Re: ARM audit, seccomp, etc are broken wrt OABI syscalls

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2013, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:55 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 Nov 2013, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >> Maybe the thing to do is to put a warning in the config text for
> >> CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT that describes the problems (malicious userspace
> >> can confuse syscall auditors, strace, etc.), change the "if in doubt"
> >> part to N, and disable seccomp filters if CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT.  That
> >> might even get Debian to change their default.
> >
> > Bug reported to the Debian BTS: #728975
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728975
> 
> FWIW, Ubuntu has also now disabled OABI_COMPAT going forward:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2013-November/034242.html

Unless something very weird happens, it looks like that's also what Debian
will do.

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