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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 * 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=
20
21 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
22
23 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
24
25 * register catalog database signature as file magic
26
27 * zsh shell completion:
28 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
29 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
30 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
31
32 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
33 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
34 after being started.
35
36 * write blog stories about:
37 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
38 - enabling dbus services
39 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
40 - remote access
41 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
42 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
43 - auto-restart
44 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
45 - the journal HTTP iface
46 - non-cgroup resource management
47 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
48 - refreshed, longer missions statement
49 - calendar time events
50 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
51 - how to create your own target
52 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
53 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/early boot
54
55 Regularly:
56
57 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
58
59 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
60
61 * pahole
62
63 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
64
65 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
66
67 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
68
69 Janitorial Clean-ups:
70
71 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
72 semantics, like we do for device.c now
73
74 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
75 calls instead.
76
77 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
78
79 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
80 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
81 libmount for something so trivial.
82
83 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
84 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
85 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
86
87 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
88 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
89 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
90 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
91
92 * xopenat() should pin the parent dir of the inode it creates before doing its
93 thing, so that it can create, open, label somewhat atomically.
94
95 Deprecations and removals:
96
97 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
98 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
99
100 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
101 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
102 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
103 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
104
105 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
106 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
107 is only supported for such old kernels.
108
109 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
110 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
111
112 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
113 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
114 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
115 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
116 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
117
118 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
119 baseline is 5.8.
120
121 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
122 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
123
124 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
125 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
126 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
127
128 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
129 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
130
131 Features:
132
133 * insert the new pidfs inode number as a third field into PidRef, so that
134 PidRef are reasonably serializable without having to pass around fds.
135
136 * systemd-analyze smbios11 to dump smbios type 11 vendor strings
137
138 * move documentation about our common env vars (SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL,
139 SYSTEMD_PAGER, …) into a man page of its own, and just link it from our
140 various man pages that so far embed the whole list again and again, in an
141 attempt to reduce clutter and noise a bid.
142
143 * vmspawn switch default swtpm PCR bank to SHA384-only (away from SHA256), at
144 least on 64bit archs, simply because SHA384 is typically double the hashing
145 speed than SHA256 on 64bit archs (since based on 64bit words unlike SHA256
146 which uses 32bit words).
147
148 * In vmspawn/nspawn/machined wait for X_SYSTEMD_UNIT_ACTIVE=ssh-active.target
149 and X_SYSTEMD_SIGNAL_LEVEL=2 as indication whether/when SSH and the POSIX
150 signals are available. Similar for D-Bus (but just use sockets.target for
151 that). Report as property for the machine.
152
153 * teach nspawn/machined a new bus call/verb that gets you a
154 shell in containers that have no sensible pid1, via joining the container,
155 and invoking a shell directly. Then provide another new bus call/vern that is
156 somewhat automatic: if we detect that pid1 is running and fully booted up we
157 provide a proper login shell, otherwise just a joined shell. Then expose that
158 as primary way into the container.
159
160 * make vmspawn/nspawn/importd/machined a bit more usable in a WSL-like
161 fashion. i.e. teach unpriv systemd-vmspawn/systemd-nspawn a reasonable
162 --bind-user= behaviour that mounts the calling user through into the
163 machine. Then, ship importd with a small database of well known distro images
164 along with their pinned signature keys. Then add some minimal glue that binds
165 this together: downloads a suitable image if not done so yet, starts it in
166 the bg via vmspawn/nspawn if not done so yet and then requests a shell inside
167 it for the invoking user.
168
169 * make varlink.h a public API, i.e. give all symbols an sd_ prefix, and rename
170 header file to sd-varlink.h. This of course also means we have to make json.h
171 public the same way. Convert the function param checks from assert() to
172 assert_ret(). Only export the stuff we are sure about, and keep some symbols
173 internally where things are not clear whether we want other projects to use.
174
175 * machined: allow running in a per-user instance too, to allow unpriv
176 systemd-nspawn and systemd-vmspawn do something useful. (Alternatively: open
177 up system machined to unpriv client's registering their machines, and enforce
178 they come with some prefix or suffix that clarifies they are the
179 user's. i.e. when a user registers a machine it must be called
180 foobar.<username> or so.).
181
182 * importd/…: define per-user dirs for container/VM images too.
183
184 * add a new specifier to unit files that figures out the DDI the unit file is
185 from, tracing through overlayfs, DM, loopback block device.
186
187 * importd/importctl
188 - import generator
189 - port tar handling to libarchive
190 - add varlink interface
191 - download images into .v/ dirs
192
193 * in os-release define a field that can be initialized at build time from
194 SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH (maybe even under that name?). Would then be used to
195 initialize the timestamp logic of ConditionNeedsUpdate=.
196
197 * nspawn/vmspawn/pid1: add ability to easily insert fully booted VMs/FOSC into
198 shell pipelines, i.e. add easy to use switch that turns off console status
199 output, and generates the right credentials for systemd-run-generator so that
200 a program is invoked, and its output captured, with correct EOF handling and
201 exit code propagation
202
203 * new systemd-analyze "join" verb or so, for debugging services. Would be
204 nsenter on steroids, i.e invoke a shell or command line in an environment as
205 close as we can make it for the MainPID of a service. Should be built around
206 pidfd, so that we can reasonably robustly do this. Would only cover the
207 execution environment like namespaces, but not the privilege settings.
208
209 * varlink: extend varlink IDL macros to include documentation strings
210
211 * Introduce a CGroupRef structure, inspired by PidRef. Should contain cgroup
212 path, cgroup id, and cgroup fd. Use it to continuously pin all v2 cgroups via
213 a cgroup_ref field in the CGroupRuntime structure. Eventually switch things
214 over to do all cgroupfs access only via that structure's fd.
215
216 * Get rid of the symlinks in /run/systemd/units/* and exclusively use cgroupfs
217 xattrs to convey info about invocation ids, logging settings and so on.
218 support for cgroupfs xattrs in the "trusted." namespace was added in linux
219 3.7, i.e. which we don't pretend to support anymore.
220
221 * rewrite bpf-devices in libbpf/C code, rather than home-grown BPF assembly, to
222 match bpf-restrict-fs, bpf-restrict-ifaces, bpf-socket-bind
223
224 * ditto: rewrite bpf-firewall in libbpf/C code
225
226 * credentials: if we ever acquire a secure way to derive cgroup id of socket
227 peers (i.e. SO_PEERCGROUPID), then extend the "scoped" credential logic to
228 allow cgroup-scoped (i.e. app or service scoped) credentials. Then, as next
229 step use this to implement per-app/per-service encrypted directories, where
230 we set up fscrypt on the StateDirectory= with a randomized key which is
231 stored as xattr on the directory, encrypted as a credential.
232
233 * credentials: optionally include a per-user secret in scoped user-credential
234 encryption keys. should come from homed in some way, derived from the luks
235 volume key or fscrypt directory key.
236
237 * credentials: add a flag to the scoped credentials that if set require PK
238 reauthentication when unlocking a secret.
239
240 * teach systemd --user to properly load credentials off disk, with
241 /etc/credstore equivalent and similar. Make sure that $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY=
242 actually works too when run with user privs.
243
244 * extend the smbios11 logic for passing credentials so that instead of passing
245 the credential data literally it can also just reference an AF_VSOCK CID/port
246 to read them from. This way the data doesn't remain in the SMBIOS blob during
247 runtime, but only in the credentials fs.
248
249 * machined: make machine registration available via varlink to simplify
250 nspawn/vmspawn, and to have an extensible way to register VM/machine metadata
251
252 * ssh-proxy: add support for "ssh machine/foobar" to automatically connect to
253 machined registered machine "foobar". Requires updating machined to track CID
254 and unix-export dir of containers.
255
256 * add a new ExecStart= flag that inserts the configured user's shell as first
257 word in the command line. (maybe use character '.'). Usecase: tool such as
258 run0 can use that to spawn the target user's default shell.
259
260 * varlink: figure out how to do docs for our varlink interfaces. Idea: install
261 interface files augmented with docs in /usr/share/ somewhere. And have
262 functionality in varlinkctl to merge interface info extracted from binaries
263 with interface info on disk. And store the doc strings only in the latter.
264
265 * introduce mntid_t, and make it 64bit, as apparently the kernel switched to
266 64bit mount ids
267
268 * use udev rule networkd ownership property to take ownership of network
269 interfaces nspawn creates
270
271 * mountfsd/nsresourced
272 - userdb: maybe allow callers to map one uid to their own uid
273 - bpflsm: allow writes if resulting UID on disk would be userns' owner UID
274 - make encrypted DDIs work (password…)
275 - add API for creating a new file system from scratch (together with some
276 dm-integrity/HMAC key). Should probably work using systemd-repart (access
277 via varlink).
278 - add api to make an existing file "trusted" via dm-integry/HMAC key
279 - port: portabled
280 - port: tmpfiles, sysusers and similar
281 - lets see if we can make runtime bind mounts into unpriv nspawn work
282
283 * add a kernel cmdline switch (and cred?) for marking a system to be
284 "headless", in which case we never open /dev/console for reading, only for
285 writing. This would then mean: systemd-firstboot would process creds but not
286 ask interactively, getty would not be started and so on.
287
288 * cryptsetup: new crypttab option to auto-grow a luks device to its backing
289 partition size. new crypttab option to reencrypt a luks device with a new
290 volume key.
291
292 * we probably should have some infrastructure to acquire sysexts with
293 drivers/firmware for local hardware automatically. Idea: reuse the modalias
294 logic of the kernel for this: make the main OS image install a hwdb file
295 that matches against local modalias strings, and adds properties to relevant
296 devices listing names of sysexts needed to support the hw. Then provide some
297 tool that goes through all devices and tries to acquire/download the
298 specified images.
299
300 * repart + cryptsetup: support file systems that are encrypted and use verity
301 on top. Usecase: confexts that shall be signed by the admin but also be
302 confidential. Then, add a new --make-ddi=confext-encrypted for this.
303
304 * tmpfiles: add new line type for moving files from some source dir to some
305 target dir. then use that to move sysexts/confexts and stuff from initrd
306 tmpfs to /run/, so that host can pick things up.
307
308 * tiny varlink service that takes a fd passed in and serves it via http. Then
309 make use of that in networkd, and expose some EFI binary of choice for
310 DHCP/HTTP base EFI boot.
311
312 * bootctl: add reboot-to-disk which takes a block device name, and
313 automatically sets things up so that system reboots into that device next.
314
315 * maybe: in PID1, when we detect we run in an initrd, make superblock read-only
316 early on, but provide opt-out via kernel cmdline.
317
318 * systemd-pcrextend:
319 - support measuring to nvindex with PCR update semantics ("fake PCRs")
320 - add api for "allocating" such an nvindex
321 - once we have that start measuring every sysext we apply, every confext,
322 every RootImage= we apply, every nspawn and so on. All in separate fake
323 PCRs.
324
325 * vmspawn:
326 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
327 - register with machined
328 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
329 - support --directory= via virtiofs
330 - sd_notify support
331 - --ephemeral support
332 - --read-only support
333 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
334 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
335 suspend key presses.
336 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
337 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
338
339 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
340
341 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
342
343 * storagetm:
344 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
345 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
346 operate in device mode
347 - add NVMe authentication
348
349 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
350 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
351 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
352 nvme-oF
353
354 * pcrlock:
355 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
356 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
357 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
358 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
359 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
360 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
361 pass it via initrd to OS
362 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
363 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
364 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
365 /run?
366 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
367 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
368 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
369 for pre-built images
370
371 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
372 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
373 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
374 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
375 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
376
377 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
378 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
379 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
380 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
381
382 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
383 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
384 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
385
386 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
387 systems.
388
389 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
390 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
391 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
392 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
393 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
394 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
395 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
396 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
397 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
398 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
399 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
400 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
401
402 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
403 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
404 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
405 sysext
406
407 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
408 other programs via IPC:
409 - bootctl
410 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
411 - coredumpcl
412 - systemd-bless-boot
413 - systemd-measure
414 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
415 - systemd-dissect
416 - systemd-sysupdate
417 - systemd-analyze
418 - kernel-install
419 - systemd-mount (with PK so that desktop environments could use it to mount disks)
420
421 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
422 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
423 via "systemctl status".
424
425 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
426 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
427 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
428
429 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
430 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
431
432 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
433 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
434
435 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
436 menu.
437
438 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
439 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
440 sockets.
441
442 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
443 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
444 -c owner? or rather echo 5 >/sys/class/tpm/tpm0/ppi/request?).
445
446 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
447 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
448 migratable between PCs)
449
450 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
451 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
452 snapshot logic
453
454 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
455 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
456 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
457 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
458 a local key to it.
459
460 * PidRef conversion work:
461 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
462 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
463 - get_ctty_devnr()
464 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
465 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
466 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
467 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
468 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
469 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
470
471 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
472
473 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
474 mode.
475
476 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
477 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
478 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
479 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
480 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
481 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
482 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
483
484 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
485 too much
486
487 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
488 to systemd-dissect
489
490 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
491 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
492 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
493 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
494 control of the attacker.
495
496 * also include packaging metadata (á la
497 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
498 same JSON format.
499
500 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
501 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
502 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
503 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
504 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
505 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
506 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
507 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
508 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
509 newer.
510
511 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
512 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
513 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
514 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
515 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
516 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
517 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
518 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
519
520 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
521 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
522 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
523
524 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
525 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
526 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
527 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
528 independently of any kernel.
529
530 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
531 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
532 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
533 requested during switch root.
534
535 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
536
537 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
538 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
539 matched against OS.
540
541 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
542 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
543 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
544
545 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
546 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
547 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
548 namespaces)
549
550 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
551 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
552
553 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
554 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
555 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
556
557 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
558 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
559 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
560 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
561 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
562 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
563
564 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
565 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
566 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
567 used transiently, never persistently.
568
569 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
570 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
571 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
572 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
573 based on lo_file_name.
574
575 * teach systemd-nspawn the boot assessment logic: hook up vpick's try counters
576 with success notifications from nspawn payloads. When this is enabled,
577 automatically support reverting back to older OS version images if newer ones
578 fail to boot.
579
580 * implement new "systemd-fsrebind" tool that works like gpt-auto-generator but
581 looks at a root dir and then applies vpick on various dirs/images to pick a
582 root tree, a /usr/ tree, a /home/, a /srv/, a /var/ tree and so on. Dirs
583 could also be btrfs subvols (combine with btrfs auto-snapshort approach for
584 creating versions like these automatically).
585
586 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
587
588 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
589 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
590 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
591 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
592 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
593 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
594 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
595 activation-by-message id and similar.
596
597 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
598
599 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
600 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
601 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
602 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
603
604 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
605 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
606 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
607 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
608 similar behaviour for system services, too.
609
610 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
611 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
612 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
613
614 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
615
616 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
617 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
618 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
619
620 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
621 localed, oomd, timedated.
622
623 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
624 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
625 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
626 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
627 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
628 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
629 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
630 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
631 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
632 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
633 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
634 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
635 access.
636
637 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
638 posix_spawn().
639
640 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
641 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
642 through nspawn.
643
644 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
645 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
646
647 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
648 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
649 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
650 for all umh processes.
651
652 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
653 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
654
655 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
656 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
657 resize.
658
659 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
660 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
661
662 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
663 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
664 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
665 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
666 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
667 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
668 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
669 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
670 system actually reset.
671
672 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
673 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
674 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
675
676 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
677 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
678 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
679 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
680
681 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
682 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
683 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
684 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
685
686 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
687 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
688 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
689 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
690 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
691
692 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
693 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
694 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
695 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
696 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
697
698 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
699
700 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
701 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
702 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
703 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
704
705 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
706 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
707
708 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
709 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
710 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
711
712 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
713 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
714
715 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
716 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
717 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
718 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
719 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
720 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
721 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
722 usual.
723
724 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
725
726 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
727
728 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
729
730 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
731 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
732 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
733 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
734 sockaddr.
735
736 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
737 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
738 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
739 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
740 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
741 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
742 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
743 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
744 try to use inode from there.
745
746 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
747 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
748
749 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
750 extensions
751
752 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
753 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
754 for the root fs or /usr/.
755
756 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
757 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
758 combination thereof.
759
760 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
761 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
762 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
763 ahead of time.
764
765 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
766 aforementioned purpose.
767
768 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
769 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
770
771 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
772 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
773 to figure out:
774 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
775 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
776 subsequent boots?
777
778 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
779 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
780 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
781 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
782 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
783 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
784 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
785 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
786 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
787 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
788
789 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
790 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
791 used)
792
793 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
794 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
795 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
796 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
797 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
798
799 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
800 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
801 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
802 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
803 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
804 should win over vendor defaults.
805
806 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
807 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
808 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
809
810 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
811 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
812
813 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
814
815 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
816 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
817 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
818 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
819
820 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
821 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
822 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
823 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
824 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
825 only one for each OS.
826
827 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
828 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
829 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
830 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
831 boot, for the next.
832
833 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
834 similar behind it, instead of http.
835
836 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
837 boot, or on first boot.
838
839 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
840 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
841
842 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
843 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
844 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
845 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
846 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
847 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
848 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
849 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
850 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
851 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
852 until users are allowed to log in).
853
854 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
855 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
856
857 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
858 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
859 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
860 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
861 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
862 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
863 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
864 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
865 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
866 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
867 automatically invalidated outside of it.
868
869 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
870 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
871 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
872 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
873 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
874 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
875 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
876 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
877 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
878 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
879 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
880 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
881 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
882 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
883 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
884 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
885 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
886 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
887 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
888 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
889 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
890
891 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
892 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
893
894 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
895 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
896
897 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
898 instead of manual blocking.
899
900 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
901 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
902
903 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
904 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
905 supplied password.
906
907 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
908 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
909 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
910 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
911
912 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
913 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
914 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
915 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
916
917 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
918 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
919 automatically derived from --private-key=).
920
921 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
922 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
923 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
924 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
925 partition with a portable service partition in one.
926
927 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
928 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
929 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
930 modules
931
932 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
933 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
934 a new name with a built-in config?
935
936 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
937 maybe on kernel command line:
938 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
939 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
940
941 * Merge systemd-creds options --uid= (which accepts user names) and --user.
942
943 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
944 hash type, etc)
945
946 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
947 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
948
949 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
950 but final node is not a directory
951
952 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
953 non-VFAT fs is used.
954
955 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
956
957 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
958 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
959
960 * pick up creds from EFI vars
961
962 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
963
964 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
965 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
966 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
967 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
968 affect PCR values.
969
970 * systemd-measure tool:
971 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
972
973 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
974 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
975
976 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
977 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
978
979 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
980 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
981
982 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
983 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
984
985 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
986 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
987 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
988 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
989 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
990 use it.
991
992 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
993 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
994
995 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
996 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
997 what it was signed.
998
999 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
1000 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
1001 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
1002 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
1003 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
1004 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
1005 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
1006 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
1007 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
1008 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
1009 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
1010 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
1011
1012 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
1013 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
1014
1015 * Process credentials in:
1016 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
1017 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
1018 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
1019 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
1020 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
1021 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
1022 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
1023 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
1024 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
1025 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
1026 file system paths to enable on start.
1027 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
1028 usr=
1029 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
1030 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
1031 pre-built kernels.
1032
1033 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
1034 runtime state. Then, expose it:
1035
1036 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
1037 about the unit.
1038 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
1039 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
1040 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
1041 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
1042 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
1043 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
1044
1045 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
1046 what to do if support ended
1047
1048 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
1049 login time, à la motd
1050
1051 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
1052 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
1053 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
1054 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
1055 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
1056
1057 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
1058 initrd transition. Specifically:
1059 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
1060 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
1061 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
1062
1063 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
1064 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
1065 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
1066 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
1067 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
1068 depending on desired level of persistency.
1069
1070 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
1071 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
1072 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
1073 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
1074 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
1075 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
1076 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
1077 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
1078
1079 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
1080 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
1081 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
1082 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
1083
1084 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
1085
1086 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
1087
1088 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
1089 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
1090 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
1091 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
1092 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
1093 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
1094 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
1095 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
1096 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
1097 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
1098 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
1099 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
1100 not unprivileged code.
1101
1102 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
1103 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
1104 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
1105 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
1106
1107 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
1108 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
1109 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
1110 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
1111 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
1112 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
1113 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
1114 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
1115 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
1116
1117 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
1118 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
1119 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
1120 order.
1121
1122 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
1123 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
1124 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
1125
1126 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
1127 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
1128 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
1129 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
1130 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
1131 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
1132 IN_IGNORED again)
1133
1134 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
1135 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
1136 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
1137 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
1138 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1139 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1140 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1141 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1142 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1143 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1144 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1145 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1146
1147 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1148 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1149 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1150
1151 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1152 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1153 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1154 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1155 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1156 directly to host service manager.
1157
1158 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1159 no api to query the device id
1160
1161 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1162 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1163 also be queried.
1164
1165 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1166 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1167 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1168 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1169
1170 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1171 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1172 latter).
1173
1174 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1175
1176 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1177
1178 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1179 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1180 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1181 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1182
1183 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1184 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1185 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1186 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1187 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1188 UEFI HTTP boot.
1189
1190 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1191 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1192 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1193 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1194 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1195 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1196 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1197 hence cheap for enumeration.
1198
1199 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1200
1201 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1202 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1203 words: show partition labels).
1204
1205 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1206 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1207 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1208 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1209 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1210 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1211 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1212
1213 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1214
1215 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1216
1217 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1218 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1219 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1220 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1221 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1222 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1223 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1224 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1225 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1226 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1227
1228 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1229 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1230
1231 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1232 jobs, units
1233
1234 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1235 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1236 userspace)
1237
1238 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1239
1240 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1241 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1242
1243 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1244 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1245
1246 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1247 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1248
1249 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1250 internal clock.
1251
1252 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1253 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1254
1255 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1256 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1257 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1258 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1259
1260 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1261 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1262 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1263
1264 * homed: if the homed shell fallback thing has access to an SSH agent, try to
1265 use it to unlock home dir (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled). We
1266 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1267 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1268 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1269 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1270 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1271
1272 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1273 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1274 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1275 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1276 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1277 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1278
1279 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1280 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1281 dep in the base OS image)
1282
1283 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1284 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1285 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1286 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1287 on-disk storage.
1288
1289 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1290 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1291 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1292 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1293 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1294
1295 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1296 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1297 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1298
1299 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1300 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1301 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1302 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1303
1304 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1305 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1306 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1307 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1308 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1309 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1310 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1311 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1312 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1313 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1314 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1315
1316 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1317 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1318 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1319
1320 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1321
1322 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1323
1324 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1325 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1326 that images cannot be misused.
1327
1328 * New udev block device symlink names:
1329 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1330 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1331 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1332 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1333
1334 * sysupdate:
1335 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1336 - support casync as download mechanism
1337 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1338 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1339 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1340 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1341 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1342 host's update files.)
1343 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1344 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1345 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1346 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1347
1348 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1349
1350 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1351 make dirs appear under right UID.
1352
1353 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1354 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1355
1356 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1357 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1358 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1359 already have it.
1360
1361 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1362 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1363
1364 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1365
1366 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1367 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1368 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1369 /proc/self/fd/3
1370
1371 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1372 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1373 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1374
1375 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1376 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1377
1378 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1379 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1380
1381 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1382 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1383 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1384 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1385 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1386
1387 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1388
1389 * credentials system:
1390 - acquire from EFI variable?
1391 - acquire via ask-password?
1392 - acquire creds via keyring?
1393 - pass creds via keyring?
1394 - pass creds via memfd?
1395 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1396 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1397 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1398 - make macsec code in networkd read key via creds logic (copy logic from
1399 wireguard)
1400 - make gatewayd/remote read key via creds logic
1401 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1402
1403 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1404 and such
1405
1406 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1407
1408 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1409
1410 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1411 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1412
1413 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1414 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1415
1416 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1417
1418 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1419 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1420
1421 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1422 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1423
1424 * cryptsetup:
1425 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1426 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1427
1428 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1429
1430 * Figure out naming of verbs in systemd-analyze: we have (singular) capability,
1431 exit-status, but (plural) filesystems, architectures.
1432
1433 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1434 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1435
1436 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1437 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1438
1439 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1440 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1441
1442 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1443
1444 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1445
1446 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1447 when it exits
1448
1449 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1450 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1451 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1452 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1453
1454 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1455 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1456 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1457
1458 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1459 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1460
1461 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1462
1463 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1464 specific service
1465
1466 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1467 exists and responds.
1468
1469 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1470 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1471
1472 * unify on openssl:
1473 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1474 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1475 gnutls
1476 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1477
1478 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1479 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1480
1481 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1482 realname substr searches in varlink API
1483
1484 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1485
1486 * userdb: allow existence checks
1487
1488 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1489
1490 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1491 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1492 initrd had set.
1493
1494 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1495 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1496 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1497 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1498 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1499 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1500
1501 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1502 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1503 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1504
1505 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1506 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1507 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1508 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1509 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1510 source.
1511
1512 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1513 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1514 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1515
1516 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1517
1518 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1519 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1520
1521 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1522
1523 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1524 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1525 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1526 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1527 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1528 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1529 exec().
1530
1531 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1532
1533 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1534 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1535
1536 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1537 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1538
1539 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1540 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1541 root.
1542
1543 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1544 is issued.
1545
1546 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1547
1548 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1549
1550 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1551 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1552 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1553
1554 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1555 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1556 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1557
1558 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1559
1560 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1561 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1562
1563 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1564 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1565 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1566 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1567
1568 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1569
1570 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1571
1572 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1573 non-zero "tries done" count
1574
1575 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1576 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1577 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1578 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1579 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1580 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1581 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1582 CODE_FILE.
1583
1584 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1585 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1586 some explanatory text online.
1587
1588 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1589
1590 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1591
1592 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1593 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1594
1595 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1596 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1597 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1598 files and suchlike we operate on.
1599
1600 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1601
1602 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1603 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1604
1605 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1606 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1607
1608 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1609 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1610 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1611 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1612 unlinked from any dir.
1613
1614 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1615
1616 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1617
1618 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1619
1620 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1621 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1622 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1623 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1624 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1625
1626 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1627
1628 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1629 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1630
1631 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1632 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1633 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1634 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1635 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1636 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1637 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1638 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1639
1640 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1641 for root, but only then.
1642
1643 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1644 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1645
1646 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1647 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1648
1649 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1650 only when used. Add unit tests.
1651
1652 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1653 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1654
1655 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1656 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1657 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1658 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1659 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1660
1661 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1662
1663 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1664
1665 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1666 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1667
1668 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1669
1670 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1671
1672 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1673 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1674
1675 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1676 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1677 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1678 ID is available.
1679
1680 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1681 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1682 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1683
1684 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1685 parameters
1686
1687 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1688 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1689 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1690 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1691 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1692 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1693 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1694
1695 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1696 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1697
1698 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1699 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1700 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1701
1702 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1703 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1704
1705 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1706
1707 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1708 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1709 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1710
1711 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1712 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1713
1714 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1715 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1716 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1717 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1718 natural habitat.
1719
1720 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1721 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1722
1723 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1724 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1725 relative to the configured default value.
1726
1727 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1728
1729 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1730
1731 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1732
1733 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1734
1735 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1736
1737 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1738
1739 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1740
1741 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1742
1743 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1744 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1745 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1746
1747 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1748 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1749
1750 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1751
1752 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1753 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1754 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1755 mapping to work.
1756
1757 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1758
1759 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1760
1761 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1762
1763 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1764 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1765
1766 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1767 reload the unit file anyway
1768
1769 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1770
1771 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1772
1773 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1774 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1775
1776 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1777 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1778 specifications.
1779
1780 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1781
1782 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1783
1784 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1785 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1786 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1787 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1788
1789 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1790
1791 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1792
1793 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1794 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1795 state.
1796 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1797
1798 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1799 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1800 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1801 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1802 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1803
1804 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1805
1806 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1807 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1808
1809 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1810 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1811
1812 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1813 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1814
1815 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1816
1817 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1818 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1819
1820 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1821
1822 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1823
1824 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1825
1826 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1827 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1828
1829 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1830
1831 * resolved:
1832 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1833 - service registration
1834 - service/domain/types browsing
1835 - avahi compat
1836 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1837 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1838 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1839 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1840 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1841 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1842
1843 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1844
1845 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1846
1847 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1848
1849 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1850
1851 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1852
1853 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1854 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1855
1856 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1857
1858 * gpt-auto-generator:
1859 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1860 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1861
1862 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1863 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1864 when it is otherwise off
1865
1866 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1867
1868 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1869 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1870 for ReusePort=
1871
1872 * cgroups:
1873 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1874 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1875 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1876 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1877 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1878 the hierarchies of child processes
1879 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1880 maybe use them for user@.service
1881
1882 * transient units:
1883 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1884
1885 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1886
1887 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1888
1889 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1890
1891 * 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
1892
1893 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1894 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1895 path anyway.
1896
1897 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1898
1899 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1900
1901 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1902
1903 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1904
1905 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1906
1907 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1908 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1909 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1910
1911 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1912 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1913
1914 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1915
1916 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1917
1918 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1919
1920 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1921 needs to be auto-respawned?
1922
1923 * pid1:
1924 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1925 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1926 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1927 that are not supported...
1928 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1929 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1930 - move PAM code into its own binary
1931 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1932 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1933 - Support --test based on current system state
1934 - 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().
1935 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1936 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1937 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1938 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1939 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1940 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1941 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1942 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1943 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1944 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1945 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1946 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1947
1948 * unit files:
1949 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1950 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1951 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1952 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1953 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1954 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1955 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1956 - introduce Type=pid-file
1957 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1958 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1959 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1960
1961 * timer units:
1962 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1963 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1964
1965 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1966
1967 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1968
1969 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1970
1971 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1972
1973 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1974
1975 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1976
1977 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1978
1979 * test/:
1980 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1981
1982 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1983 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1984 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1985 destination.
1986
1987 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1988 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1989
1990 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1991
1992 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1993 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1994 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1995
1996 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1997 compliant boot loader is installed.
1998
1999 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
2000 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
2001 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
2002 that automatically.
2003
2004 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
2005
2006 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
2007
2008 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
2009
2010 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
2011
2012 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
2013
2014 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
2015
2016 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
2017
2018 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
2019
2020 * sd-bus:
2021 - EBADSLT handling
2022 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
2023 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
2024 - 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
2025 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
2026 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
2027 - longer term: priority inheritance
2028 - dbus spec updates:
2029 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
2030 - path escaping
2031 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
2032
2033 * sd-event
2034 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
2035 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
2036 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
2037 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
2038 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
2039 here:
2040 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
2041
2042 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
2043 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
2044
2045 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
2046
2047 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
2048
2049 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
2050
2051 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
2052
2053 * EFI:
2054 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
2055 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
2056 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
2057 * bootctl
2058 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
2059
2060 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
2061
2062 * bootctl:
2063 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
2064 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
2065 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
2066
2067 * logind:
2068 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
2069 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
2070 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
2071 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
2072 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
2073 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
2074 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
2075 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2076 needs setuid().
2077 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2078 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2079 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2080 complete.
2081 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2082 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2083 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2084 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2085 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2086 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2087 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2088 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2089 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2090 relogins
2091 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2092 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2093 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2094 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2095
2096 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2097
2098 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2099 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2100 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2101
2102 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2103 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2104
2105 * journal:
2106 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2107 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2108 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2109 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2110 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2111 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2112 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2113 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2114 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2115 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2116 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2117 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2118 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2119 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2120 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2121 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2122 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2123 - 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.
2124 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2125 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2126 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2127 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2128 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2129 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2130 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2131 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2132 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2133 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2134 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2135 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2136 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2137 to syslog when it works again.
2138 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2139 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2140 journals in.
2141 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2142 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2143 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2144 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2145 the most common operations.
2146 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2147 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2148 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2149 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2150 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2151 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2152 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2153 operation.
2154 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2155 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2156 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2157 binary logs data
2158 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2159 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2160 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2161 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2162 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2163 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2164
2165 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2166 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2167
2168 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2169 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2170 validated via TPM.
2171
2172 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2173 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2174 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2175
2176 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2177 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2178 cursors as they happen.
2179
2180 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2181 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2182 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2183 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2184 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2185 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2186 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2187 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2188 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2189
2190 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2191 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2192 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2193 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2194 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2195 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2196
2197 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2198 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2199 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2200 records, to be able to order them.
2201
2202 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2203 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2204 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2205 be safely written to disk, then.
2206
2207 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2208 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2209 inspiration from IMA log)
2210
2211 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2212 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2213 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2214
2215 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2216 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2217 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2218 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2219 for doing that.
2220
2221 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2222 log.c and sd-journal-send
2223
2224 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2225 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2226 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2227 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2228 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2229 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2230 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2231 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2232 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2233 an NTP sync is acquired.
2234
2235 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2236
2237 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2238 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2239 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2240
2241 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2242 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2243 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2244 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2245 cgroup.
2246
2247 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2248 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2249 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2250 logging.
2251
2252 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2253
2254 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2255 from the SIGBUS handler
2256
2257 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2258 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2259 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2260 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2261
2262 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2263 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2264
2265 * homed:
2266 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2267 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2268 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2269 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2270 - create on activate?
2271 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2272 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2273 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2274 systemd --user is shut down.
2275 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2276 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2277 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2278 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2279 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2280 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2281 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2282 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2283 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2284 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2285 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2286 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2287 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2288 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2289 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2290 doesn't mean user B sees it
2291 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2292 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2293 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2294 signature
2295 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2296 and insert a local signature instead.
2297 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2298 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2299 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2300 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2301 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2302 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2303 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2304 easily?
2305 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2306 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2307 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2308 can easily set overall quota for all users
2309 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2310 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2311 - add "homectl unbind" command to remove local user record of an inactive
2312 home dir
2313
2314 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2315 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2316 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2317
2318 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2319
2320 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2321 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2322 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2323 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2324
2325 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2326
2327 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2328 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2329 something goes wrong on the way.
2330
2331 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2332 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2333 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2334 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2335
2336 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2337 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2338 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2339 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2340 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2341 automatically.
2342
2343 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2344 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2345
2346 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2347 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2348 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2349 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2350 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2351 fails to apply use the latter.
2352
2353 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2354 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2355
2356 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2357 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2358
2359 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2360 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2361 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2362
2363 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2364 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2365
2366 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2367 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2368 during boot.
2369
2370 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2371
2372 * document:
2373 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2374 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2375 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2376 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2377 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2378 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2379 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2380 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2381 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2382 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2383 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2384 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2385
2386 * systemctl:
2387 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2388 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2389 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2390 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2391 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2392 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2393
2394 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2395 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2396 it should skip the variant type string though.
2397
2398 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2399 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2400 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2401
2402 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2403 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2404 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2405
2406 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2407 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2408
2409 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2410 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2411 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2412 do, for example)
2413
2414 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2415 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2416 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2417 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2418
2419 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2420
2421 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2422
2423 * unit install:
2424 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2425 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2426
2427 * nspawn:
2428 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2429 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2430 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2431 from the kernel's logs.
2432 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2433 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2434 interface be missing
2435 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2436 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2437 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2438 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2439 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2440 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2441 PID 1...
2442 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2443 running, remove them when shut down.
2444 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2445 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2446 startup.
2447 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2448 or so, freeze the payload too.
2449 - support time namespaces
2450 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2451 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2452 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2453 "machinectl shell"
2454 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2455 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2456 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2457 - greater control over selinux label?
2458 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2459 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2460 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2461 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2462 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2463 host TPM.
2464 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2465 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2466 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2467 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2468 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2469 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2470 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2471 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2472 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2473 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2474 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2475 or two sockets.
2476 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2477
2478 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2479 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2480 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2481 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2482 anything like that.
2483
2484 * machined:
2485 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2486 removed or added to an existing machine
2487 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2488 difference host, via ssh
2489 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2490 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2491 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2492 question
2493 - "machinectl history"
2494 - "machinectl diff"
2495 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2496 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2497
2498 * udev:
2499 - move to LGPL
2500 - kill scsi_id
2501 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2502 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2503 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2504 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2505
2506 * coredump:
2507 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2508 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2509 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2510
2511 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2512
2513 * tmpfiles:
2514 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2515 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2516 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2517 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2518 calls follow symlinks.
2519 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2520 project quota
2521 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2522 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2523 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2524 - add -n as shortcut for --dry-run in tmpfiles & sysusers & possibly other places
2525
2526 * udev-link-config:
2527 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2528 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2529 on Path= matching
2530
2531 * sd-rtnl:
2532 - add support for more attribute types
2533 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2534
2535 * networkd:
2536 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2537 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2538 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2539 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2540 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2541 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2542 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2543 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2544 - expose in the API the following bits:
2545 - option 15, domain name
2546 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2547 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2548 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2549 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2550 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2551 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2552 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2553 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2554
2555 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2556
2557 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2558
2559 * dhcp:
2560 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2561
2562 * dhcp6:
2563 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2564 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2565 - write more test cases
2566 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2567 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2568 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2569 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2570 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2571 or interface down
2572 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2573 this behavior
2574 - RouteTable= ?
2575
2576 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2577 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2578 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)