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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 Deprecations and removals:
88
89 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
93
94 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
99 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
101 is only supported for such old kernels.
102
103 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
106 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
112 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
114
115 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
118 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
120
121 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
123 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
127 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
130 Features:
131
132 * use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
133 without the other)
134
135 * in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
136 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
137 sd-stub, explicitly.
138
139 * open up creds for uses in generators, and document clearly that encrypted
140 creds are only supported if strictly tpm bound, but not when using the host
141 secret (as that is only avilable if /var/ is around.
142
143 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
144 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
145 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
146 namespaces)
147
148 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
149 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
150
151 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
152 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
153 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
154
155 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
156 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
157 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
158
159 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
160 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
161 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
162 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
163 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
164 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
165
166 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
167 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
168 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
169 used transiently, never persistently.
170
171 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
172 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
173 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
174 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
175 based on lo_file_name.
176
177 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
178
179 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
180 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
181 cursors as they happen.
182
183 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
184 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
185 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
186 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
187 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
188 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
189 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
190 activation-by-message id and similar.
191
192 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
193 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
194 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
195 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
196
197 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
198 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
199 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
200 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
201 similar behaviour for system services, too.
202
203 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
204 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
205 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
206
207 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
208
209 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
210 localed, oomd, timedated.
211
212 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
213 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
214 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
215 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
216 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
217 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
218 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
219 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
220 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
221
222 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
223 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
224 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
225
226 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
227 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
228 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
229 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
230 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
231 signed by U.
232 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
233 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
234 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
235 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
236 next boot
237 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
238 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
239 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
240 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
241 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
242 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
243 later boot.
244 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
245 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
246 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
247 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
248 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
249
250 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
251 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
252 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
253 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
254 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
255 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
256 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
257 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
258 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
259 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
260 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
261 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
262 access.
263
264 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
265 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
266 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
267 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
268 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
269 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
270 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
271 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
272 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
273 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
274
275 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
276 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
277
278 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
279 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
280 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
281 for all umh processes.
282
283 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
284 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
285
286 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
287 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
288 resize.
289
290 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
291 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
292
293 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
294 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
295 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
296 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
297 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
298 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
299
300 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
301 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
302 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
303 records, to be able to order them.
304
305 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
306 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
307 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
308 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
309 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
310 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
311 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
312 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
313 system actually reset.
314
315 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
316 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
317 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
318
319 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
320 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
321 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
322 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
323
324 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
325 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
326 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
327 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
328
329 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
330 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
331 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
332 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
333 which isn't quite the same.
334
335 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
336 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
337 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
338 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
339 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
340
341 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
342 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
343 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
344 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
345 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
346
347 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
348
349 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
350 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
351 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
352 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
353
354 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
355
356 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
357 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
358
359 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
360 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
361 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
362
363 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
364 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
365
366 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
367 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
368 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
369 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
370 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
371 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
372 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
373 usual.
374
375 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
376
377 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
378
379 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
380
381 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
382 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
383 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
384 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
385 sockaddr.
386
387 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
388 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
389 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
390 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
391 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
392 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
393 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
394 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
395 try to use inode from there.
396
397 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
398 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
399
400 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
401 extensions
402
403 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
404 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
405 for the root fs or /usr/.
406
407 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
408 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
409 combination thereof.
410
411 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
412 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
413 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
414 ahead of time.
415
416 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
417 aforementioned purpose.
418
419 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
420 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
421
422 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
423 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
424 to figure out:
425 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
426 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
427 subsequent boots?
428
429 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
430 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
431 inspiration from IMA log)
432
433 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
434 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
435 out to our tools.
436
437 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
438 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
439 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
440 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
441 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
442 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
443 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
444 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
445 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
446 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
447
448 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
449 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
450 used)
451
452 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
453 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
454 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
455 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
456 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
457
458 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
459 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
460 how PCR values we manage came to
461 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
462
463 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
464 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
465 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
466 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
467 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
468 should win over vendor defaults.
469
470 * sd-stub: optionally allow users to configure manual kernel command line even
471 in SecureBoot by authenticating it via shim's APIs, integrating with MOK and
472 similar: instead of authenticating just PE code shim should be capable of
473 authenticating any kind of data for us, including files containing kernel
474 command lines.
475
476 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
477 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
478 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
479
480 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
481 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
482
483 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
484 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
485 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
486 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
487 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
488 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
489
490 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
491 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
492 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
493
494 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
495
496 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
497 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
498 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
499 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
500
501 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
502 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
503 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
504 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
505 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
506 only one for each OS.
507
508 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
509 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
510 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
511 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
512 boot, for the next.
513
514 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
515 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
516
517 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
518 similar behind it, instead of http.
519
520 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
521 boot, or on first boot.
522
523 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
524 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
525
526 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
527 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
528 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
529 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
530 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
531 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
532 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
533 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
534 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
535 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
536 until users are allowed to log in).
537
538 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
539 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
540
541 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
542 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
543 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
544 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
545 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
546 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
547 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
548 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
549 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
550 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
551 automatically invalidated outside of it.
552
553 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
554 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
555 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
556 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
557 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
558 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
559 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
560 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
561 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
562 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
563 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
564 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
565 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
566 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
567 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
568 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
569 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
570 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
571 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
572 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
573 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
574
575 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
576 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
577
578 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
579 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
580
581 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
582 instead of manual blocking.
583
584 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
585 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
586
587 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
588 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
589 supplied password.
590
591 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
592 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
593 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
594 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
595
596 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
597 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
598 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
599 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
600
601 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
602 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
603 automatically derived from --private-key=).
604
605 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
606 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
607 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
608
609 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
610 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
611 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
612 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
613 partition with a portable service partition in one.
614
615 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
616 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
617 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
618 modules
619
620 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
621 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
622 a new name with a built-in config?
623
624 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
625 maybe on kernel command line:
626 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
627 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
628
629 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
630 hash type, etc)
631
632 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
633 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
634
635 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
636 but final node is not a directory
637
638 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
639 non-VFAT fs is used.
640
641 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
642
643 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
644 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
645
646 * pick up creds from EFI vars
647
648 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
649
650 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
651 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
652 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
653 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
654 affect PCR values.
655
656 * systemd-measure tool:
657 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
658
659 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
660 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
661
662 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
663 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
664
665 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
666 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
667
668 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
669 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
670
671 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
672 maybe some other stuff and boots it
673
674 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
675 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
676 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
677 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
678 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
679 use it.
680
681 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
682 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
683
684 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
685 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
686 what it was signed.
687
688 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
689 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
690 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
691 be safely written to disk, then.
692
693 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
694 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
695 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
696 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
697 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
698 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
699 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
700 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
701 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
702 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
703 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
704 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
705
706 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
707 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
708
709 * Process credentials in:
710 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
711 via the credentials logic.
712 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
713 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
714 integrity-generator)
715 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
716 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
717 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
718 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
719 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
720 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
721 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
722 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
723 file system paths to enable on start.
724 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
725 usr=
726 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
727 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
728 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
729 account one can directly log into.
730 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
731 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
732 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
733 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
734 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
735 pre-built kernels.
736
737 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
738 runtime state. Then, expose it:
739
740 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
741 about the unit.
742 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
743 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
744 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
745 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
746 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
747 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
748
749 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
750 what to do if support ended
751
752 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
753 login time, à la motd
754
755 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
756 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
757 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
758 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
759 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
760
761 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
762 initrd transition. Specifically:
763 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
764 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
765 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
766
767 * implement varlink introspection
768
769 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
770 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
771 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
772 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
773 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
774 depending on desired level of persistency.
775
776 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
777 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
778 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
779 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
780 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
781 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
782 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
783 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
784
785 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
786 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
787 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
788 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
789
790 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
791
792 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
793
794 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
795 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
796 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
797 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
798 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
799 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
800 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
801 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
802 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
803 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
804 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
805 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
806 not unprivileged code.
807
808 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
809 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
810
811 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
812 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
813 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
814 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
815
816 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
817 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
818 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
819 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
820 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
821 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
822 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
823 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
824 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
825
826 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
827 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
828 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
829 order.
830
831 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
832 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
833 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
834 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
835 whenever they want.
836
837 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
838 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
839 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
840
841 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
842 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
843 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
844 acquire.
845
846 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
847 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
848 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
849 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
850 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
851 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
852 IN_IGNORED again)
853
854 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
855 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
856 virtio-fs.
857
858 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
859 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
860 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
861 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
862 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
863 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
864 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
865 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
866 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
867 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
868 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
869 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
870 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
871
872 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
873 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
874 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
875
876 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
877 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
878 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
879 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
880 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
881 directly to host service manager.
882
883 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
884 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using SMBIOS
885 credentials to configure socket address.
886
887 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
888
889 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
890 no api to query the device id
891
892 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
893 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
894 also be queried.
895
896 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
897 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
898 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
899 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
900
901 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
902 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
903 latter).
904
905 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
906
907 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
908
909 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
910 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
911 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
912 generated by GNU sha256sums.
913
914 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
915 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
916 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
917 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
918 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
919 UEFI HTTP boot.
920
921 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
922 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
923 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
924 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
925 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
926 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
927 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
928 hence cheap for enumeration.
929
930 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
931
932 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
933 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
934 words: show partition labels).
935
936 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
937 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
938 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
939 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
940 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
941 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
942 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
943
944 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
945
946 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
947
948 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
949
950 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
951 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
952 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
953 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
954 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
955 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
956 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
957 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
958 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
959 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
960
961 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
962 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
963 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
964 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
965 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
966 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
967 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
968 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
969 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
970 an NTP sync is acquired.
971
972 * kernel-install:
973 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
974
975 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
976 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
977
978 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
979 jobs, units
980
981 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
982 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
983 userspace)
984
985 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
986
987 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
988 json package metadata, and use that when logging
989
990 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
991 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
992
993 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
994 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
995
996 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
997 internal clock.
998
999 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1000 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1001
1002 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1003 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1004 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1005 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1006
1007 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1008 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1009 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1010
1011 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1012 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1013 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1014 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1015 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1016 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1017 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1018 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1019 thread:
1020 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1021 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1022 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1023 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1024 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1025 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1026
1027 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1028 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1029 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1030
1031 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1032 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1033 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1034 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1035 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1036 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1037 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1038 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1039 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1040 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1041 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1042 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1043 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1044 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1045 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1046
1047 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1048 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1049 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1050 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1051 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1052 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1053
1054 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1055 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1056 dep in the base OS image)
1057
1058 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1059 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1060 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1061 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1062 on-disk storage.
1063
1064 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1065 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1066 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1067 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1068 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1069
1070 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1071 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1072 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1073
1074 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1075 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1076 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1077 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1078 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1079 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1080 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1081
1082 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1083 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1084 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1085 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1086
1087 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1088 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1089 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1090 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1091 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1092 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1093 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1094 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1095 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1096 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1097 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1098
1099 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1100 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1101 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1102
1103 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1104
1105 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1106
1107 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1108 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1109 that images cannot be misused.
1110
1111 * New udev block device symlink names:
1112 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1113 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1114 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1115 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1116
1117 * sysupdate:
1118 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1119 - support casync as download mechanism
1120 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1121 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1122 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1123 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1124 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1125 override the host's update files.)
1126 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1127 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1128 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1129 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1130
1131 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1132
1133 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1134 make dirs appear under right UID.
1135
1136 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1137 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1138
1139 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1140 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1141 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1142 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1143 for doing that.
1144
1145 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1146 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1147 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1148 already have it.
1149
1150 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1151 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1152
1153 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1154
1155 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1156 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1157 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1158 /proc/self/fd/3
1159
1160 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1161 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1162 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1163
1164 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1165 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1166
1167 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1168 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1169
1170 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1171 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1172 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1173 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1174 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1175
1176 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1177
1178 * credentials system:
1179 - acquire from EFI variable?
1180 - acquire via ask-password?
1181 - acquire creds via keyring?
1182 - pass creds via keyring?
1183 - pass creds via memfd?
1184 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1185 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1186 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1187 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1188 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1189 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1190 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1191 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1192
1193 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1194 firmware indicates there is one.
1195
1196 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1197 and such
1198
1199 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1200
1201 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1202
1203 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1204 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1205
1206 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1207 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1208
1209 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1210
1211 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1212 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1213
1214 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1215 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1216
1217 * cryptsetup:
1218 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1219 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1220
1221 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1222 it happens to be set up alright already.
1223
1224 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1225
1226 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1227 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1228 default.
1229
1230 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1231 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1232 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1233 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1234 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1235
1236 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1237
1238 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1239 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1240
1241 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1242 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1243
1244 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1245 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1246
1247 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1248
1249 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1250
1251 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1252
1253 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1254
1255 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1256 when it exits
1257
1258 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1259 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1260 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1261 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1262 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1263 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1264 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1265 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1266 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1267
1268 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1269 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1270 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1271
1272 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1273 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1274
1275 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1276
1277 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1278 specific service
1279
1280 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1281 exists and responds.
1282
1283 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1284 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1285
1286 * unify on openssl:
1287 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1288 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1289 gnutls
1290 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1291
1292 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1293 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1294
1295 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1296 realname substr searches in varlink API
1297
1298 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1299
1300 * userdb: allow existence checks
1301
1302 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1303
1304 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1305 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1306 initrd had set.
1307
1308 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1309 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1310 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1311 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1312 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1313 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1314
1315 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1316 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1317 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1318
1319 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1320 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1321 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1322 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1323 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1324 source.
1325
1326 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1327 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1328 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1329
1330 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1331
1332 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1333 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1334 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1335 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1336 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1337 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1338 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1339 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1340 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1341 hibernation mode. (see
1342 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1343 section 10.2.2.8 and
1344 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1345 at the end).
1346
1347 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1348 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1349
1350 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1351
1352 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1353 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1354 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1355 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1356 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1357 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1358 exec().
1359
1360 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1361
1362 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1363 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1364
1365 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1366 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1367
1368 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1369 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1370 root.
1371
1372 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1373 is issued.
1374
1375 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1376
1377 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1378
1379 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1380 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1381 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1382
1383 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1384 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1385 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1386
1387 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1388
1389 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1390 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1391
1392 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1393 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1394 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1395 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1396
1397 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1398
1399 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1400 log.c and sd-journal-send
1401
1402 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1403
1404 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1405
1406 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1407 non-zero "tries done" count
1408
1409 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1410 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1411 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1412 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1413 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1414 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1415 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1416 CODE_FILE.
1417
1418 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1419 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1420 some explanatory text online.
1421
1422 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1423
1424 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1425 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1426
1427 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1428 Specifically:
1429
1430 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1431 properly)
1432 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1433 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1434
1435 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1436 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1437
1438 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1439 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1440 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1441 files and suchlike we operate on.
1442
1443 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1444
1445 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1446
1447 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1448 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1449
1450 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1451 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1452
1453 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1454 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1455 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1456 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1457 unlinked from any dir.
1458
1459 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1460
1461 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1462
1463 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1464
1465 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1466 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1467 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1468 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1469 should reflink the image file itself.
1470
1471 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1472 specific paths only like this.
1473
1474 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1475 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1476 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1477 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1478 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1479
1480 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1481
1482 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1483
1484 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1485 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1486
1487 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1488 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1489 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1490 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1491 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1492 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1493 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1494 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1495
1496 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1497 for root, but only then.
1498
1499 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1500 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1501
1502 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1503 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1504
1505 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1506 only when used. Add unit tests.
1507
1508 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1509 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1510
1511 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1512 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1513 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1514 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1515 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1516
1517 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1518
1519 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1520
1521 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1522 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1523
1524 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1525
1526 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1527
1528 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1529 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1530
1531 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1532 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1533 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1534 ID is available.
1535
1536 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1537 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1538 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1539
1540 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1541 parameters
1542
1543 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1544 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1545 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1546 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1547 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1548 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1549 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1550
1551 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1552 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1553
1554 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1555 about it in the resource log message
1556
1557 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1558 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1559 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1560
1561 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1562 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1563
1564 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1565
1566 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1567 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1568 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1569
1570 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1571 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1572
1573 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1574 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1575 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1576 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1577 natural habitat.
1578
1579 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1580 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1581
1582 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1583 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1584 relative to the configured default value.
1585
1586 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1587
1588 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1589
1590 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1591
1592 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1593
1594 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1595
1596 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1597
1598 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1599
1600 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1601
1602 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1603 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1604 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1605
1606 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1607 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1608
1609 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1610
1611 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1612 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1613 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1614 mapping to work.
1615
1616 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1617
1618 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1619
1620 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1621
1622 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1623 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1624
1625 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1626 reload the unit file anyway
1627
1628 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1629
1630 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1631
1632 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1633 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1634
1635 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1636 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1637 specifications.
1638
1639 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1640
1641 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1642
1643 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1644 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1645 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1646 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1647
1648 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1649
1650 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1651
1652 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1653 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1654 state.
1655 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1656
1657 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1658 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1659 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1660 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1661 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1662
1663 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1664
1665 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1666 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1667
1668 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1669 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1670
1671 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1672 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1673
1674 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1675
1676 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1677 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1678
1679 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1680
1681 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1682
1683 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1684
1685 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1686
1687 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1688 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1689
1690 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1691
1692 * resolved:
1693 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1694 - service registration
1695 - service/domain/types browsing
1696 - avahi compat
1697 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1698 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1699 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1700 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1701 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1702 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1703
1704 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1705
1706 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1707
1708 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1709
1710 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1711
1712 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1713
1714 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1715 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1716
1717 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1718
1719 * gpt-auto-generator:
1720 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1721 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1722
1723 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1724 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1725 when it is otherwise off
1726
1727 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1728
1729 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1730 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1731 for ReusePort=
1732
1733 * cgroups:
1734 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1735 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1736 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1737 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1738 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1739 the hierarchies of child processes
1740 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1741 maybe use them for user@.service
1742
1743 * transient units:
1744 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1745
1746 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1747
1748 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1749
1750 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1751
1752 * 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
1753
1754 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1755
1756 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1757 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1758 path anyway.
1759
1760 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1761
1762 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1763
1764 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1765
1766 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1767
1768 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1769
1770 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1771
1772 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1773 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1774 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1775
1776 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1777 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1778
1779 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1780
1781 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1782
1783 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1784
1785 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1786 needs to be auto-respawned?
1787
1788 * pid1:
1789 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1790 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1791 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1792 that are not supported...
1793 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1794 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1795 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1796 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1797 - move PAM code into its own binary
1798 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1799 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1800 - Support --test based on current system state
1801 - 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().
1802 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1803 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1804 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1805 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1806 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1807 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1808 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1809 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1810 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1811 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1812 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1813 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1814
1815 * unit files:
1816 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1817 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1818 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1819 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1820 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1821 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1822 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1823 - introduce Type=pid-file
1824 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1825 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1826 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1827
1828 * timer units:
1829 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1830 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1831
1832 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1833
1834 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1835
1836 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1837
1838 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1839
1840 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1841
1842 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1843
1844 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1845
1846 * test/:
1847 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1848
1849 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1850 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1851 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1852 destination.
1853
1854 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1855 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1856
1857 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1858
1859 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1860 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1861 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1862
1863 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1864 compliant boot loader is installed.
1865
1866 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1867 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1868 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1869 that automatically.
1870
1871 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1872
1873 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1874
1875 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1876
1877 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1878
1879 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1880
1881 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1882
1883 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1884
1885 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1886
1887 * sd-bus:
1888 - EBADSLT handling
1889 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1890 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1891 - 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
1892 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1893 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1894 - longer term: priority inheritance
1895 - dbus spec updates:
1896 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1897 - path escaping
1898 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1899
1900 * sd-event
1901 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1902 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1903 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1904 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1905 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1906 here:
1907 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1908
1909 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1910 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1911
1912 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1913
1914 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1915
1916 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1917
1918 * EFI:
1919 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1920 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1921 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1922 * bootctl
1923 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1924
1925 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1926
1927 * bootctl:
1928 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1929 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1930 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1931
1932 * logind:
1933 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1934 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1935 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1936 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1937 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1938 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1939 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1940 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1941 needs setuid().
1942 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1943 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1944 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1945 complete.
1946 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1947 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1948 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1949 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1950 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1951 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1952 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1953 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1954 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1955 relogins
1956 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1957 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1958 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1959 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1960
1961 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1962
1963 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1964 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1965 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1966
1967 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1968 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1969
1970 * journal:
1971 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1972 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1973 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1974 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1975 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1976 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1977 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1978 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1979 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1980 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1981 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1982 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1983 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1984 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1985 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1986 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
1987 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
1988 - 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.
1989 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
1990 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
1991 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
1992 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
1993 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
1994 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
1995 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
1996 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
1997 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
1998 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
1999 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2000 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2001 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2002 to syslog when it works again.
2003 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2004 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2005 journals in.
2006 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2007 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2008 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2009 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2010 the most common operations.
2011 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2012 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2013 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2014 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2015 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2016 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2017 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2018 operation.
2019 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2020 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2021 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2022 binary logs data
2023 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2024 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2025 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2026 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2027 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2028 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2029
2030 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2031 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2032
2033 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2034 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2035 validated via TPM.
2036
2037 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2038 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2039
2040 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2041 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2042 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2043
2044 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2045 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2046 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2047 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2048 cgroup.
2049
2050 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2051 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2052 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2053 logging.
2054
2055 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2056
2057 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2058 from the SIGBUS handler
2059
2060 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2061 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2062 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2063 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2064
2065 * homed:
2066 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2067 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2068 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2069 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2070 - create on activate?
2071 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2072 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2073 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2074 systemd --user is shut down.
2075 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2076 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2077 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2078 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2079 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2080 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2081 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2082 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2083 - query password from kernel keyring first
2084 - update even if record is "absent"
2085 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2086 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2087 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2088 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2089 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2090 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2091 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2092 doesn't mean user B sees it
2093 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2094 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2095 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2096 signature
2097 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2098 and insert a local signature instead.
2099 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2100 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2101 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2102 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2103 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2104 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2105 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2106 easily?
2107 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2108 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2109 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2110 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2111 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2112 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2113 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2114 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2115 can easily set overall quota for all users
2116 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2117 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2118 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2119 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2120 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2121 large.
2122
2123 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2124 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2125 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2126
2127 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2128
2129 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2130 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2131 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2132 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2133
2134 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2135
2136 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2137 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2138 something goes wrong on the way.
2139
2140 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2141
2142 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2143 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2144 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2145 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2146
2147 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2148 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2149 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2150 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2151 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2152 automatically.
2153
2154 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2155 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2156
2157 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2158 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2159 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2160 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2161 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2162 fails to apply use the latter.
2163
2164 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2165 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2166
2167 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2168 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2169
2170 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2171 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2172 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2173
2174 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2175 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2176
2177 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2178 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2179 during boot.
2180
2181 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2182
2183 * document:
2184 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2185 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2186 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2187 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2188 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2189 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2190 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2191 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2192 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2193 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2194 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2195 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2196
2197 * systemctl:
2198 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2199 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2200 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2201 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2202 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2203 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2204 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2205 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2206 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2207 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2208
2209 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2210 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2211 it should skip the variant type string though.
2212
2213 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2214 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2215 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2216
2217 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2218 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2219 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2220
2221 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2222 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2223
2224 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2225 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2226 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2227 do, for example)
2228
2229 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2230 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2231 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2232 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2233
2234 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2235
2236 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2237
2238 * unit install:
2239 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2240 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2241
2242 * nspawn:
2243 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2244 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2245 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2246 from the kernel's logs.
2247 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2248 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2249 interface be missing
2250 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2251 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2252 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2253 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2254 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2255 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2256 PID 1...
2257 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2258 running, remove them when shut down.
2259 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2260 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2261 startup.
2262 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2263 or so, freeze the payload too.
2264 - support time namespaces
2265 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2266 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2267 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2268 "machinectl shell"
2269 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2270 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2271 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2272 - greater control over selinux label?
2273 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2274 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2275 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2276 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2277 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2278 host TPM.
2279 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2280 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2281 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2282 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2283 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2284 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2285 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2286 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2287 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2288 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2289 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2290 or two sockets.
2291 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2292
2293 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2294 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2295 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2296 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2297 anything like that.
2298
2299 * machined:
2300 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2301 removed or added to an existing machine
2302 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2303 difference host, via ssh
2304 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2305 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2306 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2307 question
2308 - "machinectl history"
2309 - "machinectl diff"
2310 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2311 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2312
2313 * udev:
2314 - move to LGPL
2315 - kill scsi_id
2316 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2317 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2318 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2319 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2320
2321 * coredump:
2322 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2323 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2324 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2325
2326 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2327
2328 * tmpfiles:
2329 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2330 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2331 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2332 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2333 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2334 calls follow symlinks.
2335 - add --test mode
2336 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2337 project quota
2338 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2339 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2340 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2341
2342 * udev-link-config:
2343 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2344 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2345 on Path= matching
2346
2347 * sd-rtnl:
2348 - add support for more attribute types
2349 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2350
2351 * networkd:
2352 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2353 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2354 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2355 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2356 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2357 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2358 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2359 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2360 - expose in the API the following bits:
2361 - option 15, domain name
2362 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2363 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2364 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2365 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2366 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2367 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2368 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2369 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2370
2371 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2372
2373 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2374
2375 * dhcp:
2376 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2377
2378 * dhcp6:
2379 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2380 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2381 - write more test cases
2382 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2383 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2384 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2385 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2386 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2387 or interface down
2388 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2389 this behavior
2390 - RouteTable= ?