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