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1 Bugfixes:
2
3 * Many manager configuration settings that are only applicable to user
4 manager or system manager can be always set. It would be better to reject
5 them when parsing config.
6
7 * Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@1000.service has alias user@.service.
8 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user@6.service has alias user@.service.
9 Jun 01 09:43:02 krowka systemd[1]: Unit user-runtime-dir@6.service has alias user-runtime-dir@.service.
10
11 External:
12
13 * Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
14
15 * dbus:
16 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
17 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
18
19 * kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
20
21 * /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
22
23 * fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
24
25 * neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
26
27 * fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
28
29 * register catalog database signature as file magic
30
31 * zsh shell completion:
32 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
33 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
34 - systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=
35
36 * systemctl status should know about 'systemd-analyze calendar ... --iterations='
37 * If timer has just OnInactiveSec=..., it should fire after a specified time
38 after being started.
39
40 * write blog stories about:
41 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
42 - enabling dbus services
43 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
44 - remote access
45 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
46 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
47 - auto-restart
48 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
49 - the journal HTTP iface
50 - non-cgroup resource management
51 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
52 - refreshed, longer missions statement
53 - calendar time events
54 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
55 - how to create your own target
56 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
57 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 Deprecations and removals:
88
89 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
90 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
91
92 * 2019-10 – Remove POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL references from the hwdb, see #9573
93
94 * remove cgrouspv1 support EOY 2023. As per
95 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
96 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
97 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
98
99 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
100 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
101 is only supported for such old kernels.
102
103 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
104 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
105
106 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
107 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
108 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
109 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
110 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
111
112 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
113 baseline is 5.8.
114
115 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
116 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
117
118 * rework our PID tracking in services and so on, to be strictly based on pidfd,
119 once kernel baseline is 5.13.
120
121 * H2 2023: remove support for unmerged-usr
122
123 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
124 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
125 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
126
127 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
128 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
129
130 Features:
131
132 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
133 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
134 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
135 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
136 indepdendently of any kernel.
137
138 * add clean mechanism concept for passing env/creds from initrd to host on
139 switch root, so that cloud-init and similar have a clean, sane method to pass
140 along the stuff they picked up, without patching any dirs. Maybe add
141 SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes these as argument. When adding
142 SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a flags param that allows disabling
143 and enabling whether serialization is requested during switch root.
144
145 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
146 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
147 matched against OS.
148
149 * use different sbat for sd-boot and sd-stub (so that people can revoke one
150 without the other)
151
152 * in ukify merge sbat info from kernel (if it has any, upstream kernels so far
153 dont), of sd-stub and data supplied by user. Then measure sbat too in
154 sd-stub, explicitly.
155
156 * open up creds for uses in generators, and document clearly that encrypted
157 creds are only supported if strictly tpm bound, but not when using the host
158 secret (as that is only avilable if /var/ is around.
159
160 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
161 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
162 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
163 namespaces)
164
165 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
166 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
167
168 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
169 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
170 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
171
172 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
173 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
174 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
175
176 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
177 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
178 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
179 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
180 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
181 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
182
183 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
184 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
185 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
186 used transiently, never persistently.
187
188 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
189 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
190 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
191 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
192 based on lo_file_name.
193
194 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
195
196 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
197 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
198 cursors as they happen.
199
200 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
201 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
202 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
203 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
204 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
205 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
206 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
207 activation-by-message id and similar.
208
209 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
210 ability to write anywehere else below /run/. Similar for
211 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
212 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
213
214 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
215 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
216 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
217 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
218 similar behaviour for system services, too.
219
220 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
221 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
222 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
223
224 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
225
226 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
227 localed, oomd, timedated.
228
229 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
230 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
231 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
232 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
233 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
234 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
235 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
236 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
237 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
238
239 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
240 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
241 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
242
243 * in order to make binding to PCR 4 realistic:
244 - generate one keypair "U" and store it in a tpm2 nvindex.
245 - Generate another keypair "P" and store it in a second tpm2 nvindex.
246 - allocate a persistent counter object "C" in the tpm2
247 - Enroll all user objects (i.e. luks volumes, creds, …) to a tpm2 policy
248 signed by U.
249 - Lock both U and P down with a tpm2 policy signed by P (yes, P can only be
250 used if a signature by P itself can be provided)
251 - For regular reboots generate a signature for a restrictive PCR4 + counter C
252 based policy with key P. Place signature in EFI var, so it can be found on
253 next boot
254 - For reboots where a firmware update is expected generate a signature with a
255 more open policy against just counter C. Place signature in same EFI var.
256 - Increase C whenever switching between these two signature types.
257 - During early boot, use the signature from the EFI var to unlock U and P.
258 Use it to generate a signature for unlocking user objects given the current
259 PCR 4 value, store that away into /run somewhere, for user during the whole
260 later boot.
261 - When booting up automatically update the mentioned efi var so that it
262 contains the restrictive signature. But also generate a signature ahead of
263 time that could be used in case during the current boot we later detect we might
264 need to reboot for a firmware update. Store that in /run somewhere, so that
265 it can be placed in the EFI var, if needed.
266
267 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
268 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
269 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
270 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
271 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
272 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
273 identifiying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
274 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
275 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
276 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
277 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
278 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
279 access.
280
281 * split out execute.c into new "systemd-executor" binary. Then make PID 1 fork
282 that off via vfork(), and then let that executor do the hard work. Ultimately
283 the executor then gets replaced by the real binary sooner or later. Reason:
284 currently the intermediary "stub" process is a CoW trap that doubles memory
285 usage of PID 1 on each service start. Also, strictly speaking we are not
286 allowed to do NSS from the stub process yet we do anyway. Next steps would
287 then be maybe use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP for the executor, given that we don't
288 need glibc anymore in the stub process then. Then, switch nspawn to just be a
289 frontend for this too, so that we have to ways into the executor: via unit
290 files/dbus/varlin through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI through nspawn.
291
292 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
293 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
294
295 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
296 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
297 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
298 for all umh processes.
299
300 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
301 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
302
303 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
304 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
305 resize.
306
307 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
308 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
309
310 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
311 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
312 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
313 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
314 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculted from the monotonic timestamp in the
315 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
316
317 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
318 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
319 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
320 records, to be able to order them.
321
322 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
323 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
324 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
325 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
326 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
327 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
328 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
329 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
330 system actually reset.
331
332 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
333 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
334 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
335
336 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
337 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
338 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
339 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
340
341 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
342 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
343 is then useful for network boot, by embdedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
344 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
345
346 * fix systemd-gpt-auto-generator in case a UKI is spawned from XBOOTLDR without
347 sd-boot. In that case LoaderDevicePartUUID will point to the XBOOTLDR, and we
348 should then derive the root disk from that, and then the ESP/XBOOTLDR from
349 that. Right now we will only mount ESP if it matches LoaderDEvicePartUUID
350 which isn't quite the same.
351
352 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
353 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
354 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
355 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
356 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
357
358 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
359 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
360 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
361 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
362 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
363
364 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
365
366 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
367 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
368 Usecase: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
369 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
370
371 * bootctl: warn if ESP is mounted world-readable (and in particular the seed).
372
373 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
374 cmdline. usecase: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
375
376 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
377 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
378 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
379
380 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
381 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
382
383 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
384 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
385 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
386 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
387 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
388 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
389 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
390 usual.
391
392 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
393
394 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
395
396 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
397
398 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
399 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
400 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
401 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
402 sockaddr.
403
404 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
405 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
406 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
407 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
408 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
409 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
410 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
411 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
412 try to use inode from there.
413
414 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
415 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
416
417 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
418 extensions
419
420 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
421 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
422 for the root fs or /usr/.
423
424 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
425 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
426 combination thereof.
427
428 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
429 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
430 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
431 ahead of time.
432
433 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
434 aforementioned purpose.
435
436 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
437 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
438
439 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
440 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
441 to figure out:
442 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
443 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
444 subsequent boots?
445
446 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
447 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
448 inspiration from IMA log)
449
450 * provide an API to apps to encrypt/decrypt credentials. usecase: allow
451 bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd that way, without shelling
452 out to our tools.
453
454 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
455 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
456 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
457 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
458 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
459 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
460 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
461 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
462 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
463 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
464
465 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
466 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
467 used)
468
469 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
470 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
471 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
472 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
473 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
474
475 * whenever we measure something into a TPM PCR from userspace, write a record in
476 TCG's "Canonical Event Log" format to some file, so that we can reason about
477 how PCR values we manage came to
478 be. https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/resource/canonical-event-log-format/
479
480 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
481 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
482 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
483 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
484 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
485 should win over vendor defaults.
486
487 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
488 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
489 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
490
491 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
492 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
493
494 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
495 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
496 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
497 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
498 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
499 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
500
501 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
502 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
503 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
504
505 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
506
507 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
508 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
509 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Usecase: remove secondary OS
510 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
511
512 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
513 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
514 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
515 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
516 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
517 only one for each OS.
518
519 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
520 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
521 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
522 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
523 boot, for the next.
524
525 * figure out a sane way when building UKIs how to extract SBAT data from inner
526 kernel, extend it with component info, and add to outer kernel.
527
528 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
529 similar behind it, instead of http.
530
531 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
532 boot, or on first boot.
533
534 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
535 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
536
537 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
538 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
539 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
540 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
541 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
542 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
543 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
544 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
545 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
546 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
547 until users are allowed to log in).
548
549 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
550 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
551
552 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
553 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
554 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
555 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Usecase: systemd-confext
556 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
557 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
558 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
559 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
560 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
561 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
562 automatically invalidated outside of it.
563
564 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
565 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
566 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
567 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
568 enhanced remote attestation quote. Usecase: a simple orchestrator could use
569 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
570 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
571 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
572 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
573 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
574 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
575 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
576 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
577 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
578 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
579 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
580 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
581 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
582 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
583 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
584 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
585
586 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
587 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
588
589 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
590 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
591
592 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
593 instead of manual blocking.
594
595 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
596 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
597
598 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
599 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
600 supplied password.
601
602 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
603 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
604 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
605 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
606
607 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
608 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
609 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
610 convencience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
611
612 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
613 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
614 automatically derived from --private-key=).
615
616 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
617 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
618 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
619
620 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
621 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
622 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
623 use as additional search condition. Usecase: images that combined a sysext
624 partition with a portable service partition in one.
625
626 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
627 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
628 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
629 modules
630
631 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
632 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
633 a new name with a built-in config?
634
635 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
636 maybe on kernel command line:
637 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
638 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
639
640 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
641 hash type, etc)
642
643 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
644 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
645
646 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
647 but final node is not a directory
648
649 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
650 non-VFAT fs is used.
651
652 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
653
654 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
655 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
656
657 * pick up creds from EFI vars
658
659 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
660
661 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
662 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
663 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
664 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
665 affect PCR values.
666
667 * systemd-measure tool:
668 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
669
670 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
671 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
672
673 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
674 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
675
676 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
677 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
678
679 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
680 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
681
682 * add small wrapper around qemu that implements sd_notify/AF_VSOCK + machined and
683 maybe some other stuff and boots it
684
685 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
686 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
687 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
688 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
689 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
690 use it.
691
692 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
693 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
694
695 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
696 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
697 what it was signed.
698
699 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
700 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
701 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
702 be safely written to disk, then.
703
704 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
705 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
706 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
707 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
708 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
709 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
710 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
711 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
712 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
713 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
714 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
715 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
716
717 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
718 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
719
720 * Process credentials in:
721 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
722 via the credentials logic.
723 • fstab-generator: allow defining additional fstab-like mounts via
724 credentials (similar: crypttab-generator, verity-generator,
725 integrity-generator)
726 • getty-generator: allow defining additional getty instances via a credential
727 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
728 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
729 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
730 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
731 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
732 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
733 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
734 file system paths to enable on start.
735 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
736 usr=
737 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
738 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
739 register if not registered yet. Usecase: deploy a system, and add an
740 account one can directly log into.
741 • initialize machine ID from systemd credential picked up from the ESP via
742 sd-stub, so that machine ID is stable even on systems where unified kernels
743 are used, and hence kernel cmdline cannot be modified locally
744 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
745 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
746 pre-built kernels.
747
748 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
749 runtime state. Then, expose it:
750
751 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
752 about the unit.
753 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
754 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
755 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
756 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
757 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
758 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
759
760 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
761 what to do if support ended
762
763 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
764 login time, à la motd
765
766 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
767 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
768 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Usecase: embed sd-boot in the
769 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
770 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
771
772 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
773 initrd transition. Specifically:
774 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
775 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
776 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
777
778 * implement varlink introspection
779
780 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
781 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
782 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
783 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
784 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
785 depending on desired level of persistency.
786
787 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
788 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
789 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
790 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
791 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
792 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
793 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
794 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
795
796 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
797 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
798 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
799 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
800
801 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
802
803 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
804
805 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
806 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
807 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
808 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Usecase: container
809 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
810 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
811 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
812 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
813 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
814 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
815 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
816 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
817 not unprivileged code.
818
819 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
820 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
821
822 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
823 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
824 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
825 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
826
827 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
828 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
829 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
830 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
831 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
832 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
833 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
834 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
835 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
836
837 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
838 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
839 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
840 order.
841
842 * TPM2: extend unlock policy to protect against version downgrades in signed
843 policies: policy probably must take some nvram based generation counter into
844 account that can only monotonically increase and can be used to invalidate
845 old PCR signatures. Otherwise people could downgrade to old signed PCR sets
846 whenever they want.
847
848 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
849 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
850 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
851
852 * add a clear concept how the initrd can make up credentials on their own to
853 pass to the system when transitioning into the host OS. usecase: things like
854 cloud-init/ignitation and similar can parameterize the host with data they
855 acquire.
856
857 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
858 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
859 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
860 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
861 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
862 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
863 IN_IGNORED again)
864
865 * systemd-fstab-generator: support addition mount specifications via kernel
866 cmdline. Usecase: invoke a VM, and mount a host homedir into it via
867 virtio-fs.
868
869 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
870 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
871 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
872 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
873 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
874 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
875 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
876 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
877 - pid 1 should look for machine ID in creds
878 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
879 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
880 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
881 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
882
883 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
884 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
885 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
886
887 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
888 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
889 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
890 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
891 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
892 directly to host service manager.
893
894 * maybe write a tool that binds an AF_VFSOCK socket, then invokes qemu,
895 extending the command line to enable vsock on the VM, and using SMBIOS
896 credentials to configure socket address.
897
898 * sd-boot: add menu item for shutdown? or hotkey?
899
900 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
901 no api to query the device id
902
903 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
904 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
905 also be queried.
906
907 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
908 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
909 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
910 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
911
912 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
913 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
914 latter).
915
916 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
917
918 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
919
920 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
921 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
922 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
923 generated by GNU sha256sums.
924
925 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
926 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
927 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
928 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
929 to the menu. Usecase: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
930 UEFI HTTP boot.
931
932 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
933 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
934 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
935 binary with some minimal info about an URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
936 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
937 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
938 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
939 hence cheap for enumeration.
940
941 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
942
943 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
944 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
945 words: show partition labels).
946
947 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
948 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
949 that take an URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
950 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. usecase:
951 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
952 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
953 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
954
955 * improve scope units to support creation by pidfd instead of by PID
956
957 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
958
959 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
960
961 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
962 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
963 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
964 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
965 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
966 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
967 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
968 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
969 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
970 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
971
972 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
973 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
974 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
975 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
976 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
977 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
978 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
979 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
980 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
981 an NTP sync is acquired.
982
983 * kernel-install:
984 - add --all switch for rerunning kernel-install for all installed kernels
985
986 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
987 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
988
989 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
990 jobs, units
991
992 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
993 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
994 userspace)
995
996 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
997
998 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
999 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1000
1001 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1002 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1003
1004 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1005 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1006
1007 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1008 internal clock.
1009
1010 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1011 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1012
1013 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1014 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1015 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1016 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1017
1018 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1019 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1020 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1021
1022 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1023 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1024 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1025 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1026 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1027 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1028 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1029 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1030 thread:
1031 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1032 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1033 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1034 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1035 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1036 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1037
1038 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1039 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1040 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1041
1042 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1043 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1044 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1045 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1046 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1047 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1048 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1049 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1050 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1051 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1052 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1053 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1054 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1055 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1056 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1057
1058 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1059 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1060 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Usecase: drop a root user JSON record there,
1061 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1062 for debugging purposes. Other usecase: boot into qemu with regular user
1063 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1064
1065 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1066 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1067 dep in the base OS image)
1068
1069 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1070 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1071 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1072 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1073 on-disk storage.
1074
1075 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1076 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1077 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1078 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1079 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1080
1081 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1082 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1083 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1084
1085 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1086 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1087 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1088 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1089 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1090 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1091 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1092
1093 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1094 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1095 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1096 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1097
1098 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1099 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1100 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1101 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1102 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1103 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1104 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1105 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1106 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1107 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1108 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1109
1110 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1111 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1112 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1113
1114 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1115
1116 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1117
1118 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1119 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1120 that images cannot be misused.
1121
1122 * New udev block device symlink names:
1123 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1124 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1125 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1126 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1127
1128 * sysupdate:
1129 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1130 - support casync as download mechanism
1131 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1132 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1133 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1134 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1135 update component, since otherwise system extenion' sysupdate.d/ files would
1136 override the host's update files.)
1137 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1138 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1139 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1140 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1141
1142 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1143
1144 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1145 make dirs appear under right UID.
1146
1147 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1148 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1149
1150 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
1151 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
1152 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
1153 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
1154 for doing that.
1155
1156 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1157 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1158 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1159 already have it.
1160
1161 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1162 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1163
1164 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1165
1166 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1167 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1168 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1169 /proc/self/fd/3
1170
1171 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1172 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1173 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1174
1175 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1176 that is deleted in the fs. Usecase would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1177
1178 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1179 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1180
1181 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1182 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1183 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1184 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1185 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1186
1187 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1188
1189 * credentials system:
1190 - acquire from EFI variable?
1191 - acquire via ask-password?
1192 - acquire creds via keyring?
1193 - pass creds via keyring?
1194 - pass creds via memfd?
1195 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1196 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1197 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1198 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1199 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1200 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1201 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1202 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1203
1204 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1205 firmware indicates there is one.
1206
1207 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1208 and such
1209
1210 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1211
1212 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1213
1214 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1215 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1216
1217 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1218 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1219
1220 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1221
1222 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1223 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1224
1225 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1226 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1227
1228 * cryptsetup:
1229 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1230 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1231
1232 * when configuring loopback netif, and it fails due to EPERM, eat up error if
1233 it happens to be set up alright already.
1234
1235 * at boot: check if battery above some threshold, if not power off again after explanation
1236
1237 * userdb: add field for ambient caps, so that a user can have CAP_WAKE_ALARM
1238 for example. And add code that resets ambient caps for all services by
1239 default.
1240
1241 * sd-bus: when connecting to some dbus server socker, set originating AF_UNIX
1242 socket name in abstract namespace to include "description" string, and pick
1243 it up from there in sd_bus_creds logic. i.e. we can use the socket peer
1244 address as conduit for some minimal connection metainfo, and use it to
1245 restore the "description" logic that kdbus used to have.
1246
1247 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1248
1249 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1250 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1251
1252 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1253 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1254
1255 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1256 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1257
1258 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1259
1260 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1261
1262 * pid1: Move to tracking of main pid/control pid of units per pidfd
1263
1264 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1265
1266 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1267 when it exits
1268
1269 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1270 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1271 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1272 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1273 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1274 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1275 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1276 o move into separate libsystemd-shared-iptables.so .so
1277 - iptables-libs (only used by nspawn + networkd)
1278
1279 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1280 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1281 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1282
1283 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1284 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1285
1286 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1287
1288 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1289 specific service
1290
1291 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1292 exists and responds.
1293
1294 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1295 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1296
1297 * unify on openssl:
1298 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1299 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1300 gnutls
1301 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1302
1303 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1304 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1305
1306 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1307 realname substr searches in varlink API
1308
1309 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1310
1311 * userdb: allow existence checks
1312
1313 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1314
1315 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1316 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1317 initrd had set.
1318
1319 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1320 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1321 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1322 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1323 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1324 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1325
1326 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1327 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1328 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1329
1330 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1331 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1332 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1333 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1334 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1335 source.
1336
1337 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1338 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1339 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1340
1341 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1342
1343 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1344 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1345 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1346 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1347 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1348 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1349 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1350 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1351 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1352 hibernation mode. (see
1353 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1354 section 10.2.2.8 and
1355 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1356 at the end).
1357
1358 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1359 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1360
1361 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1362
1363 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1364 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1365 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1366 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1367 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1368 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1369 exec().
1370
1371 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1372
1373 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1374 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1375
1376 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1377 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1378
1379 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1380 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1381 root.
1382
1383 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1384 is issued.
1385
1386 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1387
1388 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1389
1390 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1391 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1392 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1393
1394 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1395 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1396 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1397
1398 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1399
1400 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1401 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1402
1403 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1404 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1405 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1406 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1407
1408 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1409
1410 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
1411 log.c and sd-journal-send
1412
1413 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1414
1415 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
1416
1417 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1418 non-zero "tries done" count
1419
1420 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1421 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1422 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1423 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1424 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1425 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1426 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1427 CODE_FILE.
1428
1429 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1430 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1431 some explanatory text online.
1432
1433 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1434
1435 * When reloading configuration PID 1 should reset all its properties to the
1436 original defaults before calling parse_config()
1437
1438 * hibernate/s2h: make this robust and safe to enable in Fedora by default.
1439 Specifically:
1440
1441 1. add resume_offset support to the resume code (i.e. support swap files
1442 properly)
1443 2. check if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1444 3. add auto-detection of hibernation images
1445
1446 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1447 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1448
1449 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1450 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1451 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1452 files and suchlike we operate on.
1453
1454 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1455
1456 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1457
1458 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1459 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1460
1461 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1462 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1463
1464 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1465 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1466 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1467 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1468 unlinked from any dir.
1469
1470 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1471
1472 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1473
1474 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1475
1476 * introduce Ephemeral= unit file switch, that creates an ephemeral copy of all
1477 files and directories that are left writable for a unit, and which are
1478 removed after the unit goes down again. A bit like --ephemeral for
1479 systemd-nspawn but for system services. If used together with RootImage= this
1480 should reflink the image file itself.
1481
1482 Related: add Ephemeral=<path1> <path2> … which would allow marking
1483 specific paths only like this.
1484
1485 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1486 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1487 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1488 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1489 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1490
1491 * show invocation ID in systemd-run output
1492
1493 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1494
1495 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1496 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1497
1498 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1499 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1500 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1501 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1502 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1503 different slice too by default. Usecase: people who want to put resources on
1504 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1505 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1506
1507 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1508 for root, but only then.
1509
1510 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1511 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1512
1513 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1514 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1515
1516 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1517 only when used. Add unit tests.
1518
1519 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1520 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1521
1522 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1523 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1524 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1525 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1526 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1527
1528 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1529
1530 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1531
1532 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1533 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1534
1535 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1536
1537 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1538
1539 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1540 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1541
1542 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1543 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1544 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1545 ID is available.
1546
1547 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1548 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1549 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1550
1551 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1552 parameters
1553
1554 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1555 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1556 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1557 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1558 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1559 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1560 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1561
1562 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1563 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1564
1565 * expose IO accounting data on the bus, show it in systemd-run --wait and log
1566 about it in the resource log message
1567
1568 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1569 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1570 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1571
1572 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1573 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1574
1575 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1576
1577 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1578 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1579 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1580
1581 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1582 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1583
1584 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1585 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1586 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1587 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1588 natural habitat.
1589
1590 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1591 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1592
1593 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1594 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1595 relative to the configured default value.
1596
1597 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1598
1599 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1600
1601 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1602
1603 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1604
1605 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1606
1607 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1608
1609 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1610
1611 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1612
1613 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1614 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1615 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1616
1617 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1618 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1619
1620 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1621
1622 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1623 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1624 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1625 mapping to work.
1626
1627 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1628
1629 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1630
1631 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1632
1633 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1634 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1635
1636 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1637 reload the unit file anyway
1638
1639 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1640
1641 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1642
1643 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1644 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1645
1646 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1647 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1648 specifications.
1649
1650 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1651
1652 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1653
1654 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1655 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1656 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1657 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1658
1659 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1660
1661 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1662
1663 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1664 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1665 state.
1666 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1667
1668 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1669 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1670 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1671 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1672 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1673
1674 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1675
1676 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1677 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1678
1679 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1680 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1681
1682 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1683 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1684
1685 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1686
1687 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1688 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1689
1690 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1691
1692 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1693
1694 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1695
1696 * merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
1697
1698 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1699 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1700
1701 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1702
1703 * resolved:
1704 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1705 - service registration
1706 - service/domain/types browsing
1707 - avahi compat
1708 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1709 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1710 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1711 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1712 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1713 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1714
1715 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1716
1717 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1718
1719 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1720
1721 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1722
1723 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1724
1725 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1726 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1727
1728 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1729
1730 * gpt-auto-generator:
1731 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1732 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1733
1734 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1735 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1736 when it is otherwise off
1737
1738 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1739
1740 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1741 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1742 for ReusePort=
1743
1744 * cgroups:
1745 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1746 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1747 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1748 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1749 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1750 the hierarchies of child processes
1751 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1752 maybe use them for user@.service
1753
1754 * transient units:
1755 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1756
1757 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1758
1759 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1760
1761 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1762
1763 * 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
1764
1765 * After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
1766
1767 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1768 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1769 path anyway.
1770
1771 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1772
1773 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1774
1775 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1776
1777 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1778
1779 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1780
1781 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1782
1783 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1784 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1785 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1786
1787 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1788 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1789
1790 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1791
1792 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1793
1794 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1795
1796 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1797 needs to be auto-respawned?
1798
1799 * pid1:
1800 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1801 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1802 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1803 that are not supported...
1804 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1805 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
1806 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1807 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1808 - move PAM code into its own binary
1809 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1810 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1811 - Support --test based on current system state
1812 - 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().
1813 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1814 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1815 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1816 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1817 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1818 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1819 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1820 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1821 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1822 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1823 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1824 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1825
1826 * unit files:
1827 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1828 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1829 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1830 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1831 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1832 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1833 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1834 - introduce Type=pid-file
1835 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1836 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1837 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1838
1839 * timer units:
1840 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1841 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1842
1843 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1844
1845 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1846
1847 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1848
1849 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1850
1851 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1852
1853 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1854
1855 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1856
1857 * test/:
1858 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1859
1860 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1861 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1862 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1863 destination.
1864
1865 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1866 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1867
1868 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1869
1870 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1871 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1872 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1873
1874 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1875 compliant boot loader is installed.
1876
1877 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
1878 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1879 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1880 that automatically.
1881
1882 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1883
1884 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1885
1886 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1887
1888 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1889
1890 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1891
1892 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1893
1894 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1895
1896 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1897
1898 * sd-bus:
1899 - EBADSLT handling
1900 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1901 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1902 - 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
1903 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1904 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1905 - longer term: priority inheritance
1906 - dbus spec updates:
1907 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1908 - path escaping
1909 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1910
1911 * sd-event
1912 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1913 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1914 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1915 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1916 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1917 here:
1918 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1919
1920 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1921 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1922
1923 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1924
1925 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1926
1927 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1928
1929 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1930
1931 * EFI:
1932 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1933 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1934 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1935 * bootctl
1936 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1937
1938 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1939
1940 * bootctl:
1941 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1942 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1943 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1944
1945 * logind:
1946 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1947 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1948 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1949 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1950 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1951 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1952 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1953 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
1954 needs setuid().
1955 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
1956 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
1957 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
1958 complete.
1959 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
1960 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
1961 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
1962 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
1963 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
1964 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
1965 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
1966 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
1967 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
1968 relogins
1969 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
1970 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
1971 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
1972 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
1973
1974 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
1975
1976 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
1977 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
1978 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
1979
1980 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
1981 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
1982
1983 * journal:
1984 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
1985 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
1986 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
1987 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
1988 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
1989 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
1990 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
1991 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
1992 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
1993 message that works, but already after a short timeout
1994 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
1995 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
1996 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
1997 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
1998 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
1999 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2000 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2001 - 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.
2002 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2003 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2004 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2005 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2006 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2007 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2008 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2009 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2010 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2011 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2012 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2013 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2014 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2015 to syslog when it works again.
2016 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2017 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2018 journals in.
2019 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2020 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2021 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2022 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2023 the most common operations.
2024 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2025 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2026 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2027 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2028 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2029 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2030 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2031 operation.
2032 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2033 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
2034 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2035 binary logs data
2036 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2037 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2038 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2039 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2040 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2041 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2042
2043 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2044 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2045
2046 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2047 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2048 validated via TPM.
2049
2050 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2051 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2052
2053 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2054 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2055 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2056
2057 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2058 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2059 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2060 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2061 cgroup.
2062
2063 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2064 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2065 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2066 logging.
2067
2068 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2069
2070 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2071 from the SIGBUS handler
2072
2073 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2074 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2075 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2076 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2077
2078 * homed:
2079 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2080 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2081 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2082 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2083 - create on activate?
2084 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2085 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2086 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2087 systemd --user is shut down.
2088 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2089 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2090 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2091 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2092 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2093 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2094 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2095 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2096 - query password from kernel keyring first
2097 - update even if record is "absent"
2098 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2099 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2100 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2101 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2102 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2103 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2104 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2105 doesn't mean user B sees it
2106 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2107 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2108 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2109 signature
2110 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2111 and insert a local signature instead.
2112 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2113 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2114 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2115 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2116 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2117 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2118 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2119 easily?
2120 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2121 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2122 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2123 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2124 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2125 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2126 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2127 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2128 can easily set overall quota for all users
2129 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2130 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2131 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2132 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2133 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2134 large.
2135
2136 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2137 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2138 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2139
2140 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2141
2142 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2143 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2144 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2145 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2146
2147 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2148
2149 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2150 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2151 something goes wrong on the way.
2152
2153 * systemd-repart: drop pager mode on normal operation?
2154
2155 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2156 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2157 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2158 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2159
2160 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2161 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2162 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2163 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2164 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2165 automatically.
2166
2167 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2168 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2169
2170 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2171 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2172 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2173 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2174 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2175 fails to apply use the latter.
2176
2177 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2178 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2179
2180 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2181 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2182
2183 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2184 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2185 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2186
2187 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2188 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2189
2190 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2191 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2192 during boot.
2193
2194 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2195
2196 * document:
2197 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2198 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2199 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2200 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2201 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2202 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2203 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2204 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2205 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2206 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2207 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2208 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2209
2210 * systemctl:
2211 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2212 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2213 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2214 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2215 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2216 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2217 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2218 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2219 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2220 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2221
2222 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2223 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2224 it should skip the variant type string though.
2225
2226 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2227 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2228 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2229
2230 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2231 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2232 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2233
2234 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2235 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2236
2237 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2238 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2239 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2240 do, for example)
2241
2242 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2243 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2244 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2245 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2246
2247 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2248
2249 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2250
2251 * unit install:
2252 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2253 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2254
2255 * nspawn:
2256 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2257 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2258 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2259 from the kernel's logs.
2260 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2261 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2262 interface be missing
2263 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2264 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2265 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2266 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2267 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2268 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2269 PID 1...
2270 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2271 running, remove them when shut down.
2272 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2273 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2274 startup.
2275 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2276 or so, freeze the payload too.
2277 - support time namespaces
2278 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2279 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2280 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2281 "machinectl shell"
2282 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2283 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2284 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2285 - greater control over selinux label?
2286 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2287 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2288 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2289 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2290 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2291 host TPM.
2292 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2293 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2294 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2295 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2296 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2297 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2298 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2299 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2300 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2301 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2302 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2303 or two sockets.
2304 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2305
2306 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2307 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2308 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2309 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2310 anything like that.
2311
2312 * machined:
2313 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2314 removed or added to an existing machine
2315 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2316 difference host, via ssh
2317 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2318 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2319 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2320 question
2321 - "machinectl history"
2322 - "machinectl diff"
2323 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2324 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2325
2326 * udev:
2327 - move to LGPL
2328 - kill scsi_id
2329 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2330 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2331 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2332 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2333
2334 * coredump:
2335 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2336 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2337 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2338
2339 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2340
2341 * tmpfiles:
2342 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2343 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2344 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2345 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2346 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2347 calls follow symlinks.
2348 - add --test mode
2349 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2350 project quota
2351 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2352 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2353 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2354
2355 * udev-link-config:
2356 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2357 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2358 on Path= matching
2359
2360 * sd-rtnl:
2361 - add support for more attribute types
2362 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2363
2364 * networkd:
2365 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2366 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2367 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2368 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2369 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2370 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2371 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2372 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2373 - expose in the API the following bits:
2374 - option 15, domain name
2375 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2376 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2377 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2378 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2379 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2380 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2381 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2382 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2383
2384 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2385
2386 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2387
2388 * dhcp:
2389 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2390
2391 * dhcp6:
2392 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2393 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2394 - write more test cases
2395 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2396 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
2397 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2398 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2399 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2400 or interface down
2401 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2402 this behavior
2403 - RouteTable= ?