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 - 17:02:25 EST


On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 04:08:07PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:41:56AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> It's a definite problem. I've sent a revert but it hasn't hit lkml yet
> for whatever reason.

Okay, thanks! (Yeah, I think vger might be stuck?)

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Kees Cook