570.86.16 libGLX_nvidia.so calls open('/') -> dup() -> close() & close() on every frame

Upstream issue: sdl: Broken on Nvidia + Linux with USE_ISOLATION=1 · Issue #178 · LekKit/RVVM · GitHub

The driver for a whatever reason opens /, then duplicates this fd and closes both. At least, the driver shouldn’t do that. (because, for example, it’s probably a performance bottleneck)

It breaks applications that isolate themselves, for example if an application (like rvvm) isolates itself with a seccomp filter that returns -EPERM for useless system calls (like open/at), then those system calls will fail with this error. And if the nvidia driver can’t open /, it will silently crash.

^^^ This is about OpenGL.

Also, with vulkan, the driver tries to open /dev/nvidiactl (or/and /dev/nvidia0?) every frame. But unlike OpenGL, it does not crash if it fails to open.

(Vulkan) With seccomp:


Without seccomp:

nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (2.5 MB)

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