RET_KILL_THREAD doesn't work well for Go because it will
kill only the offending thread and leave the process hanging.
RET_TRAP can be masked out and it's not guaranteed to kill
the process. RET_KILL_PROCESS is available since 4.14.
For older kernel, continue to use RET_TRAP as this is the
best option (likely to kill process, easy to debug).
PiperOrigin-RevId: 222357867
Change-Id: Icc1d7d731274b16c2125b7a1ba4f7883fbdb2cbd
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
Fabricio Voznika
Ian Gudger
Adin Scannell
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