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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 00:14:21 +0100
From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: "musl@...ts.openwall.com" <musl@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Using direct socket syscalls on x86_32 where available?
On 29 July 2015 at 19:32, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Justin Cormack
> <justin@...cialbusservice.com> wrote:
>> On 28 July 2015 at 08:44, Alexander Larsson <alexander.larsson@...il.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One way to implement it would be to favor the new syscalls but to set some
>>>> variable the first time one of them returns ENOSYS. Once that happens,
>>>> either all of them could fall back to socketcall or just that one syscall
>>>> could.
>>>>
>>>> Or you could just avoid implementing it and see if anyone complains. It's
>>>> plausible that xdg-app might start requiring the new syscalls (although it
>>>> would presumably not kill you if tried to use socketcall).
>>>>
>>>> Alex, if glibc started using the new syscalls, would you want to require
>>>> them inside xdg-app?
>>>
>>> Probably not. At this point 32bit x86 just is not interesting enough
>>> for such extra pain. We'll just not filter on address types on 32bit.
>>
>> Why cant you write seccomp rules for socketcall too? It is just an
>> extra register to match on (and libseccomp could perhaps be taught to
>> make it easier). If the answer is because nobody cares about 32 bit
>> x86 then I understand.
>
> With socketcall, you can filter on the call number, but you can't
> filter on the arguments since they're in memory. So you can block
> socket(2) entirely, but you can't block all but AF_INET, for example.
Oh yes I forgot the socketcall args were passed as a pointer to the
real args. Yeah, not worth special casing.
Justin
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