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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/early boot
58
59 Regularly:
60
61 * look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
62
63 * check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
64
65 * pahole
66
67 * set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
68
69 * use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
70
71 * link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields
72
73 Janitorial Clean-ups:
74
75 * rework mount.c and swap.c to follow proper state enumeration/deserialization
76 semantics, like we do for device.c now
77
78 * get rid of prefix_roota() and similar, only use chase() and related
79 calls instead.
80
81 * get rid of basename() and replace by path_extract_filename()
82
83 * Replace our fstype_is_network() with a call to libmount's mnt_fstype_is_netfs()?
84 Having two lists is not nice, but maybe it's now worth making a dependency on
85 libmount for something so trivial.
86
87 * drop set_free_free() and switch things over from string_hash_ops to
88 string_hash_ops_free everywhere, so that destruction is implicit rather than
89 explicit. Similar, for other special hashmap/set/ordered_hashmap destructors.
90
91 * generators sometimes apply C escaping and sometimes specifier escaping to
92 paths and similar strings they write out. Sometimes both. We should clean
93 this up, and should probably always apply both, i.e. introduce
94 unit_file_escape() or so, which applies both.
95
96 Deprecations and removals:
97
98 * Remove any support for booting without /usr pre-mounted in the initrd entirely.
99 Update INITRD_INTERFACE.md accordingly.
100
101 * remove cgroups v1 support EOY 2023. As per
102 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-July/048120.html
103 and then rework cgroupsv2 support around fds, i.e. keep one fd per active
104 unit around, and always operate on that, instead of cgroup fs paths.
105
106 * drop support for kernels that lack ambient capabilities support (i.e. make
107 4.3 new baseline). Then drop support for "!!" modifier for ExecStart= which
108 is only supported for such old kernels.
109
110 * drop support for kernels lacking memfd_create() (i.e. make 3.17 new
111 baseline), then drop all pipe() based fallbacks.
112
113 * drop support for getrandom()-less kernels. (GRND_INSECURE means once kernel
114 5.6 becomes our baseline). See
115 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24101#issuecomment-1193966468 for
116 details. Maybe before that: at taint-flags/warn about kernels that lack
117 getrandom()/environments where it is blocked.
118
119 * drop support for LOOP_CONFIGURE-less loopback block devices, once kernel
120 baseline is 5.8.
121
122 * drop fd_is_mount_point() fallback mess once we can rely on
123 STATX_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT to exist i.e. kernel baseline 5.8
124
125 * Remove /dev/mem ACPI FPDT parsing when /sys/firmware/acpi/fpdt is ubiquitous.
126 That requires distros to enable CONFIG_ACPI_FPDT, and have kernels v5.12 for
127 x86 and v6.2 for arm.
128
129 * Once baseline is 4.13, remove support for INTERFACE_OLD= checks in "udevadm
130 trigger"'s waiting logic, since we can then rely on uuid-tagged uevents
131
132 * remove remaining tpm1.2 support from sd-stub
133
134 Features:
135
136 * vmspawn:
137 - enable hyperv extension by default (https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/i386/hyperv.html)
138 - register with machined
139 - run in scope unit when invoked from command line, and machined registration is off
140 - support --directory= via virtiofs
141 - sd_notify support
142 - --ephemeral support
143 - --read-only support
144 - automatically suspend/resume the VM if the host suspends. Use logind
145 suspend inhibitor to implement this. request clean suspend by generating
146 suspend key presses.
147 - support for "real" networking via "-n" and --network-bridge=
148 - automatically run service "at the side" for swtpm
149 - translate SIGTERM to clean ACPI shutdown event
150
151 * systemd-pcrmachine should probably also measure the SMBIOS system UUID.
152
153 * sd-boot: allow synthesizing additional type1 entries via SMBIOS vendor strings
154
155 * storagetm:
156 - add USB mass storage device logic, so that all local disks are also exposed
157 as mass storage devices on systems that have a USB controller that can
158 operate in device mode
159 - add NVMe authentication
160 - show login details also via plymouth
161
162 * add support for activating nvme-oF devices at boot automatically via kernel
163 cmdline, and maybe even support a syntax such as
164 root=nvme:<trtype>:<traddr>:<trsvcid>:<nqn>:<partition> to boot directly from
165 nvme-oF
166
167 * pcrlock:
168 - make signed PCR work together with pcrlock
169 - add kernel-install plugin that automatically creates UKI .pcrlock file when
170 UKI is installed, and removes it when it is removed again
171 - automatically install PE measurement of sd-boot on "bootctl install"
172 - write generated pcrlock signature files to the ESP as credential, one for
173 each installed OS & pick up generated pcrlock signature file in sd-stub,
174 pass it via initrd to OS
175 - pre-calc sysext + kernel cmdline measurements
176 - pre-calc cryptsetup root key measurement
177 - maybe make systemd-repart generate .pcrlock for old and new GPT header in
178 /run?
179 - Add support for more than 8 branches per PCR OR
180 - add "systemd-pcrlock lock-kernel-current" or so which synthesizes .pcrlock
181 policy from currently booted kernel/event log, to close gap for first boot
182 for pre-built images
183
184 * add a new systemd-project@.service that is very similar to user@.service but
185 uses DynamicUser=1 and no PAMName= to invoke an unprivileged somewhat
186 light-weight service manager. Use HOME=/var/lib/systemd/projects/%i as home
187 dir. Similar for $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Start project@%i.target. Use LogField= to
188 add a field identifying the project.
189
190 * logind: add a new dbus call Sleep() which automatically redirects to one of
191 Suspend(), Hibernate(), SuspendThenHibernate() depending on what is
192 available, and also subject to some local configuration in
193 logind.conf. Should default to SuspendThenHibernate() if available, and then
194 fallback to Suspend() and finally Hibernate() if not. Then expose this as
195 "systemctl sleep", and tell DEs to default to this.
196
197 * in sd-boot and sd-stub measure the SMBIOS vendor strings to some PCR (at
198 least some subset of them that look like systemd stuff), because apparently
199 some firmware does not, but systemd honours it. avoid duplicate measurement
200 by sd-boot and sd-stub by adding LoaderFeatures/StubFeatures flag for this,
201 so that sd-stub can avoid it if sd-boot already did it.
202
203 * cryptsetup: a mechanism that allows signing a volume key with some key that
204 has to be present in the kernel keyring, or similar, to ensure that confext
205 DDIs can be encrypted against the local SRK but signed with the admin's key
206 and thus can authenticated locally before they are decrypted.
207
208 * image policy should be extended to allow dictating *how* a disk is unlocked,
209 i.e. root=encrypted-tpm2+encrypted-fido2 would mean "root fs must be
210 encrypted and unlocked via fido2 or tpm2, but not otherwise"
211
212 * systemd-repart: add support for formatting dm-crypt + dm-integrity file
213 systems.
214
215 * homed: use systemd-storagetm to expose home dirs via nvme-tcp. Then,
216 teach homed/pam_systemd_homed with a user name such as
217 lennart%nvme_tcp_192.168.100.77_8787 to log in from any linux host with the
218 same home dir. Similar maybe for nbd, iscsi? this should then first ask for
219 the local root pw, to authenticate that logging in like this is ok, and would
220 then be followed by another password prompt asking for the user's own
221 password. Also, do something similar for CIFS: if you log in via
222 lennart%cifs-someserver_someshare, then set up the homed dir for it
223 automatically. The PAM module should update the user name used for login to
224 the short version once it set up the user. Some care should be taken, so that
225 the long version can be still be resolved via NSS afterwards, to deal with
226 PAM clients that do not support PAM sessions where PAM_USER changes half-way.
227
228 * redefine /var/lib/extensions/ as the dir one can place all three of sysext,
229 confext as well is multi-modal DDIs that qualify as both. Then introduce
230 /var/lib/sysexts/ which can be used to place only DDIs that shall be used as
231 sysext
232
233 * in pid1: move out all cgroup state settings from Unit into a new object
234 CGroupState or so which is allocated when we realize the unit into a cgroup,
235 and then remains referenced by it. The new object should also carry an fd to
236 the realized cgroup, to pin it (and later execute all cgroup operations over,
237 once we drop cgroupv1 compat).
238
239 * add new "systemd-ssh-generator", which allows basic ssh config via
240 credentials (host key). It generates sshd.socket for IP, but also
241 sshd-vsock.socket for listening on AF_VSOCK when running in a VM, and
242 sshd-unix.socket on AF_UNIX when running in a container. It also generates a
243 matching sshd.service file with a host key passed in on the cmdline via
244 credentials. Then, add a ssh_config drop-in that matches some suitable
245 hostname pattern and has a ProxyCommand set that allows connecting to any
246 local VM/container that way without any networking configured.
247
248 * Varlinkification of the following command line tools, to open them up to
249 other programs via IPC:
250 - bootctl
251 - journalctl (allowing journal read access via IPC)
252 - coredumpcl
253 - systemd-bless-boot
254 - systemd-measure
255 - systemd-creds (allowing clients to encrypt credentials locally)
256 - systemd-cryptenroll (to allow UIs to enroll FIDO2 keys and such)
257 - systemd-dissect
258 - systemd-sysupdate
259 - systemd-analyze
260 - kernel-install
261
262 * Varlink: add glue code to allow varlink clients to be authenticated via
263 Polkit by passing client pidfd over.
264
265 * in the service manager, pick up ERRNO= + BUSERROR= + VARLINKERROR= error
266 identifiers, and store them along with the exit status of a server and report
267 via "systemctl status".
268
269 * enumerate virtiofs devices during boot-up in a generator, and synthesize
270 mounts for rootfs, /usr/, /home/, /srv/ and some others from it, depending on
271 the "tag". (waits for: https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd/-/issues/128)
272
273 * automatically mount one virtiofs during early boot phase to /run/host/,
274 similar to how we do that for nspawn, based on some clear tag.
275
276 * add some service that makes an atomic snapshot of PCR state and event log up
277 to that point available, possibly even with quote by the TPM.
278
279 * encode type1 entries in some UKI section to add additional entries to the
280 menu.
281
282 * Add ACL-based access management to .socket units. i.e. add AllowPeerUser= +
283 AllowPeerGroup= that installs additional user/group ACL entries on AF_UNIX
284 sockets.
285
286 * systemd-tpm2-setup should probably have a factory reset logic, i.e. when some
287 kernel command line option is set we reset the TPM (equivalent of tpm2_clear
288 -c owner?).
289
290 * systemd-tpm2-setup should support a mode where we refuse booting if the SRK
291 changed. (Must be opt-in, to not break systems which are supposed to be
292 migratable between PCs)
293
294 * when systemd-sysext learns mutable /usr/ (and systemd-confext mutable /etc/)
295 then allow them to store the result in a .v/ versioned subdir, for some basic
296 snapshot logic
297
298 * add a new PE binary section ".mokkeys" or so which sd-stub will insert into
299 Mok keyring, by overriding/extending whatever shim sets in the EFI
300 var. Benefit: we can extend the kernel module keyring at ukify time,
301 i.e. without recompiling the kernel, taking an upstream OS' kernel and adding
302 a local key to it.
303
304 * PidRef conversion work:
305 - cg_pid_get_xyz()
306 - pid_from_same_root_fs()
307 - get_ctty_devnr()
308 - pid1: sd_notify() receiver should use SCM_PIDFD to authenticate client
309 - actually wait for POLLIN on pidref's pidfd in service logic
310 - exec_spawn() + safe_fork()
311 - openpt_allocate_in_namespace()
312 - sd_bus_creds
313 - unit_attach_pid_to_cgroup_via_bus()
314 - cg_attach() – requires new kernel feature
315 - varlink_get_peer_pid()
316
317 * ddi must be listed as block device fstype
318
319 * measure some string via pcrphase whenever we end up booting into emergency
320 mode.
321
322 * homed: add a basic form of secrets management to homed, that stores
323 secrets in $HOME somewhere, is protected by the accounts own authentication
324 mechanisms. Should implement something PKCS#11-like that can be used to
325 implement emulated FIDO2 in unpriv userspace on top (which should happen
326 outside of homed), emulated PKCS11, and libsecrets support. Operate with a
327 2nd key derived from volume key of the user, with which to wrap all
328 keys. maintain keys in kernel keyring if possible.
329
330 * use sd-event ratelimit feature optionally for journal stream clients that log
331 too much
332
333 * systemd-mount should only consider modern file systems when mounting, similar
334 to systemd-dissect
335
336 * add another PE section ".fname" or so that encodes the intended filename for
337 PE file, and validate that when loading add-ons and similar before using
338 it. This is particularly relevant when we load multiple add-ons and want to
339 sort them to apply them in a define order. The order should not be under
340 control of the attacker.
341
342 * also include packaging metadata (á la
343 https://systemd.io/ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA/) in our UEFI PE binaries, using the
344 same JSON format.
345
346 * make "bootctl install" + "bootctl update" useful for installing shim too. For
347 that introduce new dir /usr/lib/systemd/efi/extra/ which we copy mostly 1:1
348 into the ESP at install time. Then make the logic smart enough so that we
349 don't overwrite bootx64.efi with our own if the extra tree already contains
350 one. Also, follow symlinks when copying, so that shim rpm can symlink their
351 stuff into our dir (which is safe since the target ESP is generally VFAT and
352 thus does not have symlinks anyway). Later, teach the update logic to look at
353 the ELF package metadata (which we also should include in all PE files, see
354 above) for version info in all *.EFI files, and use it to only update if
355 newer.
356
357 * in sd-stub: optionally add support for a new PE section .keyring or so that
358 contains additional certificates to include in the Mok keyring, extending
359 what shim might have placed there. why? let's say I use "ukify" to build +
360 sign my own fedora-based UKIs, and only enroll my personal lennart key via
361 shim. Then, I want to include the fedora keyring in it, so that kmods work.
362 But I might not want to enroll the fedora key in shim, because this would
363 also mean that the key would be in effect whenever I boot an archlinux UKI
364 built the same way, signed with the same lennart key.
365
366 * resolved: take possession of some IPv6 ULA address (let's say
367 fd00:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353:5353), and listen on port 53 on it for the
368 local stubs, so that we can make the stub available via ipv6 too.
369
370 * introduce a .microcode PE section for sd-stub which we'll pass as first initrd
371 to the kernel which will then upload it to the CPU. This should be distinct
372 from .initrd to guarantee right ordering. also, and maybe more importantly
373 support .microcode in PE add-ons, so that a microcode update can be shipped
374 independently of any kernel.
375
376 * Maybe add SwitchRootEx() as new bus call that takes env vars to set for new
377 PID 1 as argument. When adding SwitchRootEx() we should maybe also add a
378 flags param that allows disabling and enabling whether serialization is
379 requested during switch root.
380
381 * introduce a .acpitable section for early ACPI table override
382
383 * add proper .osrel matching for PE addons. i.e. refuse applying an addon
384 intended for a different OS. Take inspiration from how confext/sysext are
385 matched against OS.
386
387 * figure out what to do about credentials sealed to PCRs in kexec + soft-reboot
388 scenarios. Maybe insist sealing is done additionally against some keypair in
389 the TPM to which access is updated on each boot, for the next, or so?
390
391 * logind: when logging in, always take an fd to the home dir, to keep the dir
392 busy, so that autofs release can never happen. (this is generally a good
393 idea, and specifically works around the fact the autofs ignores busy by mount
394 namespaces)
395
396 * mount most file systems with a restrictive uidmap. e.g. mount /usr/ with a
397 uidmap that blocks out anything outside 0…1000 (i.e. system users) and similar.
398
399 * mount the root fs with MS_NOSUID by default, and then mount /usr/ without
400 both so that suid executables can only be placed there. Do this already in
401 the initrd. If /usr/ is not split out create a bind mount automatically.
402
403 * fix our various hwdb lookup keys to end with ":" again. The original idea was
404 that hwdb patterns can match arbitrary fields with expressions like
405 "*:foobar:*", to wildcard match both the start and the end of the string.
406 This only works safely for later extensions of the string if the strings
407 always end in a colon. This requires updating our udev rules, as well as
408 checking if the various hwdb files are fine with that.
409
410 * mount /tmp/ and /var/tmp with a uidmap applied that blocks out "nobody" user
411 among other things such as dynamic uid ranges for containers and so on. That
412 way no one can create files there with these uids and we enforce they are only
413 used transiently, never persistently.
414
415 * rework loopback support in fstab: when "loop" option is used, then
416 instantiate a new systemd-loop@.service for the source path, set the
417 lo_file_name field for it to something recognizable derived from the fstab
418 line, and then generate a mount unit for it using a udev generated symlink
419 based on lo_file_name.
420
421 * remove tomoyo support, it's obsolete and unmaintained apparently
422
423 * In .socket units, add ConnectStream=, ConnectDatagram=,
424 ConnectSequentialPacket= that create a socket, and then *connect to* rather than
425 listen on some socket. Then, add a new setting WriteData= that takes some
426 base64 data that systemd will write into the socket early on. This can then
427 be used to create connections to arbitrary services and issue requests into
428 them, as long as the data is static. This can then be combined with the
429 aforementioned journald subscription varlink service, to enable
430 activation-by-message id and similar.
431
432 * .service with invalid Sockets= starts successfully.
433
434 * landlock: lock down RuntimeDirectory= via landlock, so that services lose
435 ability to write anywhere else below /run/. Similar for
436 StateDirectory=. Benefit would be clear delegation via unit files: services
437 get the directories they get, and nothing else even if they wanted to.
438
439 * landlock: for unprivileged systemd (i.e. systemd --user), use landlock to
440 implement ProtectSystem=, ProtectHome= and so on. Landlock does not require
441 privs, and we can implement pretty similar behaviour. Also, maybe add a mode
442 where ProtectSystem= combined with an explicit PrivateMounts=no could request
443 similar behaviour for system services, too.
444
445 * Add systemd-mount@.service which is instantiated for a block device and
446 invokes systemd-mount and exits. This is then useful to use in
447 ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} in udev rules, and a bit prettier than using RUN+=
448
449 * udevd: extend memory pressure logic: also kill any idle worker processes
450
451 * udevadm: to make symlink querying with udevadm nicer:
452 - do not enable the pager for queries like 'udevadm info -q -r symlink'
453 - add mode with newlines instead of spaces (for grep)?
454
455 * SIGRTMIN+18 and memory pressure handling should still be added to: hostnamed,
456 localed, oomd, timedated.
457
458 * repart/gpt-auto/DDIs: maybe introduce a concept of "extension" partitions,
459 that have a new type uuid and can "extend" earlier partitions, to work around
460 the fact that systemd-repart can only grow the last partition defined. During
461 activation we'd simply set up a dm-linear mapping to merge them again. A
462 partition that is to be extended would just set a bit in the partition flags
463 field to indicate that there's another extension partition to look for. The
464 identifying UUID of the extension partition would be hashed in counter mode
465 from the uuid of the original partition it extends. Inspiration for this is
466 the "dynamic partitions" concept of new Android. This would be a minimalistic
467 concept of a volume manager, with the extents it manages being exposes as GPT
468 partitions. I a partition is extended multiple times they should probably
469 grow exponentially in size to ensure O(log(n)) time for finding them on
470 access.
471
472 * Use CLONE_INTO_CGROUP to spawn systemd-executor, once glibc supports it in
473 posix_spawn().
474
475 * Make nspawn to a frontend for systemd-executor, so that we have to ways into
476 the executor: via unit files/dbus/varlink through PID1 and via cmdline/OCI
477 through nspawn.
478
479 * sd-stub: detect if we are running with uefi console output on serial, and if so
480 automatically add console= to kernel cmdline matching the same port.
481
482 * add a utility that can be used with the kernel's
483 CONFIG_STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH and then handles them within pid1 so that
484 security, resource management and cgroup settings can be enforced properly
485 for all umh processes.
486
487 * systemd-shutdown: keep sending sd_notify() status updates immediately before
488 going down, in particular include the "reboot param" string.
489
490 * homed: when resizing an fs don't sync identity beforehand there might simply
491 not be enough disk space for that. try to be defensive and sync only after
492 resize.
493
494 * homed: if for some reason the partition ended up being much smaller than
495 whole disk, recover from that, and grow it again.
496
497 * timesyncd: when saving/restoring clock try to take boot time into account.
498 Specifically, along with the saved clock, store the current boot ID. When
499 starting, check if the boot id matches. If so, don't do anything (we are on
500 the same boot and clock just kept running anyway). If not, then read
501 CLOCK_BOOTTIME (which started at boot), and add it to the saved clock
502 timestamp, to compensate for the time we spent booting. If EFI timestamps are
503 available, also include that in the calculation. With this we'll then only
504 miss the time spent during shutdown after timesync stopped and before the
505 system actually reset.
506
507 * systemd-stub: maybe store a "boot counter" in the ESP, and pass it down to
508 userspace to allow ordering boots (for example in journalctl). The counter
509 would be monotonically increased on every boot.
510
511 * pam_systemd_home: add module parameter to control whether to only accept
512 only password or only pcks11/fido2 auth, and then use this to hook nicely
513 into two of the three PAM stacks gdm provides.
514 See discussion at https://github.com/authselect/authselect/pull/311
515
516 * sd-boot: make boot loader spec type #1 accept http urls in "linux"
517 lines. Then, do the uefi http dance to download kernels and boot them. This
518 is then useful for network boot, by embedding a cpio with type #1 snippets
519 in sd-boot, which reference remote kernels.
520
521 * maybe prohibit setuid() to the nobody user, to lock things down, via seccomp.
522 the nobody is not a user any code should run under, ever, as that user would
523 possibly get a lot of access to resources it really shouldn't be getting
524 access to due to the userns + nfs semantics of the user. Alternatively: use
525 the seccomp log action, and allow it.
526
527 * sd-boot: add a new PE section .bls or so that carries a cpio with additional
528 boot loader entries (both type1 and type2). Then when initializing, find this
529 section, iterate through it and populate menu with it. cpio is simple enough
530 to make a parser for this reasonably robust. use same path structures as in
531 the ESP. Similar add one for signature key drop-ins.
532
533 * sd-boot: also allow passing in the cpio as in the previous item via SMBIOS
534
535 * add a new EFI tool "sd-fetch" or so. It looks in a PE section ".url" for an
536 URL, then downloads the file from it using UEFI HTTP APIs, and executes it.
537 Use case: provide a minimal ESP with sd-boot and a couple of these sd-fetch
538 binaries in place of UKIs, and download them on-the-fly.
539
540 * maybe: systemd-loop-generator that sets up loopback devices if requested via kernel
541 cmdline. use case: include encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
542
543 * systemd-gpt-auto-generator: add kernel cmdline option to override block
544 device to dissect. also support dissecting a regular file. useccase: include
545 encrypted/verity root fs in UKI.
546
547 * sd-stub: add ".bootcfg" section for kernel bootconfig data (as per
548 https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/bootconfig.html)
549
550 * tpm2: add (optional) support for generating a local signing key from PCR 15
551 state. use private key part to sign PCR 7+14 policies. stash signatures for
552 expected PCR7+14 policies in EFI var. use public key part in disk encryption.
553 generate new sigs whenever db/dbx/mok/mokx gets updated. that way we can
554 securely bind against SecureBoot/shim state, without having to renroll
555 everything on each update (but we still have to generate one sig on each
556 update, but that should be robust/idempotent). needs rollback protection, as
557 usual.
558
559 * Lennart: big blog story about DDIs
560
561 * Lennart: big blog story about building initrds
562
563 * Lennart: big blog story about "why systemd-boot"
564
565 * bpf: see if we can use BPF to solve the syslog message cgroup source problem:
566 one idea would be to patch source sockaddr of all AF_UNIX/SOCK_DGRAM to
567 implicitly contain the source cgroup id. Another idea would be to patch
568 sendto()/connect()/sendmsg() sockaddr on-the-fly to use a different target
569 sockaddr.
570
571 * bpf: see if we can address opportunistic inode sharing of immutable fs images
572 with BPF. i.e. if bpf gives us power to hook into openat() and return a
573 different inode than is requested for which we however it has same contents
574 then we can use that to implement opportunistic inode sharing among DDIs:
575 make all DDIs ship xattr on all reg files with a SHA256 hash. Then, also
576 dictate that DDIs should come with a top-level subdir where all reg files are
577 linked into by their SHA256 sum. Then, whenever an inode is opened with the
578 xattr set, check bpf table to find dirs with hashes for other prior DDIs and
579 try to use inode from there.
580
581 * extend the verity signature partition to permit multiple signatures for the
582 same root hash, so that people can sign a single image with multiple keys.
583
584 * consider adding a new partition type, just for /opt/ for usage in system
585 extensions
586
587 * gpt-auto-discovery: also use the pkcs7 signature stuff, and pass signature to
588 kernel. So far we only did this for the various --image= switches, but not
589 for the root fs or /usr/.
590
591 * dissection policy should enforce that unlocking can only take place by
592 certain means, i.e. only via pw, only via tpm2, or only via fido, or a
593 combination thereof.
594
595 * make the systemd-repart "seed" value provisionable via credentials, so that
596 confidential computing environments can set it and deterministically
597 enforce the uuids for partitions created, so that they can calculate PCR 15
598 ahead of time.
599
600 * systemd-repart: also derive the volume key from the seed value, for the
601 aforementioned purpose.
602
603 * in the initrd: derive the default machine ID to pass to the host PID 1 via
604 $machine_id from the same seed credential.
605
606 * Add systemd-sysupdate-initrd.service or so that runs systemd-sysupdate in the
607 initrd to bootstrap the initrd to populate the initial partitions. Some things
608 to figure out:
609 - Should it run on firstboot or on every boot?
610 - If run on every boot, should it use the sysupdate config from the host on
611 subsequent boots?
612
613 * provide an API (probably IPC) to apps to encrypt/decrypt
614 credentials. use case: allow bluez bluetooth daemon to pass pairings to initrd
615 that way, without shelling out to our tools.
616
617 * revisit default PCR bindings in cryptenroll and systemd-creds. Currently they
618 use PCR 7 which should contain secureboot state db/dbx. Which sounded like a
619 safe bet, given that it should change only on policy changes, and not
620 software updates. But that's wrong. Recent fwupd (rightfully) contains code
621 for updating the dbx denylist. This means even without any active policy
622 change PCR 7 might change. Hence, better idea might be in systemd-creds to
623 default to PCR 15 at least if sd-stub is used (i.e. bind to system identity),
624 and in cryptsetup simply the empty list? Also, PCR 14 almost certainly should
625 be included as much as PCR 7 (as it contains shim's policy, which is
626 certainly as relevant as PCR 7 on many systems)
627
628 * To mimic the new tpm2-measure-pcr= crypttab option add the same to veritytab
629 (measuring the root hash) and integritytab (measuring the HMAC key if one is
630 used)
631
632 * We should start measuring all services, containers, and system extensions we
633 activate. probably into PCR 13. i.e. add --tpm2-measure-pcr= or so to
634 systemd-nspawn, and MeasurePCR= to unit files. Should contain a measurement
635 of the activated configuration and the image that is being activated (in case
636 verity is used, hash of the root hash).
637
638 * bootspec: permit graceful "update" from type #2 to type #1. If both a type #1
639 and a type #2 entry exist under otherwise the exact same name, then use the
640 type #1 entry, and ignore the type #2 entry. This way, people can "upgrade"
641 from the UKI with all parameters baked in to a Type #1 .conf file with manual
642 parametrization, if needed. This matches our usual rule that admin config
643 should win over vendor defaults.
644
645 * write a "search path" spec, that documents the prefixes to search in
646 (i.e. the usual /etc/, /run/, /usr/lib/ dance, potentially /usr/etc/), how to
647 sort found entries, how masking works and overriding.
648
649 * automatic boot assessment: add one more default success check that just waits
650 for a bit after boot, and blesses the boot if the system stayed up that long.
651
652 * implement concept of "versioned" resources inside a dir, and write a spec for
653 it. Make all tools in systemd, in particular
654 RootImage=/RootDirectory=/--image=/--directory= implement this. Idea:
655 directories ending in ".v/" indicate a directory with versioned resources in
656 them. Versioned resources inside a .v dir are always named in the pattern
657 <prefix>_<version>[+<tries-left>[-<tries-done>]].<suffix>
658
659 * add support for using this .v/ logic on the root fs itself: in the initrd,
660 after mounting the rootfs, look for root-<arch>.v/ in the root fs, and then
661 apply the logic, moving the switch root logic there.
662
663 * systemd-repart: add support for generating ISO9660 images
664
665 * systemd-repart: in addition to the existing "factory reset" mode (which
666 simply empties existing partitions marked for that). add a mode where
667 partitions marked for it are entirely removed. Use case: remove secondary OS
668 copy, and redundant partitions entirely, and recreate them anew.
669
670 * systemd-boot: maybe add support for collapsing menu entries of the same OS
671 into one item that can be opened (like in a "tree view" UI element) or
672 collapsed. If only a single OS is installed, disable this mode, but if
673 multiple OSes are installed might make sense to default to it, so that user
674 is not immediately bombarded with a multitude of Linux kernel versions but
675 only one for each OS.
676
677 * systemd-repart: if the GPT *disk* UUID (i.e. the one global for the entire
678 disk) is set to all FFFFF then use this as trigger for factory reset, in
679 addition to the existing mechanisms via EFI variables and kernel command
680 line. Benefit: works also on non-EFI systems, and can be requested on one
681 boot, for the next.
682
683 * systemd-sysupdate: make transport pluggable, so people can plug casync or
684 similar behind it, instead of http.
685
686 * systemd-tmpfiles: add concept for conditionalizing lines on factory reset
687 boot, or on first boot.
688
689 * in UKIs: add way to define allowlist of additional words that can be added to
690 the kernel cmdline even in SecureBoot mode
691
692 * we probably needs .pcrpkeyrd or so as additional PE section in UKIs,
693 which contains a separate public key for PCR values that only apply in the
694 initrd, i.e. in the boot phase "enter-initrd". Then, consumers in userspace
695 can easily bind resources to just the initrd. Similar, maybe one more for
696 "enter-initrd:leave-initrd" for resources that shall be accessible only
697 before unprivileged user code is allowed. (we only need this for .pcrpkey,
698 not for .pcrsig, since the latter is a list of signatures anyway). With that,
699 when you enroll a LUKS volume or similar, pick either the .pcrkey (for
700 coverage through all phases of the boot, but excluding shutdown), the
701 .pcrpkeyrd (for coverage in the initrd only) and .pcrpkeybt (for coverage
702 until users are allowed to log in).
703
704 * Once the root fs LUKS volume key is measured into PCR 15, default to binding
705 credentials to PCR 15 in "systemd-creds"
706
707 * add support for asymmetric LUKS2 TPM based encryption. i.e. allow preparing
708 an encrypted image on some host given a public key belonging to a specific
709 other host, so that only hosts possessing the private key in the TPM2 chip
710 can decrypt the volume key and activate the volume. Use case: systemd-confext
711 for a central orchestrator to generate confext images securely that can only
712 be activated on one specific host (which can be used for installing a bunch
713 of creds in /etc/credstore/ for example). Extending on this: allow binding
714 LUKS2 TPM based encryption also to the TPM2 internal clock. Net result:
715 prepare a confext image that can only be activated on a specific host that
716 runs a specific software in a specific time window. confext would be
717 automatically invalidated outside of it.
718
719 * maybe add a "systemd-report" tool, that generates a TPM2-backed "report" of
720 current system state, i.e. a combination of PCR information, local system
721 time and TPM clock, running services, recent high-priority log
722 messages/coredumps, system load/PSI, signed by the local TPM chip, to form an
723 enhanced remote attestation quote. Use case: a simple orchestrator could use
724 this: have the report tool upload these reports every 3min somewhere. Then
725 have the orchestrator collect these reports centrally over a 3min time
726 window, and use them to determine what which node should now start/stop what,
727 and generate a small confext for each node, that uses Uphold= to pin services
728 on each node. The confext would be encrypted using the asymmetric encryption
729 proposed above, so that it can only be activated on the specific host, if the
730 software is in a good state, and within a specific time frame. Then run a
731 loop on each node that sends report to orchestrator and then sysupdate to
732 update confext. Orchestrator would be stateless, i.e. operate on desired
733 config and collected reports in the last 3min time window only, and thus can
734 be trivially scaled up since all instances of the orchestrator should come to
735 the same conclusions given the same inputs of reports/desired workload info.
736 Could also be used to deliver Wireguard secrets and thus to clients, thus
737 permitting zero-trust networking: secrets are rolled over via confext updates,
738 and via the time window TPM logic invalidated if node doesn't keep itself
739 updated, or becomes corrupted in some way.
740
741 * in the initrd, once the rootfs encryption key has been measured to PCR 15,
742 derive default machine ID to use from it, and pass it to host PID 1.
743
744 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to use sd_event_set_signal_exit(), instead
745 of manually hooking into SIGINT/SIGTERM
746
747 * tree-wide: convert as much as possible over to SD_EVENT_SIGNAL_PROCMASK
748 instead of manual blocking.
749
750 * sd-boot: for each installed OS, grey out older entries (i.e. all but the
751 newest), to indicate they are obsolete
752
753 * automatically propagate LUKS password credential into cryptsetup from host
754 (i.e. SMBIOS type #11, …), so that one can unlock LUKS via VM hypervisor
755 supplied password.
756
757 * add ability to path_is_valid() to classify paths that refer to a dir from
758 those which may refer to anything, and use that in various places to filter
759 early. i.e. stuff ending in "/", "/." and "/.." definitely refers to a
760 directory, and paths ending that way can be refused early in many contexts.
761
762 * systemd-measure: allow operating with PEM certificates in addition to PEM
763 public keys when signing PCR values. SecureBoot and our Verity signatures
764 operate with certificates already, hence I guess we should also just deal for
765 convenience with certificates for the PCR stuff too.
766
767 * systemd-measure: add --pcrpkey-auto as an alternative to --pcrpkey=, where it
768 would just use the same public key specified with --public-key= (or the one
769 automatically derived from --private-key=).
770
771 * push people to use ".sysext.raw" as suffix for sysext DDIs (DDI =
772 discoverable disk images, i.e. the new name for gpt disk images following the
773 discoverable disk spec). [Also: just ".sysext/" for directory-based sysext]
774
775 * Add "purpose" flag to partition flags in discoverable partition spec that
776 indicate if partition is intended for sysext, for portable service, for
777 booting and so on. Then, when dissecting DDI allow specifying a purpose to
778 use as additional search condition. Use case: images that combined a sysext
779 partition with a portable service partition in one.
780
781 * On boot, auto-generate an asymmetric key pair from the TPM,
782 and use it for validating DDIs and credentials. Maybe upload it to the kernel
783 keyring, so that the kernel does this validation for us for verity and kernel
784 modules
785
786 * for systemd-confext: add a tool that can generate suitable DDIs with verity +
787 sig using squashfs-tools-ng's library. Maybe just systemd-repart called under
788 a new name with a built-in config?
789
790 * lock down acceptable encrypted credentials at boot, via simple allowlist,
791 maybe on kernel command line:
792 systemd.import_encrypted_creds=foobar.waldo,tmpfiles.extra to protect locked
793 down kernels from credentials generated on the host with a weak kernel
794
795 * Add support for extra verity configuration options to systemd-repart (FEC,
796 hash type, etc)
797
798 * chase(): take inspiration from path_extract_filename() and return
799 O_DIRECTORY if input path contains trailing slash.
800
801 * chase(): refuse resolution if trailing slash is specified on input,
802 but final node is not a directory
803
804 * document in boot loader spec that symlinks in XBOOTLDR/ESP are not OK even if
805 non-VFAT fs is used.
806
807 * measure credentials picked up from SMBIOS to some suitable PCR
808
809 * measure GPT and LUKS headers somewhere when we use them (i.e. in
810 systemd-gpt-auto-generator/systemd-repart and in systemd-cryptsetup?)
811
812 * pick up creds from EFI vars
813
814 * Add and pickup tpm2 metadata for creds structure.
815
816 * sd-boot: we probably should include all BootXY EFI variable defined boot
817 entries in our menu, and then suppress ourselves. Benefit: instant
818 compatibility with all other OSes which register things there, in particular
819 on other disks. Always boot into them via NextBoot EFI variable, to not
820 affect PCR values.
821
822 * systemd-measure tool:
823 - pre-calculate PCR 12 (command line) + PCR 13 (sysext) the same way we can precalculate PCR 11
824
825 * in sd-boot: load EFI drivers from a new PE section. That way, one can have a
826 "supercharged" sd-boot binary, that could carry ext4 drivers built-in.
827
828 * sd-bus: document that sd_bus_process() only returns messages that non of the
829 filters/handlers installed on the connection took possession of.
830
831 * sd-device: add an API for acquiring list of child devices, given a device
832 objects (i.e. all child dirents that dirs or symlinks to dirs)
833
834 * sd-device: maybe pin the sysfs dir with an fd, during the entire runtime of
835 an sd_device, then always work based on that.
836
837 * maybe add new flags to gpt partition tables for rootfs and usrfs indicating
838 purpose, i.e. whether something is supposed to be bootable in a VM, on
839 baremetal, on an nspawn-style container, if it is a portable service image,
840 or a sysext for initrd, for host os, or for portable container. Then hook
841 portabled/… up to udev to watch block devices coming up with the flags set, and
842 use it.
843
844 * sd-boot should look for information what to boot in SMBIOS, too, so that VM
845 managers can tell sd-boot what to boot into and suchlike
846
847 * add "systemd-sysext identify" verb, that you can point on any file in /usr/
848 and that determines from which overlayfs layer it originates, which image, and with
849 what it was signed.
850
851 * systemd-creds: extend encryption logic to support asymmetric
852 encryption/authentication. Idea: add new verb "systemd-creds public-key"
853 which generates a priv/pub key pair on the TPM2 and stores the priv key
854 locally in /var. It then outputs a certificate for the pub part to stdout.
855 This can then be copied/taken elsewhere, and can be used for encrypting creds
856 that only the host on its specific hw can decrypt. Then, support a drop-in
857 dir with certificates that can be used to authenticate credentials. Flow of
858 operations is then this: build image with owner certificate, then after
859 boot up issue "systemd-creds public-key" to acquire pubkey of the machine.
860 Then, when passing data to the machine, sign with privkey belonging to one of
861 the dropped in certs and encrypted with machine pubkey, and pass to machine.
862 Machine is then able to authenticate you, and confidentiality is guaranteed.
863
864 * building on top of the above, the pub/priv key pair generated on the TPM2
865 should probably also one you can use to get a remote attestation quote.
866
867 * Process credentials in:
868 • networkd/udevd: add a way to define additional .link, .network, .netdev files
869 via the credentials logic.
870 • crypttab-generator: allow defining additional crypttab-like volumes via
871 credentials (similar: verity-generator, integrity-generator). Use
872 fstab-generator logic as inspiration.
873 • run-generator: allow defining additional commands to run via a credential
874 • resolved: allow defining additional /etc/hosts entries via a credential (it
875 might make sense to then synthesize a new combined /etc/hosts file in /run
876 and bind mount it on /etc/hosts for other clients that want to read it.
877 • repart: allow defining additional partitions via credential
878 • timesyncd: pick NTP server info from credential
879 • portabled: read a credential "portable.extra" or so, that takes a list of
880 file system paths to enable on start.
881 • make systemd-fstab-generator look for a system credential encoding root= or
882 usr=
883 • systemd-homed: when initializing, look for a credential
884 systemd.homed.register or so with JSON user records to automatically
885 register if not registered yet. Use case: deploy a system, and add an
886 account one can directly log into.
887 • in gpt-auto-generator: check partition uuids against such uuids supplied via
888 sd-stub credentials. That way, we can support parallel OS installations with
889 pre-built kernels.
890
891 * define a JSON format for units, separating out unit definitions from unit
892 runtime state. Then, expose it:
893
894 1. Add Describe() method to Unit D-Bus object that returns a JSON object
895 about the unit.
896 2. Expose this natively via Varlink, in similar style
897 3. Use it when invoking binaries (i.e. make PID 1 fork off systemd-executor
898 binary which reads the JSON definition and runs it), to address the cow
899 trap issue and the fact that NSS is actually forbidden in
900 forked-but-not-exec'ed children
901 4. Add varlink API to run transient units based on provided JSON definitions
902
903 * Add SUPPORT_END_URL= field to os-release with more *actionable* information
904 what to do if support ended
905
906 * pam_systemd: on interactive logins, maybe show SUPPORT_END information at
907 login time, à la motd
908
909 * sd-boot: instead of unconditionally deriving the ESP to search boot loader
910 spec entries in from the paths of sd-boot binary, let's optionally allow it
911 to be configured on sd-boot cmdline + efi var. Use case: embed sd-boot in the
912 UEFI firmware (for example, ovmf supports that via qemu cmdline option), and
913 use it to load stuff from the ESP.
914
915 * mount /var/ from initrd, so that we can apply sysext and stuff before the
916 initrd transition. Specifically:
917 1. There should be a var= kernel cmdline option, matching root= and usr=
918 2. systemd-gpt-auto-generator should auto-mount /var if it finds it on disk
919 3. mount.x-initrd mount option in fstab should be implied for /var
920
921 * make persistent restarts easier by adding a new setting OpenPersistentFile=
922 or so, which allows opening one or more files that is "persistent" across
923 service restarts, hot reboot, cold reboots (depending on configuration): the
924 files are created empty on first invocation, and on subsequent invocations
925 the files are reboot. The files would be backed by tmpfs, pmem or /var
926 depending on desired level of persistency.
927
928 * sd-event: add ability to "chain" event sources. Specifically, add a call
929 sd_event_source_chain(x, y), which will automatically enable event source y
930 in oneshot mode once x is triggered. Use case: in src/core/mount.c implement
931 the /proc/self/mountinfo rescan on SIGCHLD with this: whenever a SIGCHLD is
932 seen, trigger the rescan defer event source automatically, and allow it to be
933 dispatched *before* the SIGCHLD is handled (based on priorities). Benefit:
934 dispatch order is strictly controlled by priorities again. (next step: chain
935 event sources to the ratelimit being over)
936
937 * if we fork of a service with StandardOutput=journal, and it forks off a
938 subprocess that quickly dies, we might not be able to identify the cgroup it
939 comes from, but we can still derive that from the stdin socket its output
940 came from. We apparently don't do that right now.
941
942 * add ability to set hostname with suffix derived from machine id at boot
943
944 * add PR_SET_DUMPABLE service setting
945
946 * homed/userdb: maybe define a "companion" dir for home directories where apps
947 can safely put privileged stuff in. Would not be writable by the user, but
948 still conceptually belong to the user. Would be included in user's quota if
949 possible, even if files are not owned by UID of user. Use case: container
950 images that owned by arbitrary UIDs, and are owned/managed by the users, but
951 are not directly belonging to the user's UID. Goal: we shouldn't place more
952 privileged dirs inside of unprivileged dirs, and thus containers really
953 should not be placed inside of traditional UNIX home dirs (which are owned by
954 users themselves) but somewhere else, that is separate, but still close
955 by. Inform user code about path to this companion dir via env var, so that
956 container managers find it. the ~/.identity file is also a candidate for a
957 file to move there, since it is managed by privileged code (i.e. homed) and
958 not unprivileged code.
959
960 * given that /etc/ssh/ssh_config.d/ is a thing now, ship a drop-in for that
961 that hooks up userdbctl ssh-key stuff.
962
963 * maybe add support for binding and connecting AF_UNIX sockets in the file
964 system outside of the 108ch limit. When connecting, open O_PATH fd to socket
965 inode first, then connect to /proc/self/fd/XYZ. When binding, create symlink
966 to target dir in /tmp, and bind through it.
967
968 * add a proper concept of a "developer" mode, i.e. where cryptographic
969 protections of the root OS are weakened after interactive confirmation, to
970 allow hackers to allow their own stuff. idea: allow entering developer mode
971 only via explicit choice in boot menu: i.e. add explicit boot menu item for
972 it. When developer mode is entered, generate a key pair in the TPM2, and add
973 the public part of it automatically to keychain of valid code signature keys
974 on subsequent boots. Then provide a tool to sign code with the key in the
975 TPM2. Ensure that boot menu item is the only way to enter developer mode, by
976 binding it to locality/PCRs so that keys cannot be generated otherwise.
977
978 * services: add support for cryptographically unlocking per-service directories
979 via TPM2. Specifically, for StateDirectory= (and related dirs) use fscrypt to
980 set up the directory so that it can only be accessed if host and app are in
981 order.
982
983 * update HACKING.md to suggest developing systemd with the ideas from:
984 https://0pointer.net/blog/testing-my-system-code-in-usr-without-modifying-usr.html
985 https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html
986
987 * sd-event: compat wd reuse in inotify code: keep a set of removed watch
988 descriptors, and clear this set piecemeal when we see the IN_IGNORED event
989 for it, or when read() returns EAGAIN or on IN_Q_OVERFLOW. Then, whenever we
990 see an inotify wd event check against this set, and if it is contained ignore
991 the event. (to be fully correct this would have to count the occurrences, in
992 case the same wd is reused multiple times before we start processing
993 IN_IGNORED again)
994
995 * for vendor-built signed initrds:
996 - kernel-install should be able to install encrypted creds automatically for
997 machine id, root pw, rootfs uuid, resume partition uuid, and place next to
998 EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up. These creds should be locked to
999 the TPM, and bind to the right PCR the kernel is measured to.
1000 - kernel-install should be able to pick up initrd sysexts automatically and
1001 place them next to EFI kernel, for sd-stub to pick them up.
1002 - systemd-fstab-generator should look for rootfs device to mount in creds
1003 - systemd-resume-generator should look for resume partition uuid in creds
1004 - sd-stub: automatically pick up microcode from ESP (/loader/microcode/*)
1005 and synthesize initrd from it, and measure it. Signing is not necessary, as
1006 microcode does that on its own. Pass as first initrd to kernel.
1007
1008 * Maybe extend the service protocol to support handling of some specific SIGRT
1009 signal for setting service log level, that carries the level via the
1010 sigqueue() data parameter. Enable this via unit file setting.
1011
1012 * sd_notify/vsock: maybe support binding to AF_VSOCK in Type=notify services,
1013 then passing $NOTIFY_SOCKET and $NOTIFY_GUESTCID with PID1's cid (typically
1014 fixed to "2", i.e. the official host cid) and the expected guest cid, for the
1015 two sides of the channel. The latter env var could then be used in an
1016 appropriate qemu cmdline. That way qemu payloads could talk sd_notify()
1017 directly to host service manager.
1018
1019 * sd-device has an API to create an sd_device object from a device id, but has
1020 no api to query the device id
1021
1022 * sd-device should return the devnum type (i.e. 'b' or 'c') via some API for an
1023 sd_device object, so that data passed into sd_device_new_from_devnum() can
1024 also be queried.
1025
1026 * sd-event: optionally, if per-event source rate limit is hit, downgrade
1027 priority, but leave enabled, and once ratelimit window is over, upgrade
1028 priority again. That way we can combat event source starvation without
1029 stopping processing events from one source entirely.
1030
1031 * sd-event: similar to existing inotify support add fanotify support (given
1032 that apparently new features in this area are only going to be added to the
1033 latter).
1034
1035 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for clock changes
1036
1037 * sd-event: add 1st class event source for timezone changes
1038
1039 * support uefi/http boots with sd-boot: instead of looking for dropin files in
1040 /loader/entries/ dir, look for a file /loader/entries/SHA256SUMS and use that
1041 as directory manifest. The file would be a standard directory listing as
1042 generated by GNU sha256sums.
1043
1044 * sd-boot: maybe add support for embedding the various auxiliary resources we
1045 look for right in the sd-boot binary. i.e. take inspiration from sd-stub
1046 logic: allow combining sd-boot via ukify with kernels to enumerate, .conf
1047 files, drivers, keys to enroll and so on. Then, add whatever we find that way
1048 to the menu. Use case: allow building a single PE image you can boot into via
1049 UEFI HTTP boot.
1050
1051 * maybe add a new UEFI stub binary "sd-http". It works similar to sd-stub, but
1052 all it does is download a file from a http server, and execute it, after
1053 optionally checking its hash sum. idea would be: combine this "sd-http" stub
1054 binary with some minimal info about a URL + hash sum, plus .osrel data, and
1055 drop it into the unified kernel dir in the ESP. And bam you have something
1056 that is tiny, feels a lot like a unified kernel, but all it does is chainload
1057 the real kernel. benefit: downloading these stubs would be tiny and quick,
1058 hence cheap for enumeration.
1059
1060 * sysext: measure all activated sysext into a TPM PCR
1061
1062 * systemd-dissect: show available versions inside of a disk image, i.e. if
1063 multiple versions are around of the same resource, show which ones. (in other
1064 words: show partition labels).
1065
1066 * maybe add a generator that reads /proc/cmdline, looks for
1067 systemd.pull-raw-portable=, systemd-pull-raw-sysext= and similar switches
1068 that take a URL as parameter. It then generates service units for
1069 systemd-pull calls that download these URLs if not installed yet. Use case:
1070 invoke a VM or nspawn container in a way it automatically deploys/runs these
1071 images as OS payloads. i.e. have a generic OS image you can point to any
1072 payload you like, which is then downloaded, securely verified and run.
1073
1074 * deprecate cgroupsv1 further (print log message at boot)
1075
1076 * systemd-dissect: add --cat switch for dumping files such as /etc/os-release
1077
1078 * per-service sandboxing option: ProtectIds=. If used, will overmount
1079 /etc/machine-id and /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id with synthetic files, to
1080 make it harder for the service to identify the host. Depending on the user
1081 setting it should be fully randomized at invocation time, or a hash of the
1082 real thing, keyed by the unit name or so. Of course, there are other ways to
1083 get these IDs (e.g. journal) or similar ids (e.g. MAC addresses, DMI ids, CPU
1084 ids), so this knob would only be useful in combination with other lockdown
1085 options. Particularly useful for portable services, and anything else that
1086 uses RootDirectory= or RootImage=. (Might also over-mount
1087 /sys/class/dmi/id/*{uuid,serial} with /dev/null).
1088
1089 * doc: prep a document explaining resolved's internal objects, i.e. Query
1090 vs. Question vs. Transaction vs. Stream and so on.
1091
1092 * doc: prep a document explaining PID 1's internal logic, i.e. transactions,
1093 jobs, units
1094
1095 * bootspec: bring UEFI and userspace enumeration of bootspec entries back into
1096 sync, i.e. parse out architecture field in sd-boot (currently only done in
1097 userspace)
1098
1099 * automatically ignore threaded cgroups in cg_xyz().
1100
1101 * add linker script that implicitly adds symbol for build ID and new coredump
1102 json package metadata, and use that when logging
1103
1104 * Enable RestrictFileSystems= for all our long-running services (similar:
1105 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=)
1106
1107 * Add systemd-analyze security checks for RestrictFileSystems= and
1108 RestrictNetworkInterfaces=
1109
1110 * cryptsetup/homed: implement TOTP authentication backed by TPM2 and its
1111 internal clock.
1112
1113 * man: rework os-release(5), and clearly separate our extension-release.d/ and
1114 initrd-release parts, i.e. list explicitly which fields are about what.
1115
1116 * sysext: before applying a sysext, do a superficial validation run so that
1117 things are not rearranged to wildy. I.e. protect against accidental fuckups,
1118 such as masking out /usr/lib/ or so. We should probably refuse if existing
1119 inodes are replaced by other types of inodes or so.
1120
1121 * userdb: when synthesizing NSS records, pick "best" password from defined
1122 passwords, not just the first. i.e. if there are multiple defined, prefer
1123 unlocked over locked and prefer non-empty over empty.
1124
1125 * maybe add a tool inspired by the GPT auto discovery spec that runs in the
1126 initrd and rearranges the rootfs hierarchy via bind mounts, if
1127 enabled. Specifically in some top-level dir /@auto/ it will look for
1128 dirs/symlinks/subvolumes that are named after their purpose, and optionally
1129 encode a version as well as assessment counters, and then mount them into the
1130 file system tree to boot into, similar to how we do that for the gpt auto
1131 logic. Maybe then bind mount the original root into /.superior or something
1132 like that (so that update tools can look there). Further discussion in this
1133 thread:
1134 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-November/047059.html
1135 The GPT dissection logic should automatically enable this tool whenever we
1136 detect a specially marked root fs (i.e introduce a new generic root gpt type
1137 for this, that is arch independent). The also implement this in the image
1138 dissection logic, so that nspawn/RootImage= and so on grok it. Maybe make
1139 generic enough so that it can also work for ostrees arrangements.
1140
1141 * if a path ending in ".auto.d/" is set for RootDirectory=/RootImage= then do a
1142 strverscmp() of everything inside that dir and use that. i.e. implement very
1143 simple version control. Also use this in systemd-nspawn --image= and so on.
1144
1145 * homed: while a home dir is not activated generate slightly different NSS
1146 records for it, that reports the home dir as "/" and the shell as some binary
1147 provided by us. Then, when an SSH login happens and SSH permits it our binary
1148 is invoked. This binary can then talk to homed and activate the homedir if
1149 it's not around yet, prompting the user for a password. Once that succeeded
1150 we'll switch to the real user record, i.e. home dir and shell, and our tool
1151 exec()s the latter. Net effect: ssh'ing into a homed account will just work:
1152 we'll neatly prompt for the homedir's password if its needed. –– Building on
1153 this we could take this even further: since this tool will potentially have
1154 access to the client's ssh-agent (if ssh-agent forwarding is enabled) we
1155 could implement SSH unlocking of a homedir with that: when enrolling a new
1156 ssh pubkey in a user record we'd ask the ssh-agent to sign some random value
1157 with the privkey, then use that as luks key to unlock the home dir. Will not
1158 work for ECDSA keys since their signatures contain a random component, but
1159 will work for RSA and Ed25519 keys.
1160
1161 * add tiny service that decrypts encrypted user records passed via initrd
1162 credential logic and drops them into /run where nss-systemd can pick them up,
1163 similar to /run/host/userdb/. Use case: drop a root user JSON record there,
1164 and use it in the initrd to log in as root with locally selected password,
1165 for debugging purposes. Other use case: boot into qemu with regular user
1166 mounted from host. maybe put this in systemd-user-sessions.service?
1167
1168 * drop dependency on libcap, replace by direct syscalls based on
1169 CapabilityQuintet we already have. (This likely allows us to drop libcap
1170 dep in the base OS image)
1171
1172 * add concept for "exitrd" as inverse of "initrd", that we can transition to at
1173 shutdown, and has similar security semantics. This should then take the place
1174 of dracut's shutdown logic. Should probably support sysexts too. Care needs
1175 to be taken that the resulting logic ends up in RAM, i.e. is copied out of
1176 on-disk storage.
1177
1178 * userdbd: implement an additional varlink service socket that provides the
1179 host user db in restricted form, then allow this to be bind mounted into
1180 sandboxed environments that want the host database in minimal form. All
1181 records would be stripped of all meta info, except the basic UID/name
1182 info. Then use this in portabled environments that do not use PrivateUsers=1.
1183
1184 * portabled: when extracting unit files and copying to system.attached, if a
1185 .p7s is available in the image, use it to protect the system.attached copy
1186 with fs-verity, so that it cannot be tampered with
1187
1188 * logind introduce two types of sessions: "heavy" and "light". The former would
1189 be our current sessions. But the latter would be a new type of session that
1190 is mostly the same but does not pull in user@.service or wait for it. Then,
1191 allow configuration which type of session is desired via pam_systemd
1192 parameters, and then make user@.service's session one of these "light" ones.
1193 People could then choose to make FTP sessions and suchlike "light" if they
1194 don't want the service manager to be started for that.
1195
1196 * /etc/veritytab: allow that the roothash column can be specified as fs path
1197 including a path to an AF_UNIX path, similar to how we do things with the
1198 keys of /etc/crypttab. That way people can store/provide the roothash
1199 externally and provide to us on demand only.
1200
1201 * we probably should extend the root verity hash of the root fs into some PCR
1202 on boot. (i.e. maybe add a veritytab option tpm2-measure=12 or so to measure
1203 it into PCR 12); Similar: we probably should extend the LUKS volume key of
1204 the root fs into some PCR on boot. (i.e. maybe add a crypttab option
1205 tpm2-measure=15 or so to measure it into PCR 15); once both are in place
1206 update gpt-auto-discovery to generate these by default for the partitions it
1207 discovers. Static vendor stuff should probably end up in PCR 12 (i.e. the
1208 verity hash), with local keys in PCR 15 (i.e. the encryption volume
1209 key). That way, we nicely distinguish resources supplied by the OS vendor
1210 (i.e. sysext, root verity) from those inherently local (i.e. encryption key),
1211 which is useful if they shall be signed separately.
1212
1213 * in uefi stub: query firmware regarding which PCR banks are being used, store
1214 that in EFI var. then use this when enrolling TPM2 in cryptsetup to verify
1215 that the selected PCRs actually are used by firmware.
1216
1217 * rework recursive read-only remount to use new mount API
1218
1219 * PAM: pick up authentication token from credentials
1220
1221 * when mounting disk images: if IMAGE_ID/IMAGE_VERSION is set in os-release
1222 data in the image, make sure the image filename actually matches this, so
1223 that images cannot be misused.
1224
1225 * New udev block device symlink names:
1226 /dev/disk/by-parttypelabel/<pttype>-<ptlabel>. Use case: if pt label is used
1227 as partition image version string, this is a safe way to reference a specific
1228 version of a specific partition type, in particular where related partitions
1229 are processed (e.g. verity + rootfs both named "LennartOS_0.7").
1230
1231 * sysupdate:
1232 - add fuzzing to the pattern parser
1233 - support casync as download mechanism
1234 - "systemd-sysupdate update --all" support, that iterates through all components
1235 defined on the host, plus all images installed into /var/lib/machines/,
1236 /var/lib/portable/ and so on.
1237 - figure out what to do about system extensions (i.e. they need to imply an
1238 update component, since otherwise sysupdate.d/ files would override the
1239 host's update files.)
1240 - Allow invocation with a single transfer definition, i.e. with
1241 --definitions= pointing to a file rather than a dir.
1242 - add ability to disable implicit decompression of downloaded artifacts,
1243 i.e. a Compress=no option in the transfer definitions
1244
1245 * in sd-id128: also parse UUIDs in RFC4122 URN syntax (i.e. chop off urn:uuid: prefix)
1246
1247 * DynamicUser= + StateDirectory= → use uid mapping mounts, too, in order to
1248 make dirs appear under right UID.
1249
1250 * systemd-sysext: optionally, run it in initrd already, before transitioning
1251 into host, to open up possibility for services shipped like that.
1252
1253 * introduce /dev/disk/root/* symlinks that allow referencing partitions on the
1254 disk the rootfs is on in a reasonably secure way. (or maybe: add
1255 /dev/gpt-auto-{home,srv,boot,…} similar in style to /dev/gpt-auto-root as we
1256 already have it.
1257
1258 * whenever we receive fds via SCM_RIGHTS make sure none got dropped due to the
1259 reception limit the kernel silently enforces.
1260
1261 * Add service unit setting ConnectStream= which takes IP addresses and connects to them.
1262
1263 * Similar, Load= which takes literal data in text or base64 format, and puts it
1264 into a memfd, and passes that. This enables some fun stuff, such as embedding
1265 bash scripts in unit files, by combining Load= with ExecStart=/bin/bash
1266 /proc/self/fd/3
1267
1268 * add a ConnectSocket= setting to service unit files, that may reference a
1269 socket unit, and which will connect to the socket defined therein, and pass
1270 the resulting fd to the service program via socket activation proto.
1271
1272 * Add a concept of ListenStream=anonymous to socket units: listen on a socket
1273 that is deleted in the fs. Use case would be with ConnectSocket= above.
1274
1275 * importd: support image signature verification with PKCS#7 + OpenBSD signify
1276 logic, as alternative to crummy gpg
1277
1278 * add "systemd-analyze debug" + AttachDebugger= in unit files: The former
1279 specifies a command to execute; the latter specifies that an already running
1280 "systemd-analyze debug" instance shall be contacted and execution paused
1281 until it gives an OK. That way, tools like gdb or strace can be safely be
1282 invoked on processes forked off PID 1.
1283
1284 * expose MS_NOSYMFOLLOW in various places
1285
1286 * credentials system:
1287 - acquire from EFI variable?
1288 - acquire via ask-password?
1289 - acquire creds via keyring?
1290 - pass creds via keyring?
1291 - pass creds via memfd?
1292 - acquire + decrypt creds from pkcs11?
1293 - make systemd-cryptsetup acquire pw via creds logic
1294 - make PAMName= acquire pw via creds logic
1295 - make macsec/wireguard code in networkd read key via creds logic
1296 - make gatwayd/remote read key via creds logic
1297 - add sd_notify() command for flushing out creds not needed anymore
1298 - make user manager instances create and use a user-specific key (the one in
1299 /var/lib is root-only) and add --user switch to systemd-creds to use it
1300
1301 * add tpm.target or so which is delayed until TPM2 device showed up in case
1302 firmware indicates there is one.
1303
1304 * TPM2: auto-reenroll in cryptsetup, as fallback for hosed firmware upgrades
1305 and such
1306
1307 * introduce a new group to own TPM devices
1308
1309 * cryptsetup: add option for automatically removing empty password slot on boot
1310
1311 * cryptsetup: optionally, when run during boot-up and password is never
1312 entered, and we are on battery power (or so), power off machine again
1313
1314 * cryptsetup: when waiting for FIDO2/PKCS#11 token, tell plymouth that, and
1315 allow plymouth to abort the waiting and enter pw instead
1316
1317 * make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
1318
1319 * cryptsetup: allow encoding key directly in /etc/crypttab, maybe with a
1320 "base64:" prefix. Useful in particular for pkcs11 mode.
1321
1322 * cryptsetup: reimplement the mkswap/mke2fs in cryptsetup-generator to use
1323 systemd-makefs.service instead.
1324
1325 * cryptsetup:
1326 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
1327 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
1328
1329 * systemd-analyze netif that explains predictable interface (or networkctl)
1330
1331 * Add service setting to run a service within the specified VRF. i.e. do the
1332 equivalent of "ip vrf exec".
1333
1334 * special case some calls of chase() to use openat2() internally, so
1335 that the kernel does what we otherwise do.
1336
1337 * add a new flag to chase() that stops chasing once the first missing
1338 component is found and then allows the caller to create the rest.
1339
1340 * make use of new glibc 2.32 APIs sigabbrev_np() and strerrorname_np().
1341
1342 * if /usr/bin/swapoff fails due to OOM, log a friendly explanatory message about it
1343
1344 * pid1: support new clone3() fork-into-cgroup feature
1345
1346 * pid1: also remove PID files of a service when the service starts, not just
1347 when it exits
1348
1349 * make us use dynamically fewer deps for containers in general purpose distros:
1350 o turn into dlopen() deps:
1351 - kmod-libs (only when called from PID 1)
1352 - libblkid (only in RootImage= handling in PID 1, but not elsewhere)
1353 - libpam (only when called from PID 1)
1354 - bzip2, xz, lz4 (always — gzip and zstd should probably stay static deps the way they are,
1355 since they are so basic and our defaults)
1356
1357 * seccomp: maybe use seccomp_merge() to merge our filters per-arch if we can.
1358 Apparently kernel performance is much better with fewer larger seccomp
1359 filters than with more smaller seccomp filters.
1360
1361 * systemd-path: add ESP and XBOOTLDR path. Add "private" runtime/state/cache dir enum,
1362 mapping to $RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, $STATE_DIRECTORY and such
1363
1364 * seccomp: by default mask x32 ABI system wide on x86-64. it's on its way out
1365
1366 * seccomp: don't install filters for ABIs that are masked anyway for the
1367 specific service
1368
1369 * busctl: maybe expose a verb "ping" for pinging a dbus service to see if it
1370 exists and responds.
1371
1372 * socket units: allow creating a udev monitor socket with ListenDevices= or so,
1373 with matches, then activate app through that passing socket over
1374
1375 * unify on openssl:
1376 - kill gnutls support in resolved
1377 - figure out what to do about libmicrohttpd, which has a hard dependency on
1378 gnutls
1379 - port fsprg over to a dlopen lib, then switch it to openssl
1380
1381 * add growvol and makevol options for /etc/crypttab, similar to
1382 x-systemd.growfs and x-systemd-makefs.
1383
1384 * userdb: allow username prefix searches in varlink API, allow realname and
1385 realname substr searches in varlink API
1386
1387 * userdb: allow uid/gid range checks
1388
1389 * userdb: allow existence checks
1390
1391 * pid1: activation by journal search expression
1392
1393 * when switching root from initrd to host, set the machine_id env var so that
1394 if the host has no machine ID set yet we continue to use the random one the
1395 initrd had set.
1396
1397 * sd-event: add native support for P_ALL waitid() watching, then move PID 1 to
1398 it for reaping assigned but unknown children. This needs to some special care
1399 to operate somewhat sensibly in light of priorities: P_ALL will return
1400 arbitrary processes, regardless of the priority we want to watch them with,
1401 hence on each event loop iteration check all processes which we shall watch
1402 with higher prio explicitly, and then watch the entire rest with P_ALL.
1403
1404 * tweak sd-event's child watching: keep a prioq of children to watch and use
1405 waitid() only on the children with the highest priority until one is waitable
1406 and ignore all lower-prio ones from that point on
1407
1408 * maybe introduce xattrs that can be set on the root dir of the root fs
1409 partition that declare the volatility mode to use the image in. Previously I
1410 thought marking this via GPT partition flags but that's not ideal since
1411 that's outside of the LUKS encryption/verity verification, and we probably
1412 shouldn't operate in a volatile mode unless we got told so from a trusted
1413 source.
1414
1415 * coredump: maybe when coredumping read a new xattr from /proc/$PID/exe that
1416 may be used to mark a whole binary as non-coredumpable. Would fix:
1417 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69447
1418
1419 * teach parse_timestamp() timezones like the calendar spec already knows it
1420
1421 * beef up s2h to implement a battery watch loop: instead of entering
1422 hibernation unconditionally after coming back from resume make a decision
1423 based on the battery load level: if battery level is above a specific
1424 threshold, go to suspend again, only hibernate if below it. This means we'd
1425 stick to suspend usually, but fall back to hibernation only when battery runs
1426 empty (well, subject to our sampling interval). Related to this, check if we
1427 can make ACPI _BTP (i.e. /sys/class/power_supply/*/alarm) work for us too,
1428 i.e. see if it can wake up machines from suspend, so that we could resume
1429 automatically when the system is low on power and move automatically to
1430 hibernation mode. (see
1431 https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI%206_2_A_Sept29.pdf
1432 section 10.2.2.8 and
1433 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby-wake-sources
1434 at the end).
1435
1436 * We should probably replace /etc/rc.d/README with a symlink to doc
1437 content. After all it is constant vendor data.
1438
1439 * maybe add kernel cmdline params: to force random seed crediting
1440
1441 * introduce a new per-process uuid, similar to the boot id, the machine id, the
1442 invocation id, that is derived from process creds, specifically a hashed
1443 combination of AT_RANDOM + getpid() + the starttime from
1444 /proc/self/status. Then add these ids implicitly when logging. Deriving this
1445 uuid from these three things has the benefit that it can be derived easily
1446 from /proc/$PID/ in a stable, and unique way that changes on both fork() and
1447 exec().
1448
1449 * let's not GC a unit while its ratelimits are still pending
1450
1451 * when killing due to service watchdog timeout maybe detect whether target
1452 process is under ptracing and then log loudly and continue instead.
1453
1454 * make rfkill uaccess controllable by default, i.e. steal rule from
1455 gnome-bluetooth and friends
1456
1457 * make MAINPID= message reception checks even stricter: if service uses User=,
1458 then check sending UID and ignore message if it doesn't match the user or
1459 root.
1460
1461 * maybe trigger a uevent "change" on a device if "systemctl reload xyz.device"
1462 is issued.
1463
1464 * when importing an fs tree with machined, optionally apply userns-rec-chown
1465
1466 * when importing an fs tree with machined, complain if image is not an OS
1467
1468 * Maybe introduce a helper safe_exec() or so, which is to execve() which
1469 safe_fork() is to fork(). And then make revert the RLIMIT_NOFILE soft limit
1470 to 1K implicitly, unless explicitly opted-out.
1471
1472 * rework seccomp/nnp logic that even if User= is used in combination with
1473 a seccomp option we don't have to set NNP. For that, change uid first whil
1474 keeping CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then apply seccomp, the drop cap.
1475
1476 * when no locale is configured, default to UEFI's PlatformLang variable
1477
1478 * add a new syscall group "@esoteric" for more esoteric stuff such as bpf() and
1479 usefaultd() and make systemd-analyze check for it.
1480
1481 * paranoia: whenever we process passwords, call mlock() on the memory
1482 first. i.e. look for all places we use free_and_erasep() and
1483 augment them with mlock(). Also use MADV_DONTDUMP.
1484 Alternatively (preferably?) use memfd_secret().
1485
1486 * Move RestrictAddressFamily= to the new cgroup create socket
1487
1488 * optionally: turn on cgroup delegation for per-session scope units
1489
1490 * sd-boot: optionally, show boot menu when previous default boot item has
1491 non-zero "tries done" count
1492
1493 * augment CODE_FILE=, CODE_LINE= with something like CODE_BASE= or so which
1494 contains some identifier for the project, which allows us to include
1495 clickable links to source files generating these log messages. The identifier
1496 could be some abberviated URL prefix or so (taking inspiration from Go
1497 imports). For example, for systemd we could use
1498 CODE_BASE=github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/98b0b1123cc or so which is
1499 sufficient to build a link by prefixing "http://" and suffixing the
1500 CODE_FILE.
1501
1502 * Augment MESSAGE_ID with MESSAGE_BASE, in a similar fashion so that we can
1503 make clickable links from log messages carrying a MESSAGE_ID, that lead to
1504 some explanatory text online.
1505
1506 * maybe extend .path units to expose fanotify() per-mount change events
1507
1508 * hibernate/s2h: if swap is on weird storage and refuse if so
1509
1510 * cgroups: use inotify to get notified when somebody else modifies cgroups
1511 owned by us, then log a friendly warning.
1512
1513 * beef up log.c with support for stripping ANSI sequences from strings, so that
1514 it is OK to include them in log strings. This would be particularly useful so
1515 that our log messages could contain clickable links for example for unit
1516 files and suchlike we operate on.
1517
1518 * importd: add ability download images for portabled + sysext
1519
1520 * add support for "portablectl attach http://foobar.com/waaa.raw (i.e. importd integration)
1521
1522 * sync dynamic uids/gids between host+portable srvice (i.e. if DynamicUser=1 is set for a service, make sure that the
1523 selected user is resolvable in the service even if it ships its own /etc/passwd)
1524
1525 * Fix DECIMAL_STR_MAX or DECIMAL_STR_WIDTH. One includes a trailing NUL, the
1526 other doesn't. What a disaster. Probably to exclude it.
1527
1528 * Check that users of inotify's IN_DELETE_SELF flag are using it properly, as
1529 usually IN_ATTRIB is the right way to watch deleted files, as the former only
1530 fires when a file is actually removed from disk, i.e. the link count drops to
1531 zero and is not open anymore, while the latter happens when a file is
1532 unlinked from any dir.
1533
1534 * port systemctl, busctl, … over to format-table.[ch]'s table formatters
1535
1536 * pid1: lock image configured with RootDirectory=/RootImage= using the usual nspawn semantics while the unit is up
1537
1538 * add --vacuum-xyz options to coredumpctl, matching those journalctl already has.
1539
1540 * add CopyFile= or so as unit file setting that may be used to copy files or
1541 directory trees from the host to the services RootImage= and RootDirectory=
1542 environment. Which we can use for /etc/machine-id and in particular
1543 /etc/resolv.conf. Should be smart and do something useful on read-only
1544 images, for example fall back to read-only bind mounting the file instead.
1545
1546 * bypass SIGTERM state in unit files if KillSignal is SIGKILL
1547
1548 * add proper dbus APIs for the various sd_notify() commands, such as MAINPID=1
1549 and so on, which would mean we could report errors and such.
1550
1551 * introduce DefaultSlice= or so in system.conf that allows changing where we
1552 place our units by default, i.e. change system.slice to something
1553 else. Similar, ManagerSlice= should exist so that PID1's own scope unit could
1554 be moved somewhere else too. Finally machined and logind should get similar
1555 options so that it is possible to move user session scopes and machines to a
1556 different slice too by default. Use case: people who want to put resources on
1557 the entire system, with the exception of one specific service. See:
1558 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-February/040369.html
1559
1560 * maybe rework get_user_creds() to query the user database if $SHELL is used
1561 for root, but only then.
1562
1563 * calenderspec: add support for week numbers and day numbers within a
1564 year. This would allow us to define "bi-weekly" triggers safely.
1565
1566 * sd-bus: add vtable flag, that may be used to request client creds implicitly
1567 and asynchronously before dispatching the operation
1568
1569 * sd-bus: parse addresses given in sd_bus_set_addresses immediately and not
1570 only when used. Add unit tests.
1571
1572 * make use of ethtool veth peer info in machined, for automatically finding out
1573 host-side interface pointing to the container.
1574
1575 * add some special mode to LogsDirectory=/StateDirectory=… that allows
1576 declaring these directories without necessarily pulling in deps for them, or
1577 creating them when starting up. That way, we could declare that
1578 systemd-journald writes to /var/log/journal, which could be useful when we
1579 doing disk usage calculations and so on.
1580
1581 * deprecate RootDirectoryStartOnly= in favour of a new ExecStart= prefix char
1582
1583 * support projid-based quota in machinectl for containers
1584
1585 * add a way to lock down cgroup migration: a boolean, which when set for a unit
1586 makes sure the processes in it can never migrate out of it
1587
1588 * blog about fd store and restartable services
1589
1590 * document Environment=SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL=debug drop-in in debugging document
1591
1592 * rework ExecOutput and ExecInput enums so that EXEC_OUTPUT_NULL loses its
1593 magic meaning and is no longer upgraded to something else if set explicitly.
1594
1595 * in the long run: permit a system with /etc/machine-id linked to /dev/null, to
1596 make it lose its identity, i.e. be anonymous. For this we'd have to patch
1597 through the whole tree to make all code deal with the case where no machine
1598 ID is available.
1599
1600 * optionally, collect cgroup resource data, and store it in per-unit RRD files,
1601 suitable for processing with rrdtool. Add bus API to access this data, and
1602 possibly implement a CPULoad property based on it.
1603
1604 * beef up pam_systemd to take unit file settings such as cgroups properties as
1605 parameters
1606
1607 * maybe hook up xfs/ext4 quotactl() with services? i.e. automatically manage
1608 the quota of the user indicated in User= via unit file settings, like the
1609 other resource management concepts. Would mix nicely with DynamicUser=1. Or
1610 alternatively, do this with projids, so that we can also cover services
1611 running as root. Quota should probably cover all the special dirs such as
1612 StateDirectory=, LogsDirectory=, CacheDirectory=, as well as RootDirectory= if it
1613 is set, plus the whole disk space any image configured with RootImage=.
1614
1615 * In DynamicUser= mode: before selecting a UID, use disk quota APIs on relevant
1616 disks to see if the UID is already in use.
1617
1618 * Add AddUser= setting to unit files, similar to DynamicUser=1 which however
1619 creates a static, persistent user rather than a dynamic, transient user. We
1620 can leverage code from sysusers.d for this.
1621
1622 * add some optional flag to ReadWritePaths= and friends, that has the effect
1623 that we create the dir in question when the service is started. Example:
1624
1625 ReadWritePaths=:/var/lib/foobar
1626
1627 * Add ExecMonitor= setting. May be used multiple times. Forks off a process in
1628 the service cgroup, which is supposed to monitor the service, and when it
1629 exits the service is considered failed by its monitor.
1630
1631 * track the per-service PAM process properly (i.e. as an additional control
1632 process), so that it may be queried on the bus and everything.
1633
1634 * add a new "debug" job mode, that is propagated to unit_start() and for
1635 services results in two things: we raise SIGSTOP right before invoking
1636 execve() and turn off watchdog support. Then, use that to implement
1637 "systemd-gdb" for attaching to the start-up of any system service in its
1638 natural habitat.
1639
1640 * gpt-auto logic: support encrypted swap, add kernel cmdline option to force
1641 it, and honour a gpt bit about it, plus maybe a configuration file
1642
1643 * add a percentage syntax for TimeoutStopSec=, e.g. TimeoutStopSec=150%, and
1644 then use that for the setting used in user@.service. It should be understood
1645 relative to the configured default value.
1646
1647 * enable LockMLOCK to take a percentage value relative to physical memory
1648
1649 * Permit masking specific netlink APIs with RestrictAddressFamily=
1650
1651 * define gpt header bits to select volatility mode
1652
1653 * ProtectClock= (drops CAP_SYS_TIMES, adds seecomp filters for settimeofday, adjtimex), sets DeviceAllow o /dev/rtc
1654
1655 * ProtectTracing= (drops CAP_SYS_PTRACE, blocks ptrace syscall, makes /sys/kernel/tracing go away)
1656
1657 * ProtectMount= (drop mount/umount/pivot_root from seccomp, disallow fuse via DeviceAllow, imply Mountflags=slave)
1658
1659 * ProtectKeyRing= to take keyring calls away
1660
1661 * RemoveKeyRing= to remove all keyring entries of the specified user
1662
1663 * ProtectReboot= that masks reboot() and kexec_load() syscalls, prohibits kill
1664 on PID 1 with the relevant signals, and makes relevant files in /sys and
1665 /proc (such as the sysrq stuff) unavailable
1666
1667 * Support ReadWritePaths/ReadOnlyPaths/InaccessiblePaths in systemd --user instances
1668 via the new unprivileged Landlock LSM (https://landlock.io)
1669
1670 * make sure the ratelimit object can deal with USEC_INFINITY as way to turn off things
1671
1672 * in nss-systemd, if we run inside of RootDirectory= with PrivateUsers= set,
1673 find a way to map the User=/Group= of the service to the right name. This way
1674 a user/group for a service only has to exist on the host for the right
1675 mapping to work.
1676
1677 * add bus API for creating unit files in /etc, reusing the code for transient units
1678
1679 * add bus API to remove unit files from /etc
1680
1681 * add bus API to retrieve current unit file contents (i.e. implement "systemctl cat" on the bus only)
1682
1683 * rework fopen_temporary() to make use of open_tmpfile_linkable() (problem: the
1684 kernel doesn't support linkat() that replaces existing files, currently)
1685
1686 * transient units: don't bother with actually setting unit properties, we
1687 reload the unit file anyway
1688
1689 * optionally, also require WATCHDOG=1 notifications during service start-up and shutdown
1690
1691 * cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
1692
1693 * PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
1694 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
1695
1696 * add an explicit parser for LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
1697 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
1698 specifications.
1699
1700 * when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
1701
1702 * PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
1703
1704 * there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
1705 as we have for debugfs. for example, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
1706 prefixed with /sys generally special.
1707 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
1708
1709 * fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
1710
1711 * docs: bring https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
1712
1713 * add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
1714 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
1715 state.
1716 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
1717
1718 * The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
1719 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
1720 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
1721 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
1722 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
1723
1724 * hostnamectl: show root image uuid
1725
1726 * Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
1727 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
1728
1729 * synchronize console access with BSD locks:
1730 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
1731
1732 * as soon as we have sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
1733 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
1734
1735 * figure out when we can use the coarse timers
1736
1737 * maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
1738 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
1739
1740 * what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
1741
1742 * exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
1743
1744 * timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
1745
1746 * add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
1747 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
1748
1749 * drop nss-myhostname in favour of nss-resolve?
1750
1751 * resolved:
1752 - mDNS/DNS-SD
1753 - service registration
1754 - service/domain/types browsing
1755 - avahi compat
1756 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
1757 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
1758 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
1759 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
1760 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
1761 - hook up resolved with machined-based address resolution
1762
1763 * refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
1764
1765 * add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
1766
1767 * generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
1768
1769 * a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
1770
1771 * figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
1772
1773 * For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
1774 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
1775
1776 * add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
1777
1778 * gpt-auto-generator:
1779 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
1780 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
1781
1782 * add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
1783 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
1784 when it is otherwise off
1785
1786 * MessageQueueMessageSize= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
1787
1788 * implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
1789 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
1790 for ReusePort=
1791
1792 * cgroups:
1793 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
1794 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
1795 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
1796 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
1797 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
1798 the hierarchies of child processes
1799 - add settings for cgroup.max.descendants and cgroup.max.depth,
1800 maybe use them for user@.service
1801
1802 * transient units:
1803 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
1804
1805 * when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
1806
1807 * libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
1808
1809 * be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
1810
1811 * 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
1812
1813 * If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
1814 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
1815 path anyway.
1816
1817 * refuse boot if /usr/lib/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
1818
1819 * man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
1820
1821 * load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
1822
1823 * There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
1824
1825 * add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
1826
1827 * make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
1828
1829 * verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
1830 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
1831 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
1832
1833 * Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
1834 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
1835
1836 * and a dbus call to generate target from current state
1837
1838 * investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
1839
1840 * dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
1841
1842 * be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
1843 needs to be auto-respawned?
1844
1845 * pid1:
1846 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
1847 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
1848 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
1849 that are not supported...
1850 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
1851 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Use case:
1852 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
1853 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
1854 - move PAM code into its own binary
1855 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
1856 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
1857 - Support --test based on current system state
1858 - 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().
1859 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
1860 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
1861 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
1862 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
1863 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
1864 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
1865 but much rather a disconnect on success.
1866 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
1867 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
1868 - maybe introduce CoreScheduling=yes/no to optionally set a PR_SCHED_CORE cookie, so that all
1869 processes in a service's cgroup share the same cookie and are guaranteed not to share SMT cores
1870 with other units https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.rst
1871
1872 * unit files:
1873 - allow port=0 in .socket units
1874 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
1875 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
1876 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
1877 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
1878 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
1879 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
1880 - introduce Type=pid-file
1881 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
1882 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
1883 - add verification of [Install] section to systemd-analyze verify
1884
1885 * timer units:
1886 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when DST changes
1887 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
1888
1889 * add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
1890
1891 * clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
1892
1893 * on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
1894
1895 * make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump
1896
1897 * currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1898
1899 * add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
1900
1901 * add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
1902
1903 * test/:
1904 - add unit tests for config_parse_device_allow()
1905
1906 * seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
1907 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
1908 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
1909 destination.
1910
1911 * when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
1912 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
1913
1914 * teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
1915
1916 * Add ConditionDirectoryNotEmpty= handle non-absoute paths as a search path or add
1917 ConditionConfigSearchPathNotEmpty= or different syntax? See the discussion starting at
1918 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/15109#issuecomment-607740136.
1919
1920 * BootLoaderSpec: Define a way how an installer can figure out whether a BLS
1921 compliant boot loader is installed.
1922
1923 * think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? use case:
1924 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
1925 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
1926 that automatically.
1927
1928 * systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
1929
1930 * remove any syslog support from log.c — we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
1931
1932 * shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
1933
1934 * merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
1935
1936 * add a dependency on standard-conf.xml and other included files to man pages
1937
1938 * MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
1939
1940 * properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
1941
1942 * initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
1943
1944 * sd-bus:
1945 - EBADSLT handling
1946 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
1947 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1948 - 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
1949 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
1950 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
1951 - longer term: priority inheritance
1952 - dbus spec updates:
1953 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
1954 - path escaping
1955 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
1956
1957 * sd-event
1958 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
1959 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
1960 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
1961 - maybe support iouring as backend, so that we allow hooking read and write
1962 operations instead of IO ready events into event loops. See considerations
1963 here:
1964 http://blog.vmsplice.net/2020/07/rethinking-event-loop-integration-for.html
1965
1966 * dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
1967 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
1968
1969 * document org.freedesktop.MemoryAllocation1
1970
1971 * maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
1972
1973 * print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
1974
1975 * mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
1976
1977 * EFI:
1978 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
1979 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
1980 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
1981 * bootctl
1982 - recognize the case when not booted on EFI
1983
1984 * bootctl,sd-boot: actually honour the "architecture" key
1985
1986 * bootctl:
1987 - show whether UEFI audit mode is available
1988 - teach it to prepare an ESP wholesale, i.e. with mkfs.vfat invocation
1989 - teach it to copy in unified kernel images and maybe type #1 boot loader spec entries from host
1990
1991 * logind:
1992 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
1993 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
1994 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
1995 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
1996 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
1997 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
1998 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
1999 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
2000 needs setuid().
2001 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
2002 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
2003 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
2004 complete.
2005 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
2006 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
2007 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
2008 - expose "Locked" property on logind session objects
2009 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
2010 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
2011 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
2012 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
2013 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
2014 relogins
2015 - (optionally?) spawn seat-manager@$SEAT.service whenever a seat shows up that as CanGraphical set
2016 - expose details of boot entries on the bus. In particular, it should be possible
2017 to query the list of boot entry titles that bootctl / sd-boot would show.
2018 Currently we only expose their identifiers.
2019
2020 * move multiseat vid/pid matches from logind udev rule to hwdb
2021
2022 * logind: rework pam_logind to also do a bus call in case of invocation from
2023 user@.service, which returns the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR value, and make this
2024 behaviour selectable via pam module option.
2025
2026 * delay activation of logind until somebody logs in, or when /dev/tty0 pulls it
2027 in or lingering is on (so that containers don't bother with it until PAM is used). also exit-on-idle
2028
2029 * journal:
2030 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
2031 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
2032 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
2033 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
2034 - fall back to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
2035 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
2036 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
2037 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
2038 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
2039 message that works, but already after a short timeout
2040 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
2041 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
2042 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
2043 - journalctl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
2044 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
2045 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() in the header,
2046 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
2047 - 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.
2048 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
2049 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
2050 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
2051 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
2052 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
2053 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
2054 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
2055 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
2056 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
2057 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
2058 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
2059 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
2060 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
2061 to syslog when it works again.
2062 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
2063 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
2064 journals in.
2065 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
2066 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
2067 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
2068 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
2069 the most common operations.
2070 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
2071 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
2072 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
2073 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
2074 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
2075 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
2076 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
2077 operation.
2078 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
2079 written to as FAIL, but instead show that they are being written to.
2080 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
2081 binary logs data
2082 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
2083 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
2084 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
2085 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
2086 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
2087 - check if loop in decompress_blob_xz() is necessary
2088
2089 * journald: support RFC3164 fully for the incoming syslog transport, see
2090 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/19251#issuecomment-816601955
2091
2092 * Hook up journald's FSS logic with TPM2: seal the verification disk by
2093 time-based policy, so that the verification key can remain on host and ve
2094 validated via TPM.
2095
2096 * rework journalctl -M to be based on a machined method that generates a mount
2097 fd of the relevant journal dirs in the container with uidmapping applied to
2098 allow the host to read it, while making everything read-only.
2099
2100 * journald: add varlink service that allows subscribing to certain log events,
2101 for example matching by message ID, or log level returns a list of journal
2102 cursors as they happen.
2103
2104 * journald: also collect CLOCK_BOOTTIME timestamps per log entry. Then, derive
2105 "corrected" CLOCK_REALTIME information on display from that and the timestamp
2106 info of the newest entry of the specific boot (as identified by the boot
2107 ID). This way, if a system comes up without a valid clock but acquires a
2108 better clock later, we can "fix" older entry timestamps on display, by
2109 calculating backwards. We cannot use CLOCK_MONOTONIC for this, since it does
2110 not account for suspend phases. This would then also enable us to correct the
2111 kmsg timestamping we consume (where we erroneously assume the clock was in
2112 CLOCK_MONOTONIC, but it actually is CLOCK_BOOTTIME as per kernel).
2113
2114 * in journald, write out a recognizable log record whenever the system clock is
2115 changed ("stepped"), and in timesyncd whenever we acquire an NTP fix
2116 ("slewing"). Then, in journalctl for each boot time we come across, find
2117 these records, and use the structured info they include to display
2118 "corrected" wallclock time, as calculated from the monotonic timestamp in the
2119 log record, adjusted by the delta declared in the structured log record.
2120
2121 * in journald: whenever we start a new journal file because the boot ID
2122 changed, let's generate a recognizable log record containing info about old
2123 and new ID. Then, when displaying log stream in journalctl look for these
2124 records, to be able to order them.
2125
2126 * journald: generate recognizable log events whenever we shutdown journald
2127 cleanly, and when we migrate run → var. This way tools can verify that a
2128 previous boot terminated cleanly, because either of these two messages must
2129 be safely written to disk, then.
2130
2131 * hook up journald with TPMs? measure new journal records to the TPM in regular
2132 intervals, validate the journal against current TPM state with that. (taking
2133 inspiration from IMA log)
2134
2135 * sd-journal puts a limit on parallel journal files to view at once. journald
2136 should probably honour that same limit (JOURNAL_FILES_MAX) when vacuuming to
2137 ensure we never generate more files than we can actually view.
2138
2139 * maybe add a tool that displays most recent journal logs as QR code to scan
2140 off screen and run it automatically on boot failures, emergency logs and
2141 such. Use DRM APIs directly, see
2142 https://github.com/dvdhrm/docs/blob/master/drm-howto/modeset.c for an example
2143 for doing that.
2144
2145 * maybe implicitly attach monotonic+realtime timestamps to outgoing messages in
2146 log.c and sd-journal-send
2147
2148 * journalctl/timesyncd: whenever timesyncd acquires a synchronization from NTP,
2149 create a structured log entry that contains boot ID, monotonic clock and
2150 realtime clock (I mean, this requires no special work, as these three fields
2151 are implicit). Then in journalctl when attempting to display the realtime
2152 timestamp of a log entry, first search for the closest later log entry
2153 of this kinda that has a matching boot id, and convert the monotonic clock
2154 timestamp of the entry to the realtime clock using this info. This way we can
2155 retroactively correct the wallclock timestamps, in particular for systems
2156 without RTC, i.e. where initially wallclock timestamps carry rubbish, until
2157 an NTP sync is acquired.
2158
2159 * introduce per-unit (i.e. per-slice, per-service) journal log size limits.
2160
2161 * journald: do journal file writing out-of-process, with one writer process per
2162 client UID, so that synthetic hash table collisions can slow down a specific
2163 user's journal stream down but not the others.
2164
2165 * tweak journald context caching. In addition to caching per-process attributes
2166 keyed by PID, cache per-cgroup attributes (i.e. the various xattrs we read)
2167 keyed by cgroup path, and guarded by ctime changes. This should provide us
2168 with a nice speed-up on services that have many processes running in the same
2169 cgroup.
2170
2171 * maybe add call sd_journal_set_block_timeout() or so to set SO_SNDTIMEO for
2172 the sd-journal logging socket, and, if the timeout is set to 0, sets
2173 O_NONBLOCK on it. That way people can control if and when to block for
2174 logging.
2175
2176 * journalctl: make sure -f ends when the container indicated by -M terminates
2177
2178 * journald: sigbus API via a signal-handler safe function that people may call
2179 from the SIGBUS handler
2180
2181 * add a test if all entries in the catalog are properly formatted.
2182 (Adding dashes in a catalog entry currently results in the catalog entry
2183 being silently skipped. journalctl --update-catalog must warn about this,
2184 and we should also have a unit test to check that all our message are OK.)
2185
2186 * build short web pages out of each catalog entry, build them along with man
2187 pages, and include hyperlinks to them in the journal output
2188
2189 * homed:
2190 - when user tries to log into record signed by unrecognized key, automatically add key to our chain after polkit auth
2191 - rollback when resize fails mid-operation
2192 - GNOME's side for forget key on suspend (requires rework so that lock screen runs outside of uid)
2193 - update LUKS password on login if we find there's a password that unlocks the JSON record but not the LUKS device.
2194 - create on activate?
2195 - properties: icon url?, preferred session type?, administrator bool (which translates to 'wheel' membership)?, address?, telephone?, vcard?, samba stuff?, parental controls?
2196 - communicate clearly when usb stick is safe to remove. probably involves
2197 beefing up logind to make pam session close hook synchronous and wait until
2198 systemd --user is shut down.
2199 - logind: maybe keep a "busy fd" as long as there's a non-released session around or the user@.service
2200 - maybe make automatic, read-only, time-based reflink-copies of LUKS disk
2201 images (and btrfs snapshots of subvolumes) (think: time machine)
2202 - distinguish destroy / remove (i.e. currently we can unregister a user, unregister+remove their home directory, but not just remove their home directory)
2203 - in systemd's PAMName= logic: query passwords with ssh-askpassword, so that we can make "loginctl set-linger" mode work
2204 - fingerprint authentication, pattern authentication, …
2205 - make sure "classic" user records can also be managed by homed
2206 - make size of $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR configurable in user record
2207 - query password from kernel keyring first
2208 - update even if record is "absent"
2209 - move acct mgmt stuff from pam_systemd_home to pam_systemd?
2210 - when "homectl --pkcs11-token-uri=" is used, synthesize ssh-authorized-keys records for all keys we have private keys on the stick for
2211 - make slice for users configurable (requires logind rework)
2212 - logind: populate auto-login list bus property from PKCS#11 token
2213 - when determining state of a LUKS home directory, check DM suspended sysfs file
2214 - when homed is in use, maybe start the user session manager in a mount namespace with MS_SLAVE,
2215 so that mounts propagate down but not up - eg, user A setting up a backup volume
2216 doesn't mean user B sees it
2217 - use credentials logic/TPM2 logic to store homed signing key
2218 - permit multiple user record signing keys to be used locally, and pick
2219 the right one for signing records automatically depending on a pre-existing
2220 signature
2221 - add a way to "adopt" a home directory, i.e. strip foreign signatures
2222 and insert a local signature instead.
2223 - as an extension to the directory+subvolume backend: if located on
2224 especially marked fs, then sync down password into LUKS header of that fs,
2225 and always verify passwords against it too. Bootstrapping is a problem
2226 though: if no one is logged in (or no other user even exists yet), how do you
2227 unlock the volume in order to create the first user and add the first pw.
2228 - support new FS_IOC_ADD_ENCRYPTION_KEY ioctl for setting up fscrypt
2229 - maybe pre-create ~/.cache as subvol so that it can have separate quota
2230 easily?
2231 - add a switch to homectl (maybe called --first-boot) where it will check if
2232 any non-system users exist, and if not prompts interactively for basic user
2233 info, mimicking systemd-firstboot. Then, place this in a service that runs
2234 after systemd-homed, but before gdm and friends, as a simple, barebones
2235 fallback logic to get a regular user created on uninitialized systems.
2236 - store PKCS#11 + FIDO2 token info in LUKS2 header, compatible with
2237 systemd-cryptsetup, so that it can unlock homed volumes
2238 - maybe make all *.home files owned by `systemd-home` user or so, so that we
2239 can easily set overall quota for all users
2240 - on login, if we can't fallocate initially, but rebalance is on, then allow
2241 login in discard mode, then immediately rebalance, then turn off discard
2242 - extend user records with optional "bulk" data. Specifically, a user
2243 avatar/photo or so. This data should be stored along with the user record,
2244 but probably shouldn't be part of the record itself, since it might be
2245 large.
2246
2247 * add a new switch --auto-definitions=yes/no or so to systemd-repart. If
2248 specified, synthesize a definition automatically if we can: enlarge last
2249 partition on disk, but only if it is marked for growing and not read-only.
2250
2251 * systemd-repart: read LUKS encryption key from $CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
2252
2253 * systemd-repart: add a switch to factory reset the partition table without
2254 immediately applying the new configuration again. i.e. --factory-reset=leave
2255 or so. (this is useful to factory reset an image, then putting it into
2256 another machine, ensuring that luks key is generated on new machine, not old)
2257
2258 * systemd-repart: support setting up dm-integrity with HMAC
2259
2260 * systemd-repart: maybe remove half-initialized image on failure. It fails
2261 if the output file exists, so a repeated invocation will usually fail if
2262 something goes wrong on the way.
2263
2264 * systemd-repart: by default generate minimized partition tables (i.e. tables
2265 that only cover the space actually used, excluding any free space at the
2266 end), in order to maximize dd'ability. Requires libfdisk work, see
2267 https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/907
2268
2269 * systemd-repart: MBR partition table support. Care needs to be taken regarding
2270 Type=, so that partition definitions can sanely apply to both the GPT and the
2271 MBR case. Idea: accept syntax "Type=gpt:home mbr:0x83" for setting the types
2272 for the two partition types explicitly. And provide an internal mapping so
2273 that "Type=linux-generic" maps to the right types for both partition tables
2274 automatically.
2275
2276 * systemd-repart: allow sizing partitions as factor of available RAM, so that
2277 we can reasonably size swap partitions for hibernation.
2278
2279 * systemd-repart: allow boolean option that ensures that if existing partition
2280 doesn't exist within the configured size bounds the whole command fails. This
2281 is useful to implement ESP vs. XBOOTLDR schemes in installers: have one set
2282 of repart files for the case where ESP is large enough and one where it isn't
2283 and XBOOTLDR is added in instead. Then apply the former first, and if it
2284 fails to apply use the latter.
2285
2286 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to never reuse existing partition
2287 and always create anew even if matching partition already exists.
2288
2289 * systemd-repart: add per-partition option to fail if partition already exist,
2290 i.e. is not added new. Similar, add option to fail if partition does not exist yet.
2291
2292 * systemd-repart: allow disabling growing of specific partitions, or making
2293 them (think ESP: we don't ever want to grow it, since we cannot resize vfat)
2294 Also add option to disable operation via kernel command line.
2295
2296 * systemd-repart: make it a static checker during early boot for existence and
2297 absence of other partitions for trusted boot environments
2298
2299 * systemd-repart: add support for SD_GPT_FLAG_GROWFS also on real systems, i.e.
2300 generate some unit to actually enlarge the fs after growing the partition
2301 during boot.
2302
2303 * systemd-repart: do not print "Successfully resized …" when no change was done.
2304
2305 * document:
2306 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
2307 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
2308 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
2309 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
2310 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
2311 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
2312 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
2313 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
2314 - man: add more examples to man pages,
2315 - in particular an example how to do the equivalent of switching runlevels
2316 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
2317 - document root=gpt-auto properly
2318
2319 * systemctl:
2320 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
2321 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
2322 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
2323 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
2324 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
2325 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
2326 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
2327 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
2328 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
2329 - systemctl status output should include list of triggering units and their status
2330
2331 * introduce an option (or replacement) for "systemctl show" that outputs all
2332 properties as JSON, similar to busctl's new JSON output. In contrast to that
2333 it should skip the variant type string though.
2334
2335 * Add a "systemctl list-units --by-slice" mode or so, which rearranges the
2336 output of "systemctl list-units" slightly by showing the tree structure of
2337 the slices, and the units attached to them.
2338
2339 * add "systemctl wait" or so, which does what "systemd-run --wait" does, but
2340 for all units. It should be both a way to pin units into memory as well as a
2341 wait to retrieve their exit data.
2342
2343 * show whether a service has out-of-date configuration in "systemctl status" by
2344 using mtime data of ConfigurationDirectory=.
2345
2346 * "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
2347 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
2348 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
2349 do, for example)
2350
2351 * add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
2352 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
2353 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
2354 returning from the "systemctl stop".
2355
2356 * systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
2357
2358 * Add a new verb "systemctl top"
2359
2360 * unit install:
2361 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
2362 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
2363
2364 * nspawn:
2365 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
2366 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
2367 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
2368 from the kernel's logs.
2369 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
2370 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
2371 interface be missing
2372 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
2373 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
2374 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
2375 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
2376 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
2377 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
2378 PID 1...
2379 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
2380 running, remove them when shut down.
2381 - add support for sysext extensions, too. i.e. a new --extension= switch that
2382 takes one or more arguments, and applies the extensions already during
2383 startup.
2384 - when main nspawn supervisor process gets suspended due to SIGSTOP/SIGTTOU
2385 or so, freeze the payload too.
2386 - support time namespaces
2387 - on cgroupsv1 issue cgroup empty handler process based on host events, so
2388 that we make cgroup agent logic safe
2389 - add API to invoke binary in container, then use that as fallback in
2390 "machinectl shell"
2391 - make nspawn suitable for shell pipelines: instead of triggering a hangup
2392 when input is finished, send ^D, which synthesizes an EOF. Then wait for
2393 hangup or ^D before passing on the EOF.
2394 - greater control over selinux label?
2395 - support that /proc, /sys/, /dev are pre-mounted
2396 - maybe allow TPM passthrough, backed by swtpm, and measure --image= hash
2397 into its PCR 11, so that nspawn instances can be TPM enabled, and partake
2398 in measurements/remote attestation and such. swtpm would run outside of
2399 control of container, and ideally would itself bind its encryption keys to
2400 host TPM.
2401 - make boot assessment do something sensible in a container. i.e send an
2402 sd_notify() from payload to container manager once boot-up is completed
2403 successfully, and use that in nspawn for dealing with boot counting,
2404 implemented in the partition table labels and directory names.
2405 - optionally set up nftables/iptables routes that forward UDP/TCP traffic on
2406 port 53 to resolved stub 127.0.0.54
2407 - maybe optionally insert .nspawn file as GPT partition into images, so that
2408 such container images are entirely stand-alone and can be updated as one.
2409 - The subreaper logic we currently have seems overly complex. We should
2410 investigate whether creating the inner child with CLONE_PARENT isn't better.
2411 - Reduce the number of sockets that are currently in use and just rely on one
2412 or two sockets.
2413 - Support running nspawn as an unprivileged user.
2414
2415 * machined: add API to acquire UID range. add API to mount/dissect loopback
2416 file. Both protected by PK. Then make nspawn use these APIs to run
2417 unprivileged containers. i.e. push the truly privileged bits into machined,
2418 so that the client side can remain entirely unprivileged, with SUID or
2419 anything like that.
2420
2421 * machined:
2422 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
2423 removed or added to an existing machine
2424 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
2425 difference host, via ssh
2426 - introduce systemd-nspawn-ephemeral@.service, and hook it into
2427 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
2428 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
2429 question
2430 - "machinectl history"
2431 - "machinectl diff"
2432 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
2433 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
2434
2435 * udev:
2436 - move to LGPL
2437 - kill scsi_id
2438 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
2439 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
2440 - re-enable ProtectClock= once only cgroupsv2 is supported.
2441 See f562abe2963bad241d34e0b308e48cf114672c84.
2442
2443 * coredump:
2444 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
2445 - when truncating coredumps, also log the full size that the process had, and make a metadata field so we can report truncated coredumps
2446 - add examples for other distros in ELF_PACKAGE_METADATA
2447
2448 * support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
2449
2450 * tmpfiles:
2451 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
2452 - allow time-based cleanup in r and R too
2453 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
2454 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
2455 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
2456 calls follow symlinks.
2457 - add --test mode
2458 - teach tmpfiles.d q/Q logic something sensible in the context of XFS/ext4
2459 project quota
2460 - teach tmpfiles.d m/M to move / atomic move + symlink old -> new
2461 - add new line type for setting btrfs subvolume attributes (i.e. rw/ro)
2462 - tmpfiles: add new line type for setting fcaps
2463
2464 * udev-link-config:
2465 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
2466 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
2467 on Path= matching
2468
2469 * sd-rtnl:
2470 - add support for more attribute types
2471 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
2472
2473 * networkd:
2474 - add more keys to [Route] and [Address] sections
2475 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
2476 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
2477 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
2478 - work with non-Ethernet devices
2479 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
2480 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
2481 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
2482 - expose in the API the following bits:
2483 - option 15, domain name
2484 - option 12, hostname and/or option 81, fqdn
2485 - option 123, 144, geolocation
2486 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
2487 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
2488 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
2489 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
2490 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
2491 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
2492
2493 * in networkd, when matching device types, fix up DEVTYPE rubbish the kernel passes to us
2494
2495 * Figure out how to do unittests of networkd's state serialization
2496
2497 * dhcp:
2498 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
2499
2500 * dhcp6:
2501 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
2502 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
2503 - write more test cases
2504 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
2505 - implement support for temporary addresses (IA_TA)
2506 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
2507 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
2508 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
2509 or interface down
2510 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
2511 this behavior
2512 - RouteTable= ?
2513
2514 * shared/wall: Once more programs are taught to prefer sd-login over utmp,
2515 switch the default wall implementation to wall_logind
2516 (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/29051#issuecomment-1704917074)