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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-12-17 16:03:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 17:15:22 -0800
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/proc/pid/status: add "Seccomp" field
It is currently impossible to examine the state of seccomp for a given process. While attaching with gdb and attempting "call prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP,...)" will work with some situations, it is not reliable. If the process is in seccomp mode 1, this query will kill the process (prctl not allowed), if the process is in mode 2 with prctl not allowed, it will similarly be killed, and in weird cases, if prctl is filtered to return errno 0, it can look like seccomp is disabled. When reviewing the state of running processes, there should be a way to externally examine the seccomp mode. ("Did this build of Chrome end up using seccomp?" "Did my distro ship ssh with seccomp enabled?") This adds the "Seccomp" line to /proc/$pid/status. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 74cb394e6888..12665ee7094a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ read the file /proc/PID/status:
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
CapBnd: ffffffffffffffff
+ Seccomp: 0
voluntary_ctxt_switches: 0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches: 1
@@ -237,6 +238,7 @@ Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 2.6.30-rc7)
CapPrm bitmap of permitted capabilities
CapEff bitmap of effective capabilities
CapBnd bitmap of capabilities bounding set
+ Seccomp seccomp mode, like prctl(PR_GET_SECCOMP, ...)
Cpus_allowed mask of CPUs on which this process may run
Cpus_allowed_list Same as previous, but in "list format"
Mems_allowed mask of memory nodes allowed to this process