[Bug 1891810] Please test proposed package

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Steve, or anyone else affected,

Accepted libseccomp into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libseccomp/2.5.1-1ubuntu1~20.10.1
in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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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 libseccomp source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in libseccomp source package in Bionic:
  In Progress
Status in libseccomp source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in libseccomp source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in libseccomp source package in Hirsute:
  Fix Released

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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