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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
91 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and somethines specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
101 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
106 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
122 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
125 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
129 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
137 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
138 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
139 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
140 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
141
142 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
143 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
144 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
145 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
146 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
147 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
148 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
149 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
150
151 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
152 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
153 via "systemctl status".
154
155 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
156 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
157 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
158
159 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
160 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
161
162 * make systemd-pcrextend accessible via varlink so that clients can measure
163 things reasonably freely, and get a proper entry in the TPM event log we
164 maintain, correctly synchronized
165
166 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
167 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
168
169 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
170 menu.
171
172 * extend the various CLI tools we have that output JSON already to also read
173 their command to execute from JSON in varlink format, so that you can fork
174 them off and talk to them fully via varlink.
175
176 * add a "varlinkctl" tool that allows interacting with varlink services from
177 the shell. In particular add a "--exec=" switch, which allows specifying a
178 binary to invoke to which to talk via stdin/stdout
179
180 * make tools that speak varlink over stdin/stdout trivially sockect
181 activatable. i.e. once bootctl, kernel-install, systemd-measure and similar
182 speak varlink make them available via a .socket unit with Accept=yes, so that
183 they can be talked to via IPC out-of-process
184
185 * beef up .service units that are socket activated with Accept=yes with options
186 AllowPeerUser= + AllowPeerGroup= to allow trivially simple access control
187 when invoked via socket as IPC services
188
189 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
190 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
191 -c owner?).
192
193 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
194 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
195 migratable between PCs)
196
197 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
198 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
199 snapshot logic
200
201 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
202 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
203 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
204 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstrem OS' kernel and adding
205 a local key to it.
206
207 * PidRef conversion work:
208 - pid_is_unwaited() → pidref_is_unwaited()
209 - pid_is_alive() → pidref_is_alive()
210 - is_kernel_thread() → pidref_is_kernel_thread()
211 - pid_is_my_child() → pidref_is_my_child()
212 - cg_pid_get_path() → cg_pidref_get_path()
213 - get_process_uid() → pidref_get_uid()
214 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
215 - exec_spawn()
216 - serialization of control/main pid in service, socket, mount, swap units
217 - cg_pid_get_unit()
218 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
219 - scope dbus PIDs property needs to gain PIDFDs companion
220 - sd_bus_creds
221 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
222 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
223 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
224
225 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
226
227 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
228 mode.
229
230 * homed: add a basic form of of secrets management to homed, that stores
231 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
232 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
233 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
234 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
235 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
236 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
237
238 * sd-boot should probably measure its configuration file to PCR 5 at boot, as
239 per TCG PC Client Platform Firmware Profile Spec.
240
241 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for .socket units to "pause" overly
242 busy sockets temporarily. (as a less drastic version of the trigger
243 ratelimit)
244
245 * similar, add the same for journal stream clients that log too much
246
247 * systemd-mount sould only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
248 to systemd-dissect
249
250 * new "systemd-pcrlock" component for dealing with PCR4. Design idea:
251 1. define /{etc,usr,var/lib}/pcrlock.d/<component>/<version>.pcrlock
252 2. these files contain list of hashes that will be measured when component is
253 run, per PCR
254 3. each component involved in the boot that is deterministically measured can
255 place one or more of these files in those dirs (shim, sd-boot,
256 sd-stub/UKI, cryptsetup, pcrphase, pcrfs, …)
257 4. since each component has its own dir, with multiple files in them, package
258 such as kernels (of which there can be multiple installed at the same
259 time) can be grouped together: only one of them is measured at a time.
260 5. whenever a new component is added or an old one removed, or the PCR lock
261 shall be relaxed or tightened the systemd-pcrlock tool is invoked.
262 6. tool iterates through all these files, orders them alphabetically by
263 component, then matches them up with current measurements (as per uefi
264 event log), identifying by hash, accepting that the "beginning" of the
265 measurements might not be recognizable.
266 7. Then calculates expected PCR values starting with the "unrecognized
267 head" from the event log, then continuing with all of components
268 defined via the .pcrlock files (but dropping out the "recognized tail"
269 from the uefi event log). (This might mean combinatorial explosion, if
270 there are multiple shims, multiple sd-boot, and so on.)
271 8. Generates a public/private key pair on the TPM
272 9. Generates a counter object in the TPM, with a policy that allows only
273 one-by-one increase with signature policy by the public/private key pair.
274 10. now signs policies of all expected PCR values with the generated keypair,
275 using all combinations of components defined in the .pcrlock files
276 restricting it to the counter + 1.
277 11. locks down the keypair with a signed policy with its own public key
278 12. generates JSON file of all these policies with their signatures, drops
279 them as singleton in ESP
280 13. increases the counter by one.
281 14. after boot sd-stub picks JSON up from ESP, passes it to userspace via
282 .extra
283 15. JSON contained policies can now be used to unlock disk as well as the
284 public/key itself for signing further policies, as well as increment for
285 the counter
286 16. whenever any of the components above is added/removed new JSON file with
287 signatures for counter + 1 is generated, dropped in ESP, then counter
288 increased. (i.e. this means the "recognized tail" of the event log is
289 deterministically swapped out)
290 17. when firmware update is expected, relaxed signed policy is generated for
291 next boot only valid if counter is increased (this means the
292 "unrecognized head" for the event log can change without losing access)
293 18. on every boot checks if releaxed policy is in effect, if so, new strict
294 policy is generated and counter increased.
295 Net result: Removes downgrade attack surface + Locks OS to firmware + Allows
296 downgrades within bounds
297
298 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
299 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
300 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
301 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
302 control of the attacker.
303
304 * also include packaging metadata (á la
305 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
306 same JSON format.
307
308 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
309 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
310 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
311 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
312 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
313 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
314 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
315 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
316 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
317 newer.
318
319 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
320 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
321 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
322 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
323 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
324 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
325 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
326 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
327
328 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
329 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
330 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
331
332 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
333 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
334 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
335 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
336 independently of any kernel.
337
338 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
339 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
340 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
341 requested during switch root.
342
343 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
344
345 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
346 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
347 matched against OS.
348
349 * use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
350 without the other)
351
352 * in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
353 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
354 sd-stub, explicitly.
355
356 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
357 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
358 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
359
360 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
361 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
362 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
363 namespaces)
364
365 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
366 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
367
368 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
369 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
370 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
371
372 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
373 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
374 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
375 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
376 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
377 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
378
379 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
380 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
381 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
382 used transiently, never persistently.
383
384 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
385 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
386 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
387 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
388 based on lo_file_name.
389
390 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
391
392 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
393 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
394 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
395 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
396 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
397 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
398 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
399 activation-by-message id and similar.
400
401 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
402
403 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
404 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
405 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
406 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
407
408 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
409 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
410 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
411 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
412 similar behaviour for system services, too.
413
414 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
415 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
416 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
417
418 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
419
420 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
421 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
422 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
423
424 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
425 localed, oomd, timedated.
426
427 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
428 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
429 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
430 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
431 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
432 signed by U.
433 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
434 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
435 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
436 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
437 next boot
438 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
439 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
440 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
441 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
442 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
443 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
444 later boot.
445 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
446 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
447 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
448 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
449 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
450
451 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
452 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
453 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
454 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
455 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
456 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
457 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
458 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
459 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
460 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
461 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
462 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
463 access.
464
465 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
466 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
467 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
468 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
469 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
470 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
471 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
472 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
473 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
474 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
475
476 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
477 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
478
479 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
480 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
481 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
482 for all umh processes.
483
484 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
485 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
486
487 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
488 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
489 resize.
490
491 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
492 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
493
494 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
495 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
496 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
497 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
498 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
499 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
500 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
501 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
502 system actually reset.
503
504 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
505 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
506 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
507
508 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
509 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
510 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
511 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
512
513 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
514 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
515 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
516 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
517
518 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
519 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
520 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
521 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
522 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
523
524 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
525 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
526 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
527 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
528 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
529
530 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
531
532 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
533 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
534 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
535 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
536
537 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
538 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
539
540 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
541 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
542 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
543
544 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
545 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
546
547 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
548 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
549 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
550 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
551 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
552 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
553 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
554 usual.
555
556 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
557
558 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
559
560 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
561
562 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
563 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
564 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
565 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
566 sockaddr.
567
568 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
569 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
570 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
571 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
572 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
573 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
574 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
575 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
576 try to use inode from there.
577
578 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
579 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
580
581 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
582 extensions
583
584 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
585 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
586 for the root fs or /usr/.
587
588 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
589 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
590 combination thereof.
591
592 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
593 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
594 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
595 ahead of time.
596
597 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
598 aforementioned purpose.
599
600 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
601 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
602
603 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
604 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
605 to figure out:
606 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
607 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
608 subsequent boots?
609
610 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
611 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
612 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
613
614 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
615 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
616 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
617 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
618 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
619 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
620 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
621 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
622 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
623 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
624
625 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
626 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
627 used)
628
629 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
630 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
631 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
632 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
633 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
634
635 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
636 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
637 how PCR values we manage came to
638 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
639
640 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
641 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
642 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
643 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
644 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
645 should win over vendor defaults.
646
647 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
648 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
649 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
650
651 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
652 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
653
654 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
655 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
656 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
657 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
658 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
659 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
660
661 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
662 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
663 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
664
665 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
666
667 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
668 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
669 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
670 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
671
672 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
673 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
674 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
675 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
676 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
677 only one for each OS.
678
679 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
680 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
681 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
682 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
683 boot, for the next.
684
685 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
686 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
687
688 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
689 similar behind it, instead of http.
690
691 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
692 boot, or on first boot.
693
694 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
695 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
696
697 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
698 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
699 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
700 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
701 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
702 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
703 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
704 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
705 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
706 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
707 until users are allowed to log in).
708
709 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
710 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
711
712 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
713 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
714 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
715 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
716 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
717 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
718 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
719 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
720 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
721 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
722 automatically invalidated outside of it.
723
724 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
725 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
726 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
727 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
728 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
729 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
730 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
731 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
732 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
733 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
734 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
735 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
736 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
737 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
738 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
739 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
740 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
741 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
742 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
743 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
744 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
745
746 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
747 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
748
749 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
750 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
751
752 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
753 instead of manual blocking.
754
755 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
756 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
757
758 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
759 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
760 supplied password.
761
762 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
763 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
764 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
765 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
766
767 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
768 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
769 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
770 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
771
772 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
773 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
774 automatically derived from --private-key=).
775
776 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
777 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
778 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
779
780 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
781 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
782 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
783 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
784 partition with a portable service partition in one.
785
786 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
787 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
788 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
789 modules
790
791 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
792 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
793 a new name with a built-in config?
794
795 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
796 maybe on kernel command line:
797 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
798 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
799
800 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
801 hash type, etc)
802
803 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
804 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
805
806 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
807 but final node is not a directory
808
809 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
810 non-VFAT fs is used.
811
812 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
813
814 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
815 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
816
817 * pick up creds from EFI vars
818
819 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
820
821 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
822 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
823 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
824 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
825 affect PCR values.
826
827 * systemd-measure tool:
828 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
829
830 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
831 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
832
833 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
834 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
835
836 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
837 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
838
839 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
840 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
841
842 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
843 maybe some other stuff and boots it. Should implement command line roughly
844 equivalent to nspawn's. Maybe be called "systemd-vmspawn". Should imply good
845 settings, i.e. RNG + HyperV enlightenments. Should also result in swtpm
846 instance, plus virtiofsd instances. Translate credentials into smbios type
847 11 strings. Correctly translate SIGTERM into ACPI shutdown events.
848 Listen to logind suspend events and turn these into suspend key pressed +
849 ACPI resume events.
850
851 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
852 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
853 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
854 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
855 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
856 use it.
857
858 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
859 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
860
861 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
862 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
863 what it was signed.
864
865 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
866 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
867 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
868 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
869 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
870 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
871 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
872 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
873 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
874 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
875 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
876 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
877
878 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
879 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
880
881 * Process credentials in:
882 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
883 via the credentials logic.
884 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
885 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
886 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
887 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
888 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
889 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
890 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
891 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
892 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
893 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
894 file system paths to enable on start.
895 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
896 usr=
897 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
898 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
899 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
900 account one can directly log into.
901 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
902 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
903 pre-built kernels.
904
905 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
906 runtime state. Then, expose it:
907
908 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
909 about the unit.
910 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
911 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
912 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
913 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
914 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
915 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
916
917 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
918 what to do if support ended
919
920 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
921 login time, à la motd
922
923 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
924 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
925 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
926 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
927 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
928
929 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
930 initrd transition. Specifically:
931 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
932 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
933 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
934
935 * implement varlink introspection
936
937 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
938 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
939 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
940 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
941 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
942 depending on desired level of persistency.
943
944 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
945 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
946 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
947 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
948 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
949 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
950 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
951 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
952
953 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
954 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
955 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
956 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
957
958 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
959
960 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
961
962 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
963 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
964 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
965 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
966 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
967 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
968 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
969 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
970 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
971 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
972 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
973 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
974 not unprivileged code.
975
976 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
977 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
978
979 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
980 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
981 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
982 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
983
984 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
985 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
986 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
987 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
988 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
989 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
990 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
991 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
992 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
993
994 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
995 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
996 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
997 order.
998
999 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
1000 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
1001 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
1002 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
1003 whenever they want.
1004
1005 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1006 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1007 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1008
1009 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1010 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1011 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1012 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1013 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1014 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1015 IN_IGNORED again)
1016
1017 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1018 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1019 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1020 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1021 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1022 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1023 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1024 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1025 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1026 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1027 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1028 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1029
1030 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1031 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1032 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1033
1034 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1035 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1036 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1037 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1038 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1039 directly to host service manager.
1040
1041 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1042 no api to query the device id
1043
1044 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1045 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1046 also be queried.
1047
1048 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1049 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1050 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1051 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1052
1053 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1054 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1055 latter).
1056
1057 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1058
1059 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1060
1061 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1062 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1063 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1064 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1065
1066 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1067 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1068 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1069 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1070 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1071 UEFI HTTP boot.
1072
1073 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1074 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1075 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1076 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1077 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1078 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1079 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1080 hence cheap for enumeration.
1081
1082 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1083
1084 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1085 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1086 words: show partition labels).
1087
1088 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1089 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1090 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1091 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1092 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1093 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1094 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1095
1096 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
1097
1098 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1099
1100 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1101
1102 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1103 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1104 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1105 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1106 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1107 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1108 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1109 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1110 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1111 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1112
1113 * kernel-install:
1114 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
1115
1116 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1117 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1118
1119 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1120 jobs, units
1121
1122 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1123 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1124 userspace)
1125
1126 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1127
1128 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1129 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1130
1131 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1132 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1133
1134 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1135 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1136
1137 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1138 internal clock.
1139
1140 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1141 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1142
1143 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1144 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1145 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1146 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1147
1148 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1149 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1150 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1151
1152 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1153 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1154 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1155 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1156 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1157 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1158 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1159 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1160 thread:
1161 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1162 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1163 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1164 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1165 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1166 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1167
1168 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1169 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1170 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1171
1172 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1173 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1174 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1175 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1176 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1177 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1178 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1179 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1180 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1181 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1182 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1183 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1184 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1185 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1186 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1187
1188 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1189 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1190 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1191 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1192 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1193 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1194
1195 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1196 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1197 dep in the base OS image)
1198
1199 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1200 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1201 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1202 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1203 on-disk storage.
1204
1205 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1206 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1207 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1208 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1209 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1210
1211 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1212 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1213 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1214
1215 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1216 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1217 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1218 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1219 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1220 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1221 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1222
1223 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1224 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1225 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1226 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1227
1228 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1229 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1230 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1231 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1232 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1233 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1234 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1235 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1236 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1237 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1238 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1239
1240 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1241 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1242 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1243
1244 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1245
1246 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1247
1248 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1249 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1250 that images cannot be misused.
1251
1252 * New udev block device symlink names:
1253 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1254 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1255 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1256 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1257
1258 * sysupdate:
1259 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1260 - support casync as download mechanism
1261 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1262 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1263 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1264 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1265 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1266 override the host's update files.)
1267 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1268 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1269 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1270 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1271
1272 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1273
1274 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1275 make dirs appear under right UID.
1276
1277 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1278 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1279
1280 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1281 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1282 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1283 already have it.
1284
1285 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1286 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1287
1288 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1289
1290 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1291 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1292 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1293 /proc/self/fd/3
1294
1295 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1296 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1297 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1298
1299 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1300 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1301
1302 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1303 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1304
1305 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1306 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1307 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1308 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1309 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1310
1311 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1312
1313 * credentials system:
1314 - acquire from EFI variable?
1315 - acquire via ask-password?
1316 - acquire creds via keyring?
1317 - pass creds via keyring?
1318 - pass creds via memfd?
1319 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1320 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1321 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1322 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1323 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1324 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1325 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1326 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1327
1328 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1329 firmware indicates there is one.
1330
1331 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1332 and such
1333
1334 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1335
1336 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1337
1338 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1339 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1340
1341 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1342 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1343
1344 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1345
1346 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1347 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1348
1349 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1350 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1351
1352 * cryptsetup:
1353 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1354 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1355
1356 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1357
1358 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1359 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1360
1361 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1362 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1363
1364 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1365 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1366
1367 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1368
1369 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1370
1371 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1372
1373 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1374 when it exits
1375
1376 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1377 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1378 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1379 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1380 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1381 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1382 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1383 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1384 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1385
1386 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1387 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1388 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1389
1390 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1391 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1392
1393 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1394
1395 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1396 specific service
1397
1398 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1399 exists and responds.
1400
1401 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1402 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1403
1404 * unify on openssl:
1405 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1406 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1407 gnutls
1408 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1409
1410 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1411 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1412
1413 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1414 realname substr searches in varlink API
1415
1416 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1417
1418 * userdb: allow existence checks
1419
1420 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1421
1422 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1423 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1424 initrd had set.
1425
1426 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1427 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1428 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1429 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1430 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1431 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1432
1433 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1434 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1435 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1436
1437 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1438 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1439 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1440 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1441 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1442 source.
1443
1444 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1445 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1446 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1447
1448 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1449
1450 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1451 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1452 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1453 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1454 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1455 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1456 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1457 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1458 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1459 hibernation mode. (see
1460 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1461 section 10.2.2.8 and
1462 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1463 at the end).
1464
1465 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1466 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1467
1468 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1469
1470 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1471 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1472 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1473 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1474 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1475 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1476 exec().
1477
1478 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1479
1480 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1481 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1482
1483 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1484 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1485
1486 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1487 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1488 root.
1489
1490 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1491 is issued.
1492
1493 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1494
1495 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1496
1497 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1498 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1499 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1500
1501 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1502 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1503 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1504
1505 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1506
1507 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1508 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1509
1510 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1511 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1512 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1513 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1514
1515 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1516
1517 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1518
1519 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1520 non-zero "tries done" count
1521
1522 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1523 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1524 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1525 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1526 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1527 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1528 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1529 CODE_FILE.
1530
1531 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1532 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1533 some explanatory text online.
1534
1535 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1536
1537 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1538 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1539
1540 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1541
1542 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1543 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1544
1545 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1546 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1547 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1548 files and suchlike we operate on.
1549
1550 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1551
1552 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1553
1554 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1555 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1556
1557 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1558 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1559
1560 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1561 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1562 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1563 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1564 unlinked from any dir.
1565
1566 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1567
1568 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1569
1570 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1571
1572 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1573 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1574 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1575 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1576 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1577
1578 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1579
1580 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1581
1582 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1583 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1584
1585 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1586 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1587 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1588 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1589 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1590 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1591 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1592 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1593
1594 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1595 for root, but only then.
1596
1597 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1598 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1599
1600 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1601 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1602
1603 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1604 only when used. Add unit tests.
1605
1606 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1607 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1608
1609 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1610 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1611 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1612 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1613 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1614
1615 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1616
1617 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1618
1619 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1620 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1621
1622 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1623
1624 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1625
1626 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1627 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1628
1629 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1630 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1631 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1632 ID is available.
1633
1634 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1635 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1636 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1637
1638 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1639 parameters
1640
1641 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1642 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1643 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1644 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1645 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1646 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1647 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1648
1649 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1650 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1651
1652 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1653 about it in the resource log message
1654
1655 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1656 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1657 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1658
1659 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1660 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1661
1662 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1663
1664 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1665 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1666 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1667
1668 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1669 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1670
1671 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1672 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1673 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1674 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1675 natural habitat.
1676
1677 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1678 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1679
1680 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1681 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1682 relative to the configured default value.
1683
1684 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1685
1686 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1687
1688 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1689
1690 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1691
1692 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1693
1694 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1695
1696 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1697
1698 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1699
1700 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1701 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1702 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1703
1704 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1705 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1706
1707 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1708
1709 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1710 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1711 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1712 mapping to work.
1713
1714 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1715
1716 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1717
1718 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1719
1720 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1721 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1722
1723 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1724 reload the unit file anyway
1725
1726 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1727
1728 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1729
1730 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1731 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1732
1733 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1734 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1735 specifications.
1736
1737 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1738
1739 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1740
1741 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1742 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1743 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1744 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1745
1746 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1747
1748 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1749
1750 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1751 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1752 state.
1753 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1754
1755 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1756 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1757 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1758 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1759 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1760
1761 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1762
1763 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1764 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1765
1766 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1767 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1768
1769 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1770 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1771
1772 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1773
1774 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1775 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1776
1777 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1778
1779 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1780
1781 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1782
1783 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1784 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1785
1786 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1787
1788 * resolved:
1789 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1790 - service registration
1791 - service/domain/types browsing
1792 - avahi compat
1793 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1794 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1795 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1796 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1797 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1798 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1799
1800 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1801
1802 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1803
1804 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1805
1806 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1807
1808 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1809
1810 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1811 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1812
1813 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1814
1815 * gpt-auto-generator:
1816 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1817 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1818
1819 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1820 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1821 when it is otherwise off
1822
1823 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1824
1825 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1826 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1827 for ReusePort=
1828
1829 * cgroups:
1830 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1831 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1832 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1833 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1834 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1835 the hierarchies of child processes
1836 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1837 maybe use them for user@.service
1838
1839 * transient units:
1840 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1841
1842 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1843
1844 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1845
1846 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1847
1848 * rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
1849
1850 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1851
1852 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1853 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1854 path anyway.
1855
1856 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1857
1858 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1859
1860 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1861
1862 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1863
1864 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1865
1866 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1867
1868 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1869 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1870 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1871
1872 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1873 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1874
1875 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1876
1877 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1878
1879 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1880
1881 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1882 needs to be auto-respawned?
1883
1884 * pid1:
1885 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1886 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1887 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1888 that are not supported...
1889 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1890 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1891 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1892 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1893 - move PAM code into its own binary
1894 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1895 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1896 - Support --test based on current system state
1897 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
1898 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1899 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1900 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1901 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1902 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1903 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1904 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1905 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1906 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1907 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1908 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1909 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1910
1911 * unit files:
1912 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1913 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1914 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1915 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1916 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1917 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1918 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1919 - introduce Type=pid-file
1920 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1921 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1922 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1923
1924 * timer units:
1925 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1926 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1927
1928 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1929
1930 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1931
1932 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1933
1934 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1935
1936 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1937
1938 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1939
1940 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1941
1942 * test/:
1943 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1944
1945 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1946 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1947 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1948 destination.
1949
1950 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1951 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1952
1953 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1954
1955 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1956 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1957 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1958
1959 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1960 compliant boot loader is installed.
1961
1962 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1963 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1964 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1965 that automatically.
1966
1967 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1968
1969 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1970
1971 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1972
1973 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1974
1975 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1976
1977 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1978
1979 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1980
1981 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1982
1983 * sd-bus:
1984 - EBADSLT handling
1985 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1986 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1987 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
1988 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1989 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1990 - longer term: priority inheritance
1991 - dbus spec updates:
1992 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1993 - path escaping
1994 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1995
1996 * sd-event
1997 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1998 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1999 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2000 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2001 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2002 here:
2003 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2004
2005 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2006 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2007
2008 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2009
2010 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2011
2012 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2013
2014 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2015
2016 * EFI:
2017 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2018 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2019 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2020 * bootctl
2021 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2022
2023 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2024
2025 * bootctl:
2026 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2027 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2028 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2029
2030 * logind:
2031 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2032 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2033 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2034 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2035 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2036 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2037 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2038 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2039 needs setuid().
2040 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2041 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2042 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2043 complete.
2044 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2045 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2046 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2047 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2048 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2049 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2050 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2051 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2052 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2053 relogins
2054 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2055 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2056 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2057 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2058
2059 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2060
2061 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2062 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2063 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2064
2065 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2066 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2067
2068 * journal:
2069 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2070 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2071 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2072 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2073 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2074 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2075 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2076 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2077 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2078 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2079 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2080 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2081 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2082 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2083 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2084 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2085 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2086 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
2087 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2088 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2089 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2090 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2091 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2092 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2093 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2094 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2095 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2096 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2097 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2098 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2099 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2100 to syslog when it works again.
2101 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2102 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2103 journals in.
2104 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2105 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2106 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2107 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2108 the most common operations.
2109 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2110 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2111 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2112 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2113 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2114 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2115 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2116 operation.
2117 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2118 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2119 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2120 binary logs data
2121 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2122 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2123 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2124 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2125 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2126 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2127
2128 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2129 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2130
2131 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2132 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2133 validated via TPM.
2134
2135 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2136 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2137 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2138
2139 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2140 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2141 cursors as they happen.
2142
2143 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2144 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2145 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2146 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2147 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2148 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2149 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2150 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2151 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2152
2153 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2154 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2155 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2156 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2157 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2158 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2159
2160 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2161 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2162 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2163 records, to be able to order them.
2164
2165 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2166 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2167 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2168 be safely written to disk, then.
2169
2170 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2171 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2172 inspiration from IMA log)
2173
2174 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2175 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2176 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2177
2178 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2179 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2180 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2181 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2182 for doing that.
2183
2184 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2185 log.c and sd-journal-send
2186
2187 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2188 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2189 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2190 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2191 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2192 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2193 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2194 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2195 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2196 an NTP sync is acquired.
2197
2198 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2199
2200 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2201 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2202 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2203
2204 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2205 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2206 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2207 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2208 cgroup.
2209
2210 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2211 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2212 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2213 logging.
2214
2215 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2216
2217 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2218 from the SIGBUS handler
2219
2220 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2221 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2222 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2223 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2224
2225 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2226 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2227
2228 * homed:
2229 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2230 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2231 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2232 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2233 - create on activate?
2234 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2235 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2236 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2237 systemd --user is shut down.
2238 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2239 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2240 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2241 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2242 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2243 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2244 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2245 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2246 - query password from kernel keyring first
2247 - update even if record is "absent"
2248 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2249 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2250 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2251 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2252 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2253 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2254 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2255 doesn't mean user B sees it
2256 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2257 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2258 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2259 signature
2260 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2261 and insert a local signature instead.
2262 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2263 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2264 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2265 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2266 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2267 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2268 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2269 easily?
2270 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2271 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2272 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2273 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2274 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2275 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2276 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2277 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2278 can easily set overall quota for all users
2279 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2280 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2281 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2282 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2283 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2284 large.
2285
2286 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2287 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2288 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2289
2290 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2291
2292 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2293 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2294 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2295 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2296
2297 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2300 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2301 something goes wrong on the way.
2302
2303 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2304
2305 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2306 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2307 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2308 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2309
2310 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2311 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2312 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2313 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2314 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2315 automatically.
2316
2317 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2318 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2319
2320 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2321 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2322 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2323 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2324 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2325 fails to apply use the latter.
2326
2327 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2328 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2329
2330 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2331 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2332
2333 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2334 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2335 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2336
2337 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2338 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2339
2340 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2341 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2342 during boot.
2343
2344 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2345
2346 * document:
2347 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2348 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2349 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2350 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2351 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2352 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2353 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2354 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2355 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2356 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2357 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2358 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2359
2360 * systemctl:
2361 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2362 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2363 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2364 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2365 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2366 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2367 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2368 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2369 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2370 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2371
2372 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2373 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2374 it should skip the variant type string though.
2375
2376 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2377 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2378 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2379
2380 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2381 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2382 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2383
2384 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2385 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2386
2387 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2388 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2389 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2390 do, for example)
2391
2392 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2393 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2394 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2395 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2396
2397 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2398
2399 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2400
2401 * unit install:
2402 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2403 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2404
2405 * nspawn:
2406 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2407 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2408 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2409 from the kernel's logs.
2410 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2411 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2412 interface be missing
2413 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2414 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2415 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2416 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2417 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2418 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2419 PID 1...
2420 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2421 running, remove them when shut down.
2422 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2423 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2424 startup.
2425 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2426 or so, freeze the payload too.
2427 - support time namespaces
2428 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2429 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2430 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2431 "machinectl shell"
2432 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2433 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2434 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2435 - greater control over selinux label?
2436 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2437 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2438 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2439 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2440 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2441 host TPM.
2442 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2443 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2444 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2445 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2446 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2447 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2448 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2449 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2450 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2451 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2452 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2453 or two sockets.
2454 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2455
2456 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2457 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2458 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2459 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2460 anything like that.
2461
2462 * machined:
2463 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2464 removed or added to an existing machine
2465 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2466 difference host, via ssh
2467 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2468 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2469 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2470 question
2471 - "machinectl history"
2472 - "machinectl diff"
2473 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2474 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2475
2476 * udev:
2477 - move to LGPL
2478 - kill scsi_id
2479 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2480 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2481 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2482 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2483
2484 * coredump:
2485 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2486 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2487 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2488
2489 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2490
2491 * tmpfiles:
2492 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2493 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2494 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2495 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2496 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2497 calls follow symlinks.
2498 - add --test mode
2499 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2500 project quota
2501 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2502 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2503 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2504
2505 * udev-link-config:
2506 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2507 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2508 on Path= matching
2509
2510 * sd-rtnl:
2511 - add support for more attribute types
2512 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2513
2514 * networkd:
2515 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2516 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2517 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2518 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2519 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2520 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2521 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2522 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2523 - expose in the API the following bits:
2524 - option 15, domain name
2525 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2526 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2527 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2528 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2529 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2530 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2531 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2532 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2533
2534 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2535
2536 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2537
2538 * dhcp:
2539 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2540
2541 * dhcp6:
2542 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2543 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2544 - write more test cases
2545 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2546 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2547 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2548 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2549 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2550 or interface down
2551 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2552 this behavior
2553 - RouteTable= ?
2554
2555 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2556 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2557 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)