[Virtio-fs] [PATCH] virtiofsd: Add `sigreturn` to the seccomp whitelist

Dr. David Alan Gilbert dgilbert at redhat.com
Tue Nov 29 09:42:21 UTC 2022


* Marc Hartmayer (mhartmay at linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > * Marc Hartmayer (mhartmay at linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> >> The virtiofsd currently crashes on s390x. This is because of a
> >> `sigreturn` system call. See audit log below:
> >> 
> >> type=SECCOMP msg=audit(1669382477.611:459): auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=6649 comm="virtiofsd" exe="/usr/libexec/virtiofsd" sig=31 arch=80000016 syscall=119 compat=0 ip=0x3fff15f748a code=0x80000000AUID="unset" UID="root" GID="root" ARCH=s390x SYSCALL=sigreturn
> >
> > I'm curious; doesn't that mean that some signal is being delivered and
> > you're returning?  Which one?
> 
> code=0x80000000 means that the seccomp action SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS
> is taken => process is killed by a SIGSYS signal (31) [1].
> 
> At least, that’s my understanding of this log message.
> 
> [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/seccomp.2.html

But isn't that the fallout rather than the cause ? i.e. seccomp
is sending a SIGSYS because the process used sigreturn, my question
is why did the process call sigreturn in the first place - it must
have received a signal to return from?

Dave

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> >
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