BTI interaction between seccomp filters in systemd and glibc mprotect calls, causing service failures

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Oct 26 12:51:25 EDT 2020


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 03:56:35PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 02:52:46PM +0000, Catalin Marinas via Libc-alpha wrote:

> > Now, if the dynamic loader silently ignores the mprotect() failure on
> > the main executable, is there much value in exposing a flag in the aux
> > vectors? It saves a few (one?) mprotect() calls but I don't think it
> > matters much. Anyway, I don't mind the flag.

> I don't see a problem with the aforementioned patch [2] to pre-set BTI
> on the pages of the main binary.

Me either FWIW.
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