Re: ARM seccomp filters and EABI/OABI

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Thu Oct 31 2013 - 19:51:10 EST


On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday, October 28, 2013 11:16:20 PM Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 28.10.2013 22:53, schrieb Paul Moore:
>> > On Thursday, October 24, 2013 09:55:57 PM Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > wrote:
>> >>> I'm looking at the seccomp code, the ARM entry code, and the
>> >>> syscall(2) manpage, and I'm a bit lost. (The fact that I don't really
>> >>> speak ARM assembly doesn't help.) My basic question is: what happens
>> >>> if an OABI syscall happens?
>> >>>
>> >>> AFAICS, the syscall arguments for EABI are r0..r5, although their
>> >>> ordering is a bit odd*. For OABI, r6 seems to play some role, but I'm
>> >>> lost as to what it is. The seccomp_bpf_load function won't load r6,
>> >>> so there had better not be anything useful in there... (Also, struct
>> >>> seccomp_data will have issues with a seventh "argument".)
>> >>>
>> >>> But what happens to the syscall number? For an EABI syscall, it's in
>> >>> r7. For an OABI syscall, it's in the swi instruction and gets copied
>> >>> to r7 on entry. If a debugger changes r7, presumably the syscall
>> >>> number changes.
>> >>>
>> >>> Oddly, there are two different syscall tables. The major differences
>> >>> seem to be that some of the OABI entries have their argument order
>> >>> changed. But there's also a magic constant 0x900000 added to the
>> >>> syscall number somewhere -- is it reflected in _sigsys._syscall? Is
>> >>> it reflected in ucontext's r7?
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm a bit surprised to see that both the EABI and OABI ABIs show up as
>> >>> AUDIT_ARCH_ARM.
>> >>>
>> >>> Can any of you shed some light on this? I don't have an ARM system I
>> >>> can test on, but if one of you can point me at a decent QEMU image, I
>> >>> can play around.
>> >>
>> >> Maybe this helps:
>> >> http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/
>> >
>> > Thanks for the pointer, although those images look quite old, has anyone
>> > done a refresh?
>>
>> You are free to run "apt-get upgrade" within the said images. :-)
>
> Okay, true ;)

Except it didn't work... I fixed it with 'apt-key adv --recv-keys
--keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com <key id from update's error
message>'.

I have yet to build a working kernel for this thing, though.
Apparently kernels since 3.8 have something wrong in the "versatile"
board file. Do any of you have a working .config and qemu -M option?

>
> --
> paul moore
> www.paul-moore.com
>



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