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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_symlinks() 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 Deprecations and removals:
88
89 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
93
94 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
99 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
101 is only supported for such old kernels.
102
103 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
106 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
112 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
114
115 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
118 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
120
121 * ~2023: remove support for TPM_PCR_INDEX_KERNEL_PARAMETERS_COMPAT
122
123 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
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 Features:
130
131 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
132 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
133 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
134 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
135 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
136 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
137 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
138 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
139 system actually reset.
140
141 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
142 userspace to allow ordering boots. The counter would be monotonically
143 increased on every boot.
144
145 * systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
146 image policy by default
147
148 * systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
149 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
150
151 * gpt-auto-generator: generate device names via /dev/disk/by-diskseq/ to pin
152 the medium
153
154 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
155 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
156 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
157 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
158
159 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
160 lines. THen, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
161 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
162 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
163
164 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
165 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
166 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
167 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
168 which isn't quite the same.
169
170 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
171 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
172 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
173 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
174 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
175
176 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
177 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
178 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
179 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
180 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
181
182 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
183
184 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
185 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
186 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
187 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
188
189 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
190
191 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
192 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
193
194 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
195 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
196 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
197
198 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
199 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
200
201 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
202 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
203 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
204 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
205 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
206 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
207 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
208 usual.
209
210 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
211
212 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
213
214 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
215
216 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
217 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
218 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
219 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
220 sockaddr.
221
222 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
223 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
224 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
225 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
226 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
227 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
228 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
229 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
230 try to use inode from there.
231
232 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
233 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
234
235 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
236 extensions
237
238 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
239 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
240 for the root fs or /usr/.
241
242 * extend systemd-measure with an --append= mode when signing expected PCR
243 measurements. In this mode the tool should read an existing signature JSON
244 object (which primarily contains an array with the actual signature data),
245 and then append the new signature to it instead of writing out an entirely
246 JSON object. Usecase: it might make sense to to sign a UKI's expected PCRs
247 with different keys for different boot phases. i.e. use keypair X for signing
248 the expected PCR in the initrd boot phase and keypair Y for signing the
249 expected PCR in the main boot phase. Via the --append logic we could merge
250 these signatures into one object, and then include the result in the UKI.
251 Then, if you bind a LUKS volume to public key X it really only can be
252 unlocked during early boot, and you bind a LUKS volume to public key Y it
253 really only can be unlocked during later boot, and so on.
254
255 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
256 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
257 combination thereof.
258
259 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
260 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
261 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
262 ahead of time.
263
264 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
265 aforementioned purpose.
266
267 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
268 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
269
270 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
271 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
272 to figure out:
273 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
274 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
275 subsequent boots?
276
277 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
278 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
279 inspiration from IMA log)
280
281 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
282 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
283 out to our tools.
284
285 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
286 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
287 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
288 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
289 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
290 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
291 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
292 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
293 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
294 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
295
296 * move discoverable partition spec and boot loader spec over to uapi group
297
298 * maybe measure UUIDs of important mounted file systems (after mount, via the
299 new ioctls to query them) into PCR 15? Add "x-systemd.measure-pcr=" or so for
300 this that pulls in a per mount service?
301
302 * measure /etc/machine-id during early boot into PCR 15?
303
304 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
305 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
306 used)
307
308 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
309 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
310 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
311 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
312 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
313
314 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
315 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
316 how PCR values we manage came to
317 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
318
319 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
320 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
321 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
322 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
323 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
324 should win over vendor defaults.
325
326 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
327 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
328 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
329 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
330 command lines.
331
332 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
333 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
334 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
335
336 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
337 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
338
339 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
340 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
341 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
342 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
343 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
344 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
345
346 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
347 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
348 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
349
350 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
351
352 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
353 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
354 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
355 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
356
357 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
358 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
359 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
360 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
361 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
362 only one for each OS.
363
364 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
365 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
366 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
367 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
368 boot, for the next.
369
370 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
371 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
372
373 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
374 similar behind it, instead of http.
375
376 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
377 boot, or on first boot.
378
379 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
380 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
381
382 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
383 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
384 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
385 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
386 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
387 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
388 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
389 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
390 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
391 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
392 until users are allowed to log in).
393
394 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
395 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
396
397 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
398 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
399 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
400 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
401 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
402 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
403 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
404 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
405 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
406 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
407 automatically invalidated outside of it.
408
409 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
410 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
411 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
412 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
413 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
414 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
415 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
416 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
417 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
418 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
419 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
420 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
421 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
422 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
423 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
424 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
425 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
426 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
427 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
428 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
429 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
430
431 * Always measure the LUKS rootfs volume key into PCR 15, and derive the machine
432 ID from it securely. This would then allow us to bind secrets a specific
433 system securely.
434
435 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
436 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
437
438 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
439 instead of manual blocking.
440
441 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
442 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
443
444 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
445 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
446 supplied password.
447
448 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
449 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
450 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
451 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
452
453 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
454 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
455 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
456 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
457
458 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
459 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
460 automatically derived from --private-key=).
461
462 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
463
464 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
465
466 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
467 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
468 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
469
470 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
471 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
472 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
473 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
474 partition with a portable service partition in one.
475
476 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
477 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
478 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
479 modules
480
481 * for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
482 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
483 a new name with a built-in config?
484
485 * gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
486 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
487
488 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
489 maybe on kernel command line:
490 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
491 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
492
493 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
494 hash type, etc)
495
496 * chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
497 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
498
499 * chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
500 but final node is not a directory
501
502 * chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
503 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
504
505 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
506 non-VFAT fs is used.
507
508 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
509
510 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
511 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
512
513 * pick up creds from EFI vars
514
515 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
516 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
517 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
518 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
519 affect PCR values.
520
521 * systemd-measure tool:
522 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
523
524 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
525 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
526
527 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
528 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
529
530 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
531 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
532
533 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
534 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
535
536 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
537 maybe some other stuff and boots it
538
539 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
540 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
541 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
542 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
543 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
544 use it.
545
546 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
547 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
548
549 * PID 1 should look for an SMBIOS variable that encodes an AF_VSOCK address it
550 should send sd_notify() ready notifications to. That way a VMM can boot up a
551 system, and generically know when it finished booting.
552
553 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
554 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
555 what it was signed.
556
557 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
558 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
559 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
560 be safely written to disk, then.
561
562 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
563 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
564 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
565 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
566 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
567 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
568 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
569 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
570 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
571 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
572 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
573 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
574
575 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
576 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
577
578 * bootctl: add "gc" verb that loads all type #1 .conf files, and then removes
579 all files from the set of files from the ESP/XBOOTLDR matching the entry
580 token that are not referenced by any. Then, change kernel-install to use only
581 this to remove auxiliary files, and never remove them explicitly. Benefit:
582 resources such as initrds/kernels/dtb can be shared between entries.
583
584 * Process credentials in:
585 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
586 via the credentials logic.
587 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
588 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
589 integrity-generator)
590 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
591 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
592 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
593 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
594 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
595 Similar, allow picking up DNS server IP addresses from credential.
596 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
597 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
598 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
599 file system paths to enable on start.
600 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
601 usr=
602 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
603 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
604 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
605 account one can directly log into.
606 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
607 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
608 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
609 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
610 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
611 pre-built kernels.
612
613 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
614 runtime state. Then, expose it:
615
616 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
617 about the unit.
618 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
619 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
620 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
621 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
622 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
623 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
624
625 * show SUPPORT_END= data in "hostnamectl" output (and thus also expose a prop
626 for this on dbus)
627
628 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
629 what to do if support ended
630
631 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
632 login time, á la motd
633
634 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
635 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
636 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
637 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
638 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
639
640 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
641 initrd transition. Specifically:
642 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
643 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
644 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
645
646 * implement varlink introspection
647
648 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
649 chase_symlinks() instead
650
651 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
652 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
653 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
654 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
655 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
656 depending on desired level of persistency.
657
658 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
659 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
660 in oneshit mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
661 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
662 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
663 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
664 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
665 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
666
667 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
668 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
669 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
670 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
671
672 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
673
674 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
675
676 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
677 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
678 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
679 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
680 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
681 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
682 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
683 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
684 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
685 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
686 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
687 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
688 not unprivileged code.
689
690 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
691 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
692
693 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
694 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
695 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
696 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
697
698 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
699 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
700 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
701 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
702 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
703 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
704 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
705 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
706 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
707
708 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
709 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
710 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
711 order.
712
713 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
714 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
715 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
716 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
717 whenever they want.
718
719 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
720 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
721 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
722
723 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
724 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
725 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
726 acquire.
727
728 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
729 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
730 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
731 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
732 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
733 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
734 IN_IGNORED again)
735
736 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
737 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
738 virtio-fs.
739
740 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
741 - make sysext run in the initrd
742 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
743 on verification if in secureboot mode
744 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
745 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
746 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
747 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
748 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
749 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
750 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
751 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
752 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
753 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
754 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
755 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
756 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
757 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
758
759 * Add a new service type very similar to Type=notify, that goes one step
760 further and extends the protocol to cover reloads. Specifically, SIGHUP will
761 become the official way to reload, and daemon has to respond with sd_notify()
762 to report when it starts reloading, and when it is complete reloading. Care
763 must be taken to remove races from this model. I.e. PID 1 needs to take
764 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, then send SIGHUP, then wait for at least one RELOADING=1
765 message that comes with a newer timestamp, then wait for a READY=1 message.
766 while we are at it, also maybe extend the logic to require handling of some
767 specific SIGRT signal for setting debug log level, that carries the level via
768 the sigqueue() data parameter. With that we extended with minimal logic the
769 service runtime logic quite substantially.
770
771 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
772 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
773 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
774
775 * beef up sd_notify() to support AV_VSOCK in $NOTIFY_SOCKET, so that VM
776 managers can get ready notifications from VMs, just like container managers
777 from their payload. Also pick up address from qemu/fw_cfg if set there.
778 (which has benefits, given SecureBoot and kernel cmdline are not necessarily
779 friends.)
780
781 * mirroring this: maybe support binding to AV_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
782 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
783 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
784 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
785 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
786 directly to host service manager.
787
788 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
789 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
790 configure socket address.
791
792 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
793
794 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
795 no api to query the device id
796
797 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
798 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
799 also be queried.
800
801 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
802 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
803 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
804 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
805
806 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
807 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
808 latter).
809
810 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
811
812 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
813
814 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
815 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
816 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
817 generated by GNU sha256sums.
818
819 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
820 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
821 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
822 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
823 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
824 UEFI HTTP boot.
825
826 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
827 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
828 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
829 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
830 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
831 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
832 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
833 hence cheap for enumeration.
834
835 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
836
837 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
838 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
839 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
840 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
841 comprehensively.
842
843 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
844 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
845 words: show partition labels).
846
847 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
848 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
849 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
850 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
851 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
852 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
853 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
854
855 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
856
857 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
858
859 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
860
861 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
862 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
863 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
864 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
865 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
866 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
867 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
868 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
869 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
870 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
871
872 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
873 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
874 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
875 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
876 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
877 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
878 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
879 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
880 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
881 an NTP sync is acquired.
882
883 * kernel-install:
884 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
885 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
886 call it at the end only
887
888 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
889 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
890
891 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
892 jobs, units
893
894 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
895 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
896 userspace)
897
898 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
899
900 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
901 json package metadata, and use that when logging
902
903 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
904 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
905
906 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
907 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
908
909 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
910 internal clock.
911
912 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
913 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
914
915 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
916 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
917 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
918 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
919
920 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
921 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
922 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
923
924 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
925 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
926 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
927 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
928 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
929 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
930 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
931 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
932 thread:
933 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
934 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
935 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
936 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
937 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
938 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
939
940 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
941 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
942 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
943
944 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
945 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
946 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
947 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
948 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
949 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
950 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
951 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
952 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
953 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
954 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
955 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
956 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
957 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
958 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
959
960 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
961 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
962 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
963 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
964 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
965 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
966
967 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
968 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
969 dep in the base OS image)
970
971 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
972 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
973
974 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
975 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
976 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
977 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
978 on-disk storage.
979
980 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
981 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
982 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
983 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
984 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
985
986 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
987 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
988 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
989
990 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
991 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
992 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
993 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
994 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
995 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
996 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
997
998 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
999 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1000 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1001 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1002
1003 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1004 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1005 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1006 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1007 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1008 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1009 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1010 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1011
1012 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1013 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1014 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
1015 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
1016 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1017 take --image= that take the same short string.
1018
1019 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1020 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1021 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1022 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1023 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1024 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1025 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1026 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1027 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1028 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1029 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1030
1031 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1032 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1033 authentication.
1034
1035 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1036 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1037 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1038
1039 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1040
1041 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1042
1043 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1044 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1045 that images cannot be misused.
1046
1047 * New udev block device symlink names:
1048 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1049 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1050 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1051 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1052
1053 * sysupdate:
1054 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1055 - support casync as download mechanism
1056 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1057 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1058 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1059 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1060 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1061 override the host's update files.)
1062 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1063 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1064 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1065 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1066
1067 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1068
1069 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1070 make dirs appear under right UID.
1071
1072 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1073 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1074
1075 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1076 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1077 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1078 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1079 for doing that.
1080
1081 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1082 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1083 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1084 already have it.
1085
1086 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1087 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1088
1089 * add an Open= setting to service unit files that can open arbitrary file
1090 system paths at service startup time and pass them to the service process via
1091 our usual socket activation protocol. If passed path refers to AF_UNIX
1092 socket: connect() to it.
1093
1094 * Similar, ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1095
1096 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1097 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1098 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1099 /proc/self/fd/3
1100
1101 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1102 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1103 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1104
1105 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1106 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1107
1108 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1109 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1110
1111 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1112 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1113 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1114 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1115 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1116
1117 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1118
1119 * credentials system:
1120 - acquire from EFI variable?
1121 - acquire via via ask-password?
1122 - acquire creds via keyring?
1123 - pass creds via keyring?
1124 - pass creds via memfd?
1125 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1126 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1127 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1128 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1129 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1130 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1131 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1132 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1133
1134 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1135 firmware indicates there is one.
1136
1137 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1138 and such
1139
1140 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1141
1142 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1143
1144 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1145 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1146
1147 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1148 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1149
1150 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1151
1152 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1153 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1154
1155 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1156 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1157
1158 * cryptsetup:
1159 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1160 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1161
1162 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1163 it happens to be set up alright already.
1164
1165 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1166
1167 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1168 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1169 default.
1170
1171 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1172 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1173 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1174 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1175 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1176
1177 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1178
1179 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1180 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1181
1182 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1183 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1184 temporary dir.
1185
1186 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1187 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1188
1189 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1190 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1191
1192 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1193
1194 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1195
1196 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1197
1198 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1199
1200 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1201 when it exits
1202
1203 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1204 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1205 - p11-kit-trust (always)
1206 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1207 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1208 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1209 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1210 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1211 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1212 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1213
1214 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1215 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1216 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1217
1218 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1219 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1220
1221 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1222
1223 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1224 specific service
1225
1226 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1227 exists and responds.
1228
1229 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1230 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1231 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1232
1233 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1234 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1235
1236 * unify on openssl:
1237 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1238 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1239 gnutls
1240 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1241
1242 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1243 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1244
1245 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1246 realname substr searches in varlink API
1247
1248 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1249
1250 * userdb: allow existence checks
1251
1252 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1253
1254 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1255 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1256 initrd had set.
1257
1258 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1259 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1260 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1261 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1262 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1263 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1264
1265 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1266 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1267 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1268
1269 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1270 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1271 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1272 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1273 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1274 source.
1275
1276 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1277 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1278 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1279
1280 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1281
1282 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1283 the hibernation
1284
1285 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1286 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1287 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1288 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1289 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1290 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1291 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1292 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1293 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1294 hibernation mode. (see
1295 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1296 section 10.2.2.8 and
1297 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1298 at the end).
1299
1300 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1301 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1302
1303 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1304
1305 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1306 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1307 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1308 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1309 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1310 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1311 exec().
1312
1313 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1314
1315 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1316 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1317
1318 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1319 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1320
1321 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1322 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1323 root.
1324
1325 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1326 is issued.
1327
1328 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1329
1330 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1331
1332 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1333 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1334 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1335
1336 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1337 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1338 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1339
1340 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1341
1342 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1343 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1344
1345 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1346 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1347 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1348 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1349
1350 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1351
1352 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1353 log.c and sd-journal-send
1354
1355 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1356
1357 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1358
1359 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1360 non-zero "tries done" count
1361
1362 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1363 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1364 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1365 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1366 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1367 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1368 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1369 CODE_FILE.
1370
1371 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1372 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1373 some explanatory text online.
1374
1375 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1376
1377 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1378 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1379
1380 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1381 Specifically:
1382
1383 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1384 properly)
1385 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1386 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1387
1388 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1389 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1390
1391 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1392 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1393 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1394 files and suchlike we operate on.
1395
1396 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1397
1398 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1399
1400 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1401 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1402
1403 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1404 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1405
1406 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1407 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1408 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1409 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1410 unlinked from any dir.
1411
1412 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1413
1414 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1415
1416 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1417
1418 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1419 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1420 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1421 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1422 should reflink the image file itself.
1423
1424 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1425 specific paths only like this.
1426
1427 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1428 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1429 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1430 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1431 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1432
1433 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1434
1435 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1436
1437 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1438 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1439
1440 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1441 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1442 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1443 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1444 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1445 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1446 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1447 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1448
1449 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1450 for root, but only then.
1451
1452 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1453
1454 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1455 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1456
1457 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1458 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1459
1460 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1461 only when used. Add unit tests.
1462
1463 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1464 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1465
1466 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1467 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1468 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1469 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1470 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1471
1472 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1473
1474 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1475 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1476 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1477
1478 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1479
1480 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1481 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1482
1483 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1484
1485 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1486
1487 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1488 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1489
1490 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1491 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1492 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1493 ID is available.
1494
1495 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1496 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1497 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1498
1499 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1500 parameters
1501
1502 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1503 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1504 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1505 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1506 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1507 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1508 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1509
1510 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1511 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1512
1513 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1514 about it in the resource log message
1515
1516 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1517 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1518 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1519
1520 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1521 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1522
1523 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1524
1525 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1526 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1527 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1528
1529 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1530 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1531
1532 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1533 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1534 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1535 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1536 natural habitat.
1537
1538 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1539 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1540
1541 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1542 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1543 relative to the configured default value.
1544
1545 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1546
1547 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1548
1549 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1550
1551 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1552
1553 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1554
1555 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1556
1557 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1558
1559 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1560
1561 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1562 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1563 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1564
1565 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1566 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1567
1568 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1569
1570 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1571 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1572 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1573 mapping to work.
1574
1575 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1576
1577 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1578
1579 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1580
1581 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1582 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1583
1584 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1585 reload the unit file anyway
1586
1587 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1588
1589 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1590
1591 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1592 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1593
1594 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1595 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1596 specifications.
1597
1598 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1599
1600 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1601
1602 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1603 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1604 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1605 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1606
1607 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1608
1609 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1610
1611 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1612 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1613 state.
1614 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1615
1616 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1617 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1618 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1619 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1620 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1621
1622 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1623
1624 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1625 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1626
1627 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1628 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1629
1630 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1631 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1632
1633 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1634
1635 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1636 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1637
1638 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1639
1640 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1641
1642 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1643
1644 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1645
1646 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1647 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1648
1649 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1650
1651 * resolved:
1652 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1653 - service registration
1654 - service/domain/types browsing
1655 - avahi compat
1656 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1657 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1658 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1659 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1660 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1661 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1662
1663 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1664
1665 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1666
1667 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1668
1669 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1670
1671 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1672
1673 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1674 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1675
1676 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1677
1678 * gpt-auto-generator:
1679 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1680 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1681
1682 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1683 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1684 when it is otherwise off
1685
1686 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1687
1688 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1689 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1690 for ReusePort=
1691
1692 * cgroups:
1693 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1694 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1695 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1696 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1697 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1698 the hierarchies of child processes
1699 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1700 maybe use them for user@.service
1701
1702 * transient units:
1703 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1704
1705 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1706
1707 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1708
1709 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1710
1711 * 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
1712
1713 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1714
1715 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1716 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1717 path anyway.
1718
1719 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1720
1721 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1722
1723 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1724
1725 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1726
1727 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1728
1729 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1730
1731 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1732 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1733 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1734
1735 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1736 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1737
1738 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1739
1740 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1741
1742 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1743
1744 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1745 needs to be auto-respawned?
1746
1747 * pid1:
1748 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1749 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1750 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1751 that are not supported...
1752 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1753 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1754 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1755 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1756 - move PAM code into its own binary
1757 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1758 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1759 - Support --test based on current system state
1760 - 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().
1761 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1762 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1763 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1764 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1765 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1766 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1767 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1768 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1769 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1770 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1771 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1772 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1773
1774 * unit files:
1775 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1776 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1777 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
1778 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1779 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1780 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1781 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1782 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1783 - introduce Type=pid-file
1784 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1785 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1786 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1787
1788 * timer units:
1789 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1790 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1791
1792 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1793
1794 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1795
1796 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1797
1798 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1799
1800 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1801
1802 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1803
1804 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1805
1806 * test/:
1807 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1808
1809 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1810 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1811 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1812 destination.
1813
1814 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1815 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1816
1817 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1818
1819 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1820 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1821 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1822
1823 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1824 compliant boot loader is installed.
1825
1826 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1827 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1828 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1829 that automatically.
1830
1831 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1832
1833 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1834
1835 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1836
1837 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1838
1839 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1840
1841 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1842
1843 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1844
1845 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1846
1847 * sd-bus:
1848 - EBADSLT handling
1849 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1850 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1851 - 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
1852 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1853 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1854 - longer term: priority inheritance
1855 - dbus spec updates:
1856 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1857 - path escaping
1858 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1859
1860 * sd-event
1861 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1862 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1863 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1864 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1865 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1866 here:
1867 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1868
1869 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1870 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1871
1872 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1873
1874 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1875
1876 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1877
1878 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1879 reading/writing files
1880
1881 * firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
1882
1883 * EFI:
1884 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1885 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1886 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1887 * bootctl
1888 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1889
1890 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1891
1892 * bootctl:
1893 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1894 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1895 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1896
1897 * kernel-install:
1898 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1899
1900 * logind:
1901 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1902 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1903 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1904 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1905 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1906 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1907 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1908 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1909 needs setuid().
1910 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1911 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1912 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1913 complete.
1914 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1915 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1916 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1917 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1918 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1919 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1920 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1921 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1922 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1923 relogins
1924 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1925 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1926 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1927 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1928
1929 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1930
1931 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1932 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1933 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1934
1935 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1936 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1937
1938 * journal:
1939 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1940 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1941 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1942 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1943 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1944 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1945 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1946 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1947 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1948 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1949 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1950 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1951 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1952 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1953 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1954 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1955 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1956 - 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.
1957 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1958 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1959 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1960 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1961 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1962 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1963 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1964 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1965 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1966 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1967 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1968 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1969 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1970 to syslog when it works again.
1971 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1972 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1973 journals in.
1974 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1975 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
1976 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
1977 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
1978 the most common operations.
1979 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
1980 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
1981 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
1982 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
1983 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
1984 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
1985 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
1986 operation.
1987 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
1988 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
1989 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
1990 binary logs data
1991 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
1992 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
1993 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
1994 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
1995 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
1996 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
1997
1998 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
1999 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2000
2001 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2002 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2003 validated via TPM.
2004
2005 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2006 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2007
2008 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2009 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2010 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2011
2012 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2013 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2014 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2015 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2016 cgroup.
2017
2018 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2019 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2020 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2021 logging.
2022
2023 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2024
2025 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2026 from the SIGBUS handler
2027
2028 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2029 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2030 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2031 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2032
2033 * homed:
2034 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2035 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2036 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2037 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2038 - create on activate?
2039 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2040 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2041 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2042 systemd --user is shut down.
2043 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2044 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2045 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2046 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2047 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2048 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2049 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2050 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2051 - query password from kernel keyring first
2052 - update even if record is "absent"
2053 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2054 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2055 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2056 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2057 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2058 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2059 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2060 doesn't mean user B sees it
2061 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2062 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2063 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2064 signature
2065 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2066 and insert a local signature instead.
2067 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2068 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2069 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2070 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2071 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2072 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2073 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2074 easily?
2075 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2076 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2077 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2078 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2079 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2080 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2081 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2082 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2083 can easily set overall quota for all users
2084 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2085 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2086 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2087 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2088 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2089 large.
2090
2091 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2092 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2093 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2094
2095 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2096
2097 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2098 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2099 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2100 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2101
2102 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2103
2104 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2105 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2106 something goes wrong on the way.
2107
2108 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2109
2110 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2111 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2112 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2113 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2114
2115 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2116 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2117 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2118 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2119 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2120 automatically.
2121
2122 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2123 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2124
2125 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2126 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2127 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2128 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2129 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2130 fails to apply use the latter.
2131
2132 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2133 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2134
2135 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2136 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2137
2138 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2139 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2140 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2141
2142 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2143 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2144
2145 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2146 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2147 during boot.
2148
2149 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2150
2151 * document:
2152 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2153 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2154 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2155 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2156 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2157 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2158 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2159 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2160 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2161 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2162 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2163 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2164
2165 * systemctl:
2166 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2167 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2168 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2169 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2170 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2171 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2172 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2173 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2174 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2175 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2176
2177 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2178 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2179 it should skip the variant type string though.
2180
2181 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2182 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2183 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2184 output for them.
2185
2186 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2187 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2188 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2189
2190 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2191 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2192 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2193
2194 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2195 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2196
2197 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2198 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2199 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2200 do, for example)
2201
2202 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2203 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2204 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2205 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2206
2207 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2208
2209 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2210
2211 * unit install:
2212 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2213 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2214
2215 * nspawn:
2216 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2217 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2218 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2219 from the kernel's logs.
2220 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2221 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2222 interface be missing
2223 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2224 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2225 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2226 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2227 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2228 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2229 PID 1...
2230 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2231 running, remove them when shut down.
2232 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2233 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2234 startup.
2235 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2236 or so, freeze the payload too.
2237 - support time namespaces
2238 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2239 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2240 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2241 "machinectl shell"
2242 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2243 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2244 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2245 - greater control over selinux label?
2246 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2247 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2248 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2249 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2250 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2251 host TPM.
2252 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2253 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2254 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2255 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2256 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2257 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2258 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2259 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2260 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2261 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2262 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2263 or two sockets.
2264 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2265
2266 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2267 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2268 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2269 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2270 anything like that.
2271
2272 * machined:
2273 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2274 removed or added to an existing machine
2275 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2276 difference host, via ssh
2277 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2278 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2279 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2280 question
2281 - "machinectl history"
2282 - "machinectl diff"
2283 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2284 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2285
2286 * udev:
2287 - move to LGPL
2288 - kill scsi_id
2289 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2290 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2291 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2292 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2293
2294 * coredump:
2295 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2296 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2297 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2298
2299 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2300
2301 * tmpfiles:
2302 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2303 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2304 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2305 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2306 calls follow symlinks.
2307 - add --test mode
2308 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2309 project quota
2310 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2311
2312 * udev-link-config:
2313 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2314 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2315 on Path= matching
2316
2317 * sd-rtnl:
2318 - add support for more attribute types
2319 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2320
2321 * networkd:
2322 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2323 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2324 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2325 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2326 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2327 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2328 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2329 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2330 - expose in the API the following bits:
2331 - option 15, domain name
2332 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2333 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2334 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2335 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2336 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2337 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2338 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2339 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2340
2341 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2342
2343 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2344
2345 * dhcp:
2346 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2347
2348 * dhcp6:
2349 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2350 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2351 - write more test cases
2352 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2353 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2354 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2355 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2356 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2357 or interface down
2358 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2359 this behavior
2360 - RouteTable= ?