SECCOMP -t audisp-syslog
> >> (assuming that system uses systemd and seccomp audit logging is enabled).
> >
> > After running:
> >
> >   ./src/emacs -Q -batch -seccomp test/src/emacs-resources/seccomp-filter.bpf
> >
> > the last audit in 'sudo journalctl -g SECCOMP' is:
> >
> >   Apr 11 18:08:56 tia audit[25251]: SECCOMP auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000
> >   ses=3 subj==unconfined pid=25251 comm="emacs"
> >   exe="/home/blc/.local/src/emacs/src/emacs" sig=31 arch=c000003e
> >   syscall=228 compat=0 ip=0x7fff7f1f7a7d code=0x80000000
> >
> > Looking up syscall 228 online points to clock_gettime, just like in the
> > GDB log I attached in my previous message.
>
> I don't know whether this is relevant, but 'man 2 seccomp' has the
> following to say about clock_gettime:
>
>   Caveats
>       There are various subtleties to consider when applying seccomp  filters
>       to a program, including the following:
>
>       *  Some traditional system calls have user-space implementations in the
>          vdso(7) on many architectures.  Notable examples include  clock_get‐
>          time(2),  gettimeofday(2), and time(2).  On such architectures, sec‐
>          comp filtering for these system calls will have  no  effect.   (How‐
>          ever,  there  are  cases  where the vdso(7) implementations may fall
>          back to invoking the true system call, in which case seccomp filters
>          would see the system call.)
>

Nice catch. I think it should be fine to allow the clock system calls.
I've now done that with commit
ea5ea09244b762008bba509d8c58bad5835fb949.

Message #25 received at 47708-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob <at> tcd.ie>
To: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 47708-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47708: 28.0.50; SIGSYS test failure with seccomp-filter.bpf
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 19:49:47 +0100

Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Am So., 11. Apr. 2021 um 19:19 Uhr schrieb Basil L. Contovounesios
> <contovob <at> tcd.ie>:
>>
>> I don't know whether this is relevant, but 'man 2 seccomp' has the
>> following to say about clock_gettime:
>>
>>   Caveats
>>       There are various subtleties to consider when applying seccomp  filters
>>       to a program, including the following:
>>
>>       *  Some traditional system calls have user-space implementations in the
>>          vdso(7) on many architectures.  Notable examples include  clock_get‐
>>          time(2),  gettimeofday(2), and time(2).  On such architectures, sec‐
>>          comp filtering for these system calls will have  no  effect.   (How‐
>>          ever,  there  are  cases  where the vdso(7) implementations may fall
>>          back to invoking the true system call, in which case seccomp filters
>>          would see the system call.)
>>
>
> Nice catch. I think it should be fine to allow the clock system calls.
> I've now done that with commit
> ea5ea09244b762008bba509d8c58bad5835fb949.

Thanks, that fixes the test failure here, so I'm closing this report.

-- 
Basil

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