Work around clock_gettime kernel bug on Linux x32 (closes: #849923).

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/patches/sandbox-x32-workaround.patch b/debian/patches/sandbox-x32-workaround.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fabaecfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/sandbox-x32-workaround.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From e346421ca6852fbf9f95cf0e764ecc345e5ce21d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
+Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 14:01:56 +0000
+Subject: Work around clock_gettime kernel bug on Linux x32
+
+On Linux x32, the clock_gettime VDSO currently falls back to the x86-64
+syscall, so allow that as well as its x32 sibling.
+
+Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/849923
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2017-01-03
+
+Patch-Name: sandbox-x32-workaround.patch
+---
+ sandbox-seccomp-filter.c | 9 +++++++++
+ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/sandbox-seccomp-filter.c b/sandbox-seccomp-filter.c
+index 2e1ed2c5..62c578d3 100644
+--- a/sandbox-seccomp-filter.c
++++ b/sandbox-seccomp-filter.c
+@@ -137,6 +137,15 @@ static const struct sock_filter preauth_insns[] = {
+ #endif
+ #ifdef __NR_clock_gettime
+        SC_ALLOW(clock_gettime),
++# if defined(__x86_64__) && defined(__ILP32__)
++       /* On Linux x32, the clock_gettime VDSO currently falls back to the
++        * x86-64 syscall (see https://bugs.debian.org/849923), so allow
++        * that too.
++        */
++       BPF_JUMP(BPF_JMP+BPF_JEQ+BPF_K,
++           __NR_clock_gettime & ~__X32_SYSCALL_BIT, 0, 1),
++       BPF_STMT(BPF_RET+BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW),
++# endif
+ #endif
+ #ifdef __NR_close
+        SC_ALLOW(close),