On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 7:07 PM Shabir Mean <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 5:15:00 PM UTC-5, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:40 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to add a rule to block the clone() syscall when its called 
> > > with the CLONE_NEWUSER flag. I want to allow the other flags to work.
> > >
> > > How I did this was:
> > >
> > > seccomp_rule_add(ctx, SCMP_FAIL, SCMP_SYS(clone), 1,
> > >                                 SCMP_A2(SCMP_CMP_MASKED_EQ, 
> > > CLONE_NEWUSER, CLONE_NEWUSER))
> > >
> > >
> > > Notice that the SCMP macro used is SCMP_A2 since the flags in the clone() 
> > > system call is provided at the 3rd argument. However, this doesn't seem 
> > > to work.
> > >
> > > It only works when I use  SCMP_A0. Why is this happening? What could be 
> > > the reason?
> > > Am I missing something? I couldn't find any information on it and the 
> > > examples on the man-page seem to be suggesting the above.
> >
> > What architecture are you running on?  Unfortunately the clone()
> > syscall has different argument ordering depending on the architecture,
> > that may be what is happening here.  You can use strace to verify the
> > syscall argument order.
> >
> > Eventually I want libseccomp to abstract things like this away from
> > the callers, but we are not there yet.
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Thank you for the quick response.
> I am running on:
>     Kernel Version 4.4.0-79-generic on a x86_64 running Ubuntu
>
> A strace on a simple program with clone prints the following:
> clone(child_stack=0x7f1853b4e000, flags=CLONE_NEWUSER|SIGCHLD)
>
> So should it be SCMP_A1 instead of SCMP_A0?

It looks like your system is passing the clone(2) flags as the second
argument, so yes, I would suggest using SCMP_A1(...) in your
libseccomp filter.  Let us know if that works.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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