This is a defense-in-depth measure. If the sentry is compromised, this prevents
system call injection to the stubs. There is some complexity with respect to
ptrace and seccomp interactions, so this protection is not really available
for kernel versions < 4.8; this is detected dynamically.
Note that this also solves the vsyscall emulation issue by adding in
appropriate trapping for those system calls. It does mean that a compromised
sentry could theoretically inject these into the stub (ignoring the trap and
resume, thereby allowing execution), but they are harmless.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 216647581
Change-Id: Id06c232cbac1f9489b1803ec97f83097fcba8eb8
runApp.execute -> Task.SendSignal -> sendSignalLocked -> sendSignalTimerLocked
-> pendingSignals.enqueue assumes that it owns the arch.SignalInfo returned
from platform.Context.Switch.
On the other hand, ptrace.context.Switch assumes that it owns the returned
SignalInfo and can safely reuse it on the next call to Switch. The KVM platform
always returns a unique SignalInfo.
This becomes a problem when the returned signal is not immediately delivered,
allowing a future signal in Switch to change the previous pending SignalInfo.
This is noticeable in #38 when external SIGINTs are delivered from the PTY
slave FD. Note that the ptrace stubs are in the same process group as the
sentry, so they are eligible to receive the PTY signals. This should probably
change, but is not the only possible cause of this bug.
Updates #38
Original change by newmanwang <wcs1011@gmail.com>, updated by Michael Pratt
<mpratt@google.com>.
Change-Id: I5383840272309df70a29f67b25e8221f933622cd
PiperOrigin-RevId: 213071072
We have been unnecessarily creating too many savable types implicitly.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 206334201
Change-Id: Idc5a3a14bfb7ee125c4f2bb2b1c53164e46f29a8
If the child stubs are killed by any unmaskable signal (e.g. SIGKILL), then
the parent process will similarly be killed, resulting in the death of all
other stubs.
The effect of this is that if the OOM killer selects and kills a stub, the
effect is the same as though the OOM killer selected and killed the sentry.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 202219984
Change-Id: I0b638ce7e59e0a0f4d5cde12a7d05242673049d7
Adin Scannell
newmanwang
Zhaozhong Ni
Michael Pratt
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