Re: [REGRESSION] 5.8-rc3: seccomp crash with Chromium, QtWebEngine and related browsers: seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0072

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jun 29 2020 - 15:28:49 EST


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:08:10AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Dear Andy, Kees, Will, dear kernel community,
>
> With 5.8-rc3 there is a seccomp related crash which prevents Chromium and
> QtWebEngine from starting:
>
> Bug 208369 - seccomp crash with Chromium, QtWebEngine and related browsers: seccomp-bpf failure in syscall 0072
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208369
>
> Reverting to 5.8-rc2 fixes the issue.

Hi,

It looks like this is from e9c15badbb7b ("fs: Do not check if there is a
fsnotify watcher on pseudo inodes")

Currently being discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7b4aa1e985007c6d582fffe5e8435f8153e28e0f.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/#r

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Kees Cook