benefits and drawbacks of syscall hooks/netdev0x18-zpoline

https://netdevconf.info/0x18/sessions/talk/benefits-and-drawbacks-of-syscall-hooks.html

1. benefits and drawbacks of syscall benefits and drawbacks of syscall hooks hooks  1
2. introduction introduction 2
3. what is syscall and why syscall hook ? what is syscall and why syscall hook ? 3
4. recap: how syscall works ? recap: how syscall works ? 4
5. change the behavior of syscall ? change the behavior of syscall ? 5
6. change the behavior of syscall ? change the behavior of syscall ? 5
7. variants variants 6
8. ptrace ptrace 7
9. SUD (syscall user dispatch) SUD (syscall user dispatch) 8
10. LD_PRELOAD LD_PRELOAD 9
11. binary rewriting binary rewriting syscall/sysenter 10
12. binary rewriting (cont'd) binary rewriting (cont'd) syscall jmp 0xdeadbeef syscall 0f 05 jmp 0xdeafbeef e9 de ad be af mov sysno %rax; syscall callq ${addr of handler} 11
13. summary of existing syscall hooks summary of existing syscall hooks 12
14. %rax zpoline zpoline syscall callq *%rax 13
15. zpoline: how it works zpoline: how it works callq *%rax syscall nop nop callq *%rax %rax $ echo 0 > "/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr" 14
16. zpoline: how it behaves zpoline: how it behaves 15
17. zpoline how it behaves (cont'd) zpoline how it behaves (cont'd) 16
18. zpoline: benefits zpoline: benefits 17
19. There ain't no such things as a free lunch There ain't no such things as a free lunch. . 18
20. pitfalls of syscall hooks pitfalls of syscall hooks 19
21. handling two universes in partial hooks handling two universes in partial hooks int hooked_select(pollfds[], nfds_t, int) { int host_fd = host_poll(); int user_fd = user_poll(); return (merge {host,user}_fd) } 20
22. Summary Summary 21
23. Backups Backups 22
24. How zpoline is started ? How zpoline is started ? syscall callq *%rax main() 23
25. libc replacement libc replacement 24
26. platform support platform support 25
27. null access termination null access termination mprotect(2) 26
28. References References 27