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TODO: put journal-related stuff together

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Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek 2023-07-12 00:03:47 +02:00
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@ -258,10 +258,6 @@ Features:
both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
* fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
"*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
@ -282,10 +278,6 @@ Features:
* remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
cursors as they happen.
* In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
@ -315,20 +307,6 @@ Features:
* SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
localed, oomd, timedated.
* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
"corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
* in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
- generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
- Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
@ -396,18 +374,6 @@ Features:
* homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
these records, and use the structured info they include to display
"corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
records, to be able to order them.
* timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
@ -524,10 +490,6 @@ Features:
- If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
subsequent boots?
* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
inspiration from IMA log)
* provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
credentials. usecase: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
that way, without shelling out to our tools.
@ -783,11 +745,6 @@ Features:
and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
what it was signed.
* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
be safely written to disk, then.
* systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
@ -1038,17 +995,6 @@ Features:
uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
/sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
an NTP sync is acquired.
* kernel-install:
- add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
@ -1216,12 +1162,6 @@ Features:
* systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
for doing that.
* introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
/dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
@ -1461,13 +1401,8 @@ Features:
* Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
log.c and sd-journal-send
* optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
* sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
non-zero "tries done" count
@ -2084,8 +2019,70 @@ Features:
time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
validated via TPM.
* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
* rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
* journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
cursors as they happen.
* journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
"corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
* in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
these records, and use the structured info they include to display
"corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
* in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
records, to be able to order them.
* journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
be safely written to disk, then.
* hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
inspiration from IMA log)
* sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
* maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
for doing that.
* maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
log.c and sd-journal-send
* journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
an NTP sync is acquired.
* introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
* journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
@ -2112,6 +2109,9 @@ Features:
being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
* build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
* homed:
- when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
- rollback when resize fails mid-operation