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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 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
123 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
127 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
130 Features:
131
132 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
133 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
134 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
135
136 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
137 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
138 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
139 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
140 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
141 signed by U.
142 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
143 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
144 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
145 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
146 next boot
147 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
148 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
149 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
150 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
151 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
152 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
153 later boot.
154 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
155 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
156 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
157 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
158 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
159
160 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
161 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
162 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
163 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
164 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
165 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
166 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
167 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
168 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
169 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
170 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
171 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
172 access.
173
174 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
175 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
176 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
177 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
178 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
179 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
180 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
181 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
182 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
183 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
184
185 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
186 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
187
188 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
189 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
190 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
191 for all umh processes.
192
193 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
194 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
195
196 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
197 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
198 resize.
199
200 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
201 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
202
203 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
204 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
205 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
206 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
207 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
208 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
209
210 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
211 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
212 and new new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
213 records, to be able to order them.
214
215 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
216 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
217 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
218 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
219 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
220 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
221 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
222 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
223 system actually reset.
224
225 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
226 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
227 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
228
229 * systemd-sysext: for sysext DDIs picked up via EFI stub, set much stricter
230 image policy by default
231
232 * systemd-dissect: maybe add "--attach" and "--detach" verbs which
233 synchronously attach a DDI to a loopback device but not actually mount them.
234
235 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
236 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
237 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
238 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
239
240 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
241 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
242 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
243 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
244
245 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
246 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
247 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
248 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
249 which isn't quite the same.
250
251 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
252 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
253 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
254 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
255 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
256
257 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
258 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
259 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
260 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
261 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
262
263 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
264
265 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
266 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
267 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
268 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
269
270 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
271
272 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
273 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
274
275 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
276 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
277 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
278
279 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
280 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
281
282 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
283 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
284 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
285 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
286 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
287 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
288 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
289 usual.
290
291 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
292
293 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
294
295 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
296
297 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
298 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
299 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
300 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
301 sockaddr.
302
303 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
304 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
305 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
306 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
307 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
308 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
309 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
310 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
311 try to use inode from there.
312
313 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
314 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
315
316 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
317 extensions
318
319 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
320 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
321 for the root fs or /usr/.
322
323 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
324 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
325 combination thereof.
326
327 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
328 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
329 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
330 ahead of time.
331
332 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
333 aforementioned purpose.
334
335 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
336 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
337
338 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
339 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
340 to figure out:
341 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
342 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
343 subsequent boots?
344
345 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
346 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
347 inspiration from IMA log)
348
349 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
350 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
351 out to our tools.
352
353 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
354 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
355 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
356 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
357 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
358 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
359 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
360 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
361 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
362 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
363
364 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
365 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
366 used)
367
368 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
369 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
370 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
371 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
372 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
373
374 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
375 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
376 how PCR values we manage came to
377 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
378
379 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
380 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
381 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
382 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
383 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
384 should win over vendor defaults.
385
386 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
387 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
388 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
389 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
390 command lines.
391
392 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
393 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
394 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
395
396 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
397 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
398
399 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
400 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
401 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
402 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
403 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
404 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
405
406 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
407 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
408 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
409
410 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
411
412 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
413 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
414 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
415 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
416
417 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
418 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
419 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
420 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
421 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
422 only one for each OS.
423
424 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
425 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
426 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
427 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
428 boot, for the next.
429
430 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
431 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
432
433 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
434 similar behind it, instead of http.
435
436 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
437 boot, or on first boot.
438
439 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
440 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
441
442 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
443 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
444 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
445 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
446 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
447 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
448 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
449 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
450 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
451 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
452 until users are allowed to log in).
453
454 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
455 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
456
457 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
458 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
459 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
460 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-syscfg
461 for a central orchestrator to generate syscfg images securely that can only
462 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
463 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
464 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
465 prepare a syscfg image that can only be activated on a specific host that
466 runs a specific software in a specific time window. syscfg would be
467 automatically invalidated outside of it.
468
469 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
470 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
471 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
472 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
473 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
474 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
475 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
476 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
477 and generate a small syscfg for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
478 on each node. The syscfg would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
479 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
480 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
481 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
482 update syscfg. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
483 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
484 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
485 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
486 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
487 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via syscfg updates,
488 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
489 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
490
491 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
492 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
493
494 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
495 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
496
497 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
498 instead of manual blocking.
499
500 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
501 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
502
503 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
504 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
505 supplied password.
506
507 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
508 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
509 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
510 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
511
512 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
513 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
514 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
515 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
516
517 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
518 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
519 automatically derived from --private-key=).
520
521 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
522
523 * tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
524
525 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
526 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
527 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
528
529 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
530 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
531 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
532 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
533 partition with a portable service partition in one.
534
535 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
536 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
537 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
538 modules
539
540 * for systemd-syscfg: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
541 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
542 a new name with a built-in config?
543
544 * gpt-auto: generate mount units that reference partitions via
545 /dev/disk/by-diskseq/… so that they can't be swapped out behind our back.
546
547 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
548 maybe on kernel command line:
549 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
550 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
551
552 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
553 hash type, etc)
554
555 * chase_symlinks(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
556 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
557
558 * chase_symlinks(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
559 but final node is not a directory
560
561 * chase_symlinks(): add new flag that simply refuses all symlink use in a path,
562 then use that for accessing XBOOTLDR/ESP
563
564 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
565 non-VFAT fs is used.
566
567 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
568
569 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
570 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
571
572 * pick up creds from EFI vars
573
574 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
575 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
576 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
577 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
578 affect PCR values.
579
580 * systemd-measure tool:
581 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
582
583 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
584 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
585
586 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
587 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
588
589 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
590 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
591
592 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
593 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
594
595 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
596 maybe some other stuff and boots it
597
598 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
599 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
600 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
601 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
602 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
603 use it.
604
605 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
606 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
607
608 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
609 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
610 what it was signed.
611
612 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
613 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
614 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
615 be safely written to disk, then.
616
617 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
618 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
619 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
620 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
621 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
622 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
623 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
624 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
625 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
626 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
627 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
628 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
629
630 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
631 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
632
633 * Process credentials in:
634 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
635 via the credentials logic.
636 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
637 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
638 integrity-generator)
639 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
640 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
641 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
642 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
643 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
644 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
645 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
646 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
647 file system paths to enable on start.
648 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
649 usr=
650 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
651 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
652 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
653 account one can directly log into.
654 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
655 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
656 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
657 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
658 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
659 pre-built kernels.
660
661 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
662 runtime state. Then, expose it:
663
664 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
665 about the unit.
666 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
667 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
668 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
669 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
670 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
671 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
672
673 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
674 what to do if support ended
675
676 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
677 login time, á la motd
678
679 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
680 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
681 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
682 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
683 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
684
685 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
686 initrd transition. Specifically:
687 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
688 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
689 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
690
691 * implement varlink introspection
692
693 * we should probably drop all use of prefix_roota() and friends, and use
694 chase_symlinks() instead
695
696 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
697 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
698 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
699 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
700 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
701 depending on desired level of persistency.
702
703 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
704 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
705 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
706 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
707 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
708 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
709 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
710 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
711
712 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
713 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
714 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
715 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
716
717 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
718
719 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
720
721 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
722 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
723 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
724 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
725 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
726 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
727 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
728 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
729 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
730 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
731 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
732 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
733 not unprivileged code.
734
735 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
736 that hooks up userbdctl ssh-key stuff.
737
738 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
739 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
740 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
741 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
742
743 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
744 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
745 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
746 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
747 it. when developer mode is entered generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
748 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
749 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
750 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is only way to enter developer mode, by
751 binding it to locality/PCRs so that that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
752
753 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
754 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
755 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
756 order.
757
758 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
759 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
760 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
761 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
762 whenever they want.
763
764 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
765 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
766 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
767
768 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
769 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
770 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
771 acquire.
772
773 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
774 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
775 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
776 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
777 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
778 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
779 IN_IGNORED again)
780
781 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
782 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
783 virtio-fs.
784
785 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
786 - make sysext run in the initrd
787 - sysext should pick up sysext images from /.extra/ in the initrd, and insist
788 on verification if in secureboot mode
789 - kernel-install should be able to install pre-built unified kernel images in
790 type #2 drop-in dir in the ESP.
791 - kernel-install should be able install encrypted creds automatically for
792 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
793 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
794 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
795 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
796 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
797 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
798 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
799 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
800 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
801 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
802 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
803
804 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
805 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
806 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
807
808 * firstboot: maybe just default to C.UTF-8 locale if nothing is set, so that we
809 don't query this unnecessarily in entirely uninitialized
810 containers. (i.e. containers with empty /etc).
811
812 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
813 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
814 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
815 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
816 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
817 directly to host service manager.
818
819 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
820 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using fw_cfg to
821 configure socket address.
822
823 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
824
825 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
826 no api to query the device id
827
828 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
829 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
830 also be queried.
831
832 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
833 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
834 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
835 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
836
837 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
838 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
839 latter).
840
841 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
842
843 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
844
845 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
846 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
847 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
848 generated by GNU sha256sums.
849
850 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
851 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
852 logic: allow combining sd-boot via objcopy with kernels to enumerate, .conf
853 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
854 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
855 UEFI HTTP boot.
856
857 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
858 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
859 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
860 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
861 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
862 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
863 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
864 hence cheap for enumeration.
865
866 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
867
868 * maybe add a "syscfg" concept, that is almost entirely identical to "sysext",
869 but operates on /etc/ instead of /usr/ and /opt/. Use case would be: trusted,
870 authenticated, atomic, additive configuration management primitive: drop in a
871 configuration bundle, and activate it, so that it is instantly visible,
872 comprehensively.
873
874 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
875 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
876 words: show partition labels).
877
878 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
879 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
880 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
881 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
882 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
883 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
884 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
885
886 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
887
888 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
889
890 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
891
892 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
893 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
894 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
895 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
896 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
897 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
898 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
899 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
900 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
901 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
902
903 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
904 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
905 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
906 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
907 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
908 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
909 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
910 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
911 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
912 an NTP sync is acquired.
913
914 * kernel-install:
915 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
916 - maybe add env var that shortcuts kernel-install for installers that want to
917 call it at the end only
918
919 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
920 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
921
922 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
923 jobs, units
924
925 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
926 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
927 userspace)
928
929 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
930
931 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
932 json package metadata, and use that when logging
933
934 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
935 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
936
937 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
938 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
939
940 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
941 internal clock.
942
943 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
944 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
945
946 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
947 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
948 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
949 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
950
951 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
952 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
953 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
954
955 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
956 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
957 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
958 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
959 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
960 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
961 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
962 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
963 thread:
964 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
965 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
966 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
967 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
968 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
969 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
970
971 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
972 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
973 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
974
975 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
976 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
977 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
978 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
979 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
980 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
981 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
982 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
983 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
984 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
985 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
986 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
987 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
988 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
989 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
990
991 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
992 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
993 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
994 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
995 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
996 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
997
998 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
999 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us drop drop libcap
1000 dep in the base OS image)
1001
1002 * sysext: automatically activate sysext images dropped in via new sd-stub
1003 sysext pickup logic. (must insist on verity + signature on those though)
1004
1005 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1006 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1007 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1008 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1009 on-disk storage.
1010
1011 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1012 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1013 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1014 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1015 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1016
1017 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1018 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1019 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1020
1021 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1022 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1023 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1024 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1025 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1026 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1027 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1028
1029 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1030 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1031 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1032 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1033
1034 * add high-level lockdown level for GPT dissection logic: e.g. an enum that can
1035 be ANY (to mount anything), TRUSTED (to require that /usr is on signed
1036 verity, but rest doesn't matter), LOCKEDDOWN (to require that everything is
1037 on signed verity, except for ESP), SUPERLOCKDOWN (like LOCKEDDOWN but ESP not
1038 allowed). And then maybe some flavours of that that declare what is expected
1039 from home/srv/var… Then, add a new cmdline flag to all tools that parse such
1040 images, to configure this. Also, add a kernel cmdline option for this, to be
1041 honoured by the gpt auto generator.
1042
1043 Alternative idea: add "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=rhvs" to allow gpt-auto to
1044 only mount root dir, /home/ dir, /var/ and /srv/, but nothing else. And then
1045 minor extension to this, insisting on encryption, for example
1046 "systemd.gpt_auto_policy=r+v+h" to require encryption for root and var but not
1047 for /home/, and similar. Similar add --image-dissect-policy= to tools that
1048 take --image= that take the same short string.
1049
1050 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1051 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1052 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1053 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1054 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1055 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1056 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1057 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1058 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1059 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1060 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1061
1062 * add a "policy" to the dissection logic. i.e. a bit mask what is OK to mount,
1063 what must be read-only, what requires encryption, and what requires
1064 authentication.
1065
1066 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1067 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1068 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1069
1070 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1071
1072 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1073
1074 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1075 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1076 that images cannot be misused.
1077
1078 * New udev block device symlink names:
1079 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1080 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1081 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1082 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1083
1084 * sysupdate:
1085 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1086 - support casync as download mechanism
1087 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1088 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1089 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1090 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1091 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1092 override the host's update files.)
1093 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1094 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1095 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1096 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1097
1098 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1099
1100 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1101 make dirs appear under right UID.
1102
1103 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1104 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1105
1106 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1107 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1108 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1109 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1110 for doing that.
1111
1112 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1113 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1114 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1115 already have it.
1116
1117 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1118 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1119
1120 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1121
1122 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1123 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1124 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1125 /proc/self/fd/3
1126
1127 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1128 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1129 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1130
1131 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1132 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1133
1134 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1135 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1136
1137 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1138 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1139 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1140 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1141 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1142
1143 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1144
1145 * credentials system:
1146 - acquire from EFI variable?
1147 - acquire via via ask-password?
1148 - acquire creds via keyring?
1149 - pass creds via keyring?
1150 - pass creds via memfd?
1151 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1152 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1153 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1154 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1155 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1156 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1157 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1158 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1159
1160 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1161 firmware indicates there is one.
1162
1163 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1164 and such
1165
1166 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1167
1168 * cyptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1169
1170 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1171 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1172
1173 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1174 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1175
1176 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1177
1178 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1179 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1180
1181 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1182 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1183
1184 * cryptsetup:
1185 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1186 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1187
1188 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1189 it happens to be set up alright already.
1190
1191 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1192
1193 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1194 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1195 default.
1196
1197 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1198 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1199 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1200 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1201 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1202
1203 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1204
1205 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1206 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1207
1208 * change SwitchRoot() implementation in PID 1 to use pivot_root(".", "."), as
1209 documented in the pivot_root(2) man page, so that we can drop the /oldroot
1210 temporary dir.
1211
1212 * special case some calls of chase_symlinks() to use openat2() internally, so
1213 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1214
1215 * add a new flag to chase_symlinks() that stops chasing once the first missing
1216 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1217
1218 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1219
1220 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1221
1222 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1223
1224 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1225
1226 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1227 when it exits
1228
1229 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1230 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1231 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1232 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1233 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1234 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1235 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1236 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1237 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1238
1239 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1240 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1241 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1242
1243 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1244 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1245
1246 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1247
1248 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1249 specific service
1250
1251 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1252 exists and responds.
1253
1254 * Maybe add a separate GPT partition type to the discoverable partition spec
1255 for "hibernate" partitions, that are exactly like swap partitions but only
1256 activated right before hibernation and thus never used for regular swapping.
1257
1258 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1259 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1260
1261 * unify on openssl:
1262 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1263 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1264 gnutls
1265 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1266
1267 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1268 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1269
1270 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1271 realname substr searches in varlink API
1272
1273 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1274
1275 * userdb: allow existence checks
1276
1277 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1278
1279 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1280 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1281 initrd had set.
1282
1283 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1284 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1285 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1286 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1287 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1288 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1289
1290 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1291 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1292 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1293
1294 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1295 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1296 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1297 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1298 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1299 source.
1300
1301 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1302 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1303 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1304
1305 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1306
1307 * beef up hibernation to optionally do swapon/swapoff immediately before/after
1308 the hibernation
1309
1310 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1311 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1312 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1313 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1314 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1315 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1316 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1317 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1318 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1319 hibernation mode. (see
1320 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1321 section 10.2.2.8 and
1322 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1323 at the end).
1324
1325 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1326 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1327
1328 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1329
1330 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1331 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1332 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1333 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1334 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1335 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1336 exec().
1337
1338 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1339
1340 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1341 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1342
1343 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1344 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1345
1346 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1347 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1348 root.
1349
1350 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1351 is issued.
1352
1353 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1354
1355 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1356
1357 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1358 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1359 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1360
1361 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1362 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1363 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1364
1365 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1366
1367 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1368 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1369
1370 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1371 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1372 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1373 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1374
1375 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1376
1377 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1378 log.c and sd-journal-send
1379
1380 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1381
1382 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1383
1384 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1385 non-zero "tries done" count
1386
1387 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1388 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1389 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1390 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1391 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1392 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1393 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1394 CODE_FILE.
1395
1396 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1397 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1398 some explanatory text online.
1399
1400 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1401
1402 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1403 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1404
1405 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1406 Specifically:
1407
1408 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1409 properly)
1410 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1411 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1412
1413 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1414 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1415
1416 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1417 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1418 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1419 files and suchlike we operate on.
1420
1421 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1422
1423 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1424
1425 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1426 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1427
1428 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1429 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1430
1431 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1432 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1433 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1434 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1435 unlinked from any dir.
1436
1437 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1438
1439 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1440
1441 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1442
1443 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1444 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1445 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1446 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1447 should reflink the image file itself.
1448
1449 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1450 specific paths only like this.
1451
1452 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1453 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1454 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1455 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1456 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1457
1458 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1459
1460 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1461
1462 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1463 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1464
1465 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1466 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1467 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1468 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1469 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1470 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1471 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1472 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1473
1474 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1475 for root, but only then.
1476
1477 * be stricter with fds we receive for the fdstore: close them asynchronously
1478
1479 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1480 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1481
1482 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1483 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1484
1485 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1486 only when used. Add unit tests.
1487
1488 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1489 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1490
1491 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1492 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1493 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1494 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1495 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1496
1497 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1498
1499 * add a new RuntimeDirectoryPreserve= mode that defines a similar lifecycle for
1500 the runtime dir as we maintain for the fdstore: i.e. keep it around as long
1501 as the unit is running or has a job queued.
1502
1503 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1504
1505 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1506 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1507
1508 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1509
1510 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1511
1512 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1513 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1514
1515 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1516 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1517 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1518 ID is available.
1519
1520 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1521 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1522 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1523
1524 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1525 parameters
1526
1527 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1528 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1529 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1530 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1531 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1532 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1533 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1534
1535 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1536 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1537
1538 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1539 about it in the resource log message
1540
1541 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1542 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1543 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1544
1545 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1546 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1547
1548 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1549
1550 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1551 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1552 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1553
1554 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1555 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1556
1557 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1558 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1559 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1560 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1561 natural habitat.
1562
1563 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1564 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1565
1566 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1567 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1568 relative to the configured default value.
1569
1570 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1571
1572 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1573
1574 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1575
1576 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1577
1578 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1579
1580 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1581
1582 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1583
1584 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1585
1586 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1587 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1588 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1589
1590 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1591 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1592
1593 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1594
1595 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1596 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1597 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1598 mapping to work.
1599
1600 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1601
1602 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1603
1604 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1605
1606 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1607 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1608
1609 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1610 reload the unit file anyway
1611
1612 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1613
1614 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1615
1616 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1617 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1618
1619 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1620 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1621 specifications.
1622
1623 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1624
1625 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1626
1627 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1628 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1629 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1630 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1631
1632 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1633
1634 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1635
1636 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1637 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1638 state.
1639 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1640
1641 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1642 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1643 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1644 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1645 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1646
1647 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1648
1649 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1650 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1651
1652 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1653 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1654
1655 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1656 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1657
1658 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1659
1660 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1661 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1662
1663 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1664
1665 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1666
1667 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1668
1669 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1670
1671 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1672 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1673
1674 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1675
1676 * resolved:
1677 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1678 - service registration
1679 - service/domain/types browsing
1680 - avahi compat
1681 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1682 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1683 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1684 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1685 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1686 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1687
1688 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1689
1690 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1691
1692 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1693
1694 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1695
1696 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1697
1698 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1699 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1700
1701 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1702
1703 * gpt-auto-generator:
1704 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1705 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1706
1707 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1708 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1709 when it is otherwise off
1710
1711 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1712
1713 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1714 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1715 for ReusePort=
1716
1717 * cgroups:
1718 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1719 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1720 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1721 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1722 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1723 the hierarchies of child processes
1724 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1725 maybe use them for user@.service
1726
1727 * transient units:
1728 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1729
1730 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1731
1732 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1733
1734 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1735
1736 * 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
1737
1738 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1739
1740 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1741 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1742 path anyway.
1743
1744 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1745
1746 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1747
1748 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1749
1750 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1751
1752 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1753
1754 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1755
1756 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1757 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1758 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1759
1760 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1761 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1762
1763 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1764
1765 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1766
1767 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1768
1769 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1770 needs to be auto-respawned?
1771
1772 * pid1:
1773 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1774 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1775 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1776 that are not supported...
1777 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1778 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1779 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1780 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1781 - move PAM code into its own binary
1782 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1783 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1784 - Support --test based on current system state
1785 - 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().
1786 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1787 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1788 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1789 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1790 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1791 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1792 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1793 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1794 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1795 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1796 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1797 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1798
1799 * unit files:
1800 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1801 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1802 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1803 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1804 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1805 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1806 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1807 - introduce Type=pid-file
1808 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1809 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1810 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1811
1812 * timer units:
1813 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1814 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1815
1816 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1817
1818 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1819
1820 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1821
1822 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1823
1824 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1825
1826 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1827
1828 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1829
1830 * test/:
1831 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1832
1833 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1834 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1835 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1836 destination.
1837
1838 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1839 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1840
1841 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1842
1843 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1844 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1845 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1846
1847 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1848 compliant boot loader is installed.
1849
1850 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1851 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1852 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1853 that automatically.
1854
1855 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1856
1857 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1858
1859 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1860
1861 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1862
1863 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1864
1865 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1866
1867 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1868
1869 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1870
1871 * sd-bus:
1872 - EBADSLT handling
1873 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1874 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1875 - 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
1876 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1877 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1878 - longer term: priority inheritance
1879 - dbus spec updates:
1880 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1881 - path escaping
1882 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1883
1884 * sd-event
1885 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1886 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1887 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1888 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1889 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1890 here:
1891 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1892
1893 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1894 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1895
1896 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1897
1898 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1899
1900 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1901
1902 * systemd-firstboot: make sure to always use chase_symlinks() before
1903 reading/writing files
1904
1905 * 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
1906
1907 * EFI:
1908 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1909 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1910 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1911 * bootctl
1912 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1913
1914 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1915
1916 * bootctl:
1917 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1918 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1919 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1920
1921 * kernel-install:
1922 - optionally, support generating type #2 entries instead of type #1, including signing them
1923
1924 * logind:
1925 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1926 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1927 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1928 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1929 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1930 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1931 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1932 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1933 needs setuid().
1934 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1935 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1936 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1937 complete.
1938 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1939 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1940 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1941 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1942 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1943 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1944 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1945 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1946 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1947 relogins
1948 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1949 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1950 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1951 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1952
1953 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1954
1955 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1956 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1957 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1958
1959 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1960 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1961
1962 * journal:
1963 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1964 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1965 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1966 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1967 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1968 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1969 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1970 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1971 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1972 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1973 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1974 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1975 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1976 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1977 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1978 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1979 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1980 - 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.
1981 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1982 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1983 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1984 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1985 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1986 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1987 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1988 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1989 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1990 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1991 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
1992 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
1993 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
1994 to syslog when it works again.
1995 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
1996 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
1997 journals in.
1998 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
1999 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2000 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2001 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2002 the most common operations.
2003 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2004 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2005 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2006 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2007 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2008 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2009 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2010 operation.
2011 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2012 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2013 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2014 binary logs data
2015 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2016 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2017 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2018 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2019 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2020 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2021
2022 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2023 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2024
2025 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2026 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2027 validated via TPM.
2028
2029 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2030 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2031
2032 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2033 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2034 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2035
2036 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2037 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2038 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2039 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2040 cgroup.
2041
2042 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2043 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2044 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2045 logging.
2046
2047 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2048
2049 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2050 from the SIGBUS handler
2051
2052 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2053 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2054 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2055 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2056
2057 * homed:
2058 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2059 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2060 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2061 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2062 - create on activate?
2063 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2064 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2065 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2066 systemd --user is shut down.
2067 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2068 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2069 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2070 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2071 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2072 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2073 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2074 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2075 - query password from kernel keyring first
2076 - update even if record is "absent"
2077 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2078 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2079 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2080 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2081 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2082 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2083 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2084 doesn't mean user B sees it
2085 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2086 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2087 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2088 signature
2089 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2090 and insert a local signature instead.
2091 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2092 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2093 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2094 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2095 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2096 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2097 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2098 easily?
2099 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2100 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2101 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2102 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2103 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2104 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2105 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2106 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2107 can easily set overall quota for all users
2108 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2109 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2110 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2111 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2112 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2113 large.
2114
2115 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2116 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2117 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2118
2119 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2120
2121 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2122 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2123 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2124 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2125
2126 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2127
2128 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2129 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2130 something goes wrong on the way.
2131
2132 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2133
2134 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2135 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2136 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2137 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2138
2139 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2140 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2141 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2142 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2143 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2144 automatically.
2145
2146 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2147 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2148
2149 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2150 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2151 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2152 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2153 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2154 fails to apply use the latter.
2155
2156 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2157 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2158
2159 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2160 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2161
2162 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2163 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2164 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2165
2166 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2167 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2168
2169 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2170 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2171 during boot.
2172
2173 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2174
2175 * document:
2176 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2177 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2178 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2179 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2180 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2181 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2182 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2183 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2184 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2185 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2186 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2187 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2188
2189 * systemctl:
2190 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2191 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2192 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2193 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2194 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2195 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2196 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2197 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2198 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2199 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2200
2201 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2202 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2203 it should skip the variant type string though.
2204
2205 * add an explicit "vertical" mode to format-table, so that "systemctl
2206 status"-like outputs (i.e. with a series of field names left and values
2207 right) become genuine first class citizens, and we gain automatic, sane JSON
2208 output for them.
2209
2210 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2211 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2212 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2213
2214 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2215 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2216 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2217
2218 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2219 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2220
2221 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2222 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2223 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2224 do, for example)
2225
2226 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2227 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2228 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2229 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2230
2231 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2232
2233 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2234
2235 * unit install:
2236 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2237 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2238
2239 * nspawn:
2240 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2241 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2242 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2243 from the kernel's logs.
2244 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2245 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2246 interface be missing
2247 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2248 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2249 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2250 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2251 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2252 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2253 PID 1...
2254 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2255 running, remove them when shut down.
2256 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2257 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2258 startup.
2259 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2260 or so, freeze the payload too.
2261 - support time namespaces
2262 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2263 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2264 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2265 "machinectl shell"
2266 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2267 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2268 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2269 - greater control over selinux label?
2270 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2271 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2272 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2273 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2274 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2275 host TPM.
2276 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2277 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2278 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2279 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2280 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2281 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2282 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2283 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2284 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2285 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2286 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2287 or two sockets.
2288 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2289
2290 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2291 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2292 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2293 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2294 anything like that.
2295
2296 * machined:
2297 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2298 removed or added to an existing machine
2299 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2300 difference host, via ssh
2301 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2302 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2303 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2304 question
2305 - "machinectl history"
2306 - "machinectl diff"
2307 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2308 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2309
2310 * udev:
2311 - move to LGPL
2312 - kill scsi_id
2313 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2314 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2315 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2316 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2317
2318 * coredump:
2319 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2320 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2321 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2322
2323 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2324
2325 * tmpfiles:
2326 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2327 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2328 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2329 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2330 calls follow symlinks.
2331 - add --test mode
2332 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2333 project quota
2334 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2335
2336 * udev-link-config:
2337 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2338 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2339 on Path= matching
2340
2341 * sd-rtnl:
2342 - add support for more attribute types
2343 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2344
2345 * networkd:
2346 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2347 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2348 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2349 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2350 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2351 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2352 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2353 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2354 - expose in the API the following bits:
2355 - option 15, domain name
2356 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2357 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2358 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2359 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2360 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2361 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2362 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2363 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2364
2365 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2366
2367 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2368
2369 * dhcp:
2370 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2371
2372 * dhcp6:
2373 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2374 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2375 - write more test cases
2376 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2377 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2378 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2379 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2380 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2381 or interface down
2382 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2383 this behavior
2384 - RouteTable= ?