[Bug 1891810] Re: Backport 2.5.1 to fix missing openat2 syscall, causing problems for fuse-overlayfs in nspawn containers

[Alex Murray]

The fix for systemd's LP: #1918696 is not in the systemd xenial SRU
since, as noted in that bug, systemd in xenial doesn't include upstream
commit 469830d1426a91e0897c321fdc8ee428f0a750c1 which reworked the code
to switch from seccomp_rule_add to seccomp_rule_add_exact. In this case
systemd could handle lack of arch support itself, instead of allowing
the 'not exact' seccomp syscall to just ignore the call due to lack of
arch support.

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Title:
  Backport 2.5.1 to fix missing openat2 syscall, causing problems for
  fuse-overlayfs in nspawn containers

Status in libseccomp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in libseccomp source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Xenial:
  New
Status in libseccomp source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Bionic:
  Fix Committed
Status in libseccomp source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in libseccomp source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in systemd source package in Groovy:
  New
Status in libseccomp source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd source package in Hirsute:
  New

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  The version of libseccomp2 in X/B/F/G does not know about the openat2
  syscall. As such applications that use libseccomp cannot specify a
  system-call filter against this system-call and so it cannot be
  mediated.

  [Test Plan]

  This can be tested by simply running scmp_sys_resolver from the
  seccomp binary package and specifying this system-call:

  Existing behaviour:

  $ scmp_sys_resolver openat2
  -1

  Expected behaviour:

  $ scmp_sys_resolver openat2
  437

  (Note this value will be different on other architectures)

  [Where problems could occur]

  In version 2.5.1 of libseccomp which adds this new system-call,
  changes were also made in the way the socket system-call is handled by
  libseccomp on PPC platforms - this resulted in a change in the
  expected behaviour and so this has already been noticed and a fix is
  required for the systemd unit tests as a result
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1918696

  There was also a similar change for s390x but so far no regressions
  have been observed as a result as systemd already expected that
  behaviour from libseccomp, it was only PPC that was missing.

  In the event that a regression is observed however, we can easily
  either patch the affected package to cope with the new behaviour of
  this updated libseccomp since in each case the change in behaviour
  only affects a few system calls on particular architectures, or we can
  revert this update.

  [Other Info]

   * As usual thorough testing of this update has been performed both
  manually via the QA Regression Testing scripts, and via the
  autopkgtest infrastructure against packages in the Ubuntu Security
  Proposed PPA https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security-
  proposed/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/ with results seen
  https://people.canonical.com/~platform/security-britney/current/

  I have attached debdiffs of the prepared updates which are also
  sitting in the Ubuntu Security Proposed PPA.

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