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IRC log for #minetest-dev, 2023-01-22

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07:42 MTDiscord <jordan4ibanez> We have now overtaken platinum arts sandbox graphically. Or, at least what I remember it being. Woooo
07:44 MTDiscord <jordan4ibanez> Wait a second, stop the presses. Platinum arts sandbox is now based off Minetest :O :O :O
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14:19 MTDiscord <MisterE> no, thats a new project he is working on called "D's Sandbox", and it is based off of a glitched version of minetest 0.4.13
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15:39 sfan5 @x2048 you have a review
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17:52 Krock sfan5: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/13133#discussion_r1083473272  conditional and increment is incorrect
17:53 Krock also I wonder whether that would change anything because the compiler places the struct on stack anyway. if it's intelligent enough, it might even do this automatically
17:54 Krock s/the struct/the iterated variables xyz/
18:02 jwmhjwmh Is there a meeting here now?
18:02 Krock I don't think so. nothing's announced
18:02 Krock but if there's other devs online we could look at PRs and issues nonetheless
18:03 jwmhjwmh One seems to be scheduled for today: https://dev.minetest.net/Meetings#2023-01-22
18:04 Krock nothing on github though. it seems that I simply copied it over after saving the last meeting. I don't know who's available now
18:08 jwmhjwmh Perhaps core devs who are here can look at the "SSCSM execution" section at that meeting link I posted. I'd like some assistance with the PR.
18:12 Krock why exactly are separate processes needed?
18:13 jwmhjwmh Process sandboxing.
18:14 jwmhjwmh E.g. seccomp.
18:15 Krock is blacklisting API functions not secure enough? just wondering
18:16 Desour iirc, we wanted to do the process sandboxing for the case that the lua sandbox somehow failed
18:17 Desour btw. jwmhjwmh did you implement other sandboxing things than seccomp yet?
18:18 jwmhjwmh The sandbox is implemented on Mac OS. For Windows I tried using the Windows Integrity Mechanism, but I don't know if it works. It should restrict file writes.
18:18 jwmhjwmh SSCSM could be disabled on systems for which sandboxing is not enabled.
18:20 Krock and there's no way to apply that to specific threads? I'm asking because there's many wrapper functions and IPC-related processing that add 1) overhead and 2) maintenance costs
18:21 Desour afaik, seccomp works on threads. but it's quite useless if we don't have a separate memory space
18:21 Desour quite = completely
18:22 Desour (i.e. you could just do ROP on the main thread)
18:22 Desour on the main thread's stack*
18:23 Desour jwmhjwmh: did you think about also putting the process in different namespaces in linux?
18:23 Krock it would be somewhat fancy if we could convert individual events like CSM_C2S_RUN_HP_MODIFICATION into a function lookup + automatic value forwarding using va_args
18:24 jwmhjwmh Desour: I haven't looked into that. Seccomp seemed to do the job.
18:24 Krock i.e. to make all parameter handling dynamic since we already know the function signatures
18:32 Zughy[m] My bad for the meeting, pretty busy weeks, I can hardly label issues. Wsor asked to be a triager as well, a few weeks ago. Please let them, I can't handle everything on my own in these days
18:33 Zughy[m] I think the main thing was, feature freeze now: yes/no
18:35 jwmhjwmh Krock: That might be possible. We could have serialization functions for tuples, vectors, etc. I can look into that.
18:35 sfan5 <+jwmhjwmh> SSCSM could be disabled on systems for which sandboxing is not enabled.
18:36 sfan5 I think it's obvious but disabling one of our main features on windows is out of question
18:36 Krock jwmhjwmh: if you can find a way, that would have potential to reduce the wrapper functions part to a fraction of what it currently is
18:37 jwmhjwmh sfan5: Yes, hopefully blocking filesystem writes is adequate as the Windows sandbox. I don't think a full sandbox is available.
18:38 sfan5 how does chromium do it?
18:38 Krock firefox can do it as well. even without Intel Virtualization Technology or AMD whatever it is called
18:39 Krock unless I am mistaken about the virtualization aspect. it might also be a hardened API that checks for file permissions for every javascript call
18:45 rubenwardy RE: Android - I guess fork() is unavailable?
18:48 jwmhjwmh fork() is available, but it seems impossible to include an executable in the APK. Maybe it could be done with some hackery in the Makefile to make libMinetest.so executable.
18:49 sfan5 if you do fork you won't need an executable
18:51 sfan5 anyway maybe for android we can leave it unsandboxed since the OS already does a great job?
18:54 jwmhjwmh I guess the process could fork without exec, but that would probably waste a lot of memory since forked memory is CoW.
18:55 jwmhjwmh I think seccomp is available on Android, so we might as well sandbox.
18:57 jwmhjwmh I guess to avoid wasting memory the process could fork at the very beginning then the forked process could fork itself as needed.
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19:36 kilbith sfan5: here's an improved (I believe) MinGW build script that automatically MT alongside with irrlicht (or forks): https://gist.github.com/kilbith/2d218c27d0e1e4a1fea865a305d6cac2
19:36 kilbith * automatically build, oops
19:37 kilbith it's also a more "straightforward" build process than buildbot
19:38 kilbith so you don't have to build irrlicht on mingw separately, this script takes care of everything at once
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22:27 MTDiscord <x2048> sfan5: Thank you
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23:18 MTDiscord <x2048> Merging #13151, #13157, #13165
23:18 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13151 -- Clear exposure compensation textures on creation. by x2048
23:18 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13157 -- Implement --debugger option to improve UX when debugging crashes by sfan5
23:18 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/13165 -- Decrease minimum for repeat_place_time by Desour
23:20 MTDiscord <x2048> Done

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