Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add syscalls for -runas and -chroot to the seccomp sandbox

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:06:32PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Namsun Ch'o" <namnamc@Safe-mail.net> writes:
> 
> > The seccomp sandbox doesn't whitelist setuid, setgid, or setgroups, which are
> > needed for -runas to work. It also doesn't whitelist chroot, which is needed
> > for the -chroot option. Unfortunately, QEMU enables seccomp before it drops
> > privileges or chroots, so without these whitelisted, -runas and -chroot cause
> > QEMU to be killed with -sandbox on. This patch adds those syscalls.
> 
> Should it enable seccomp a bit later?

Yeah, I think it would be better to move the seccomp enablement later.
Adding setuid and chroot to the allow list is pretty strongly undesirable
from a security protection POV.

Regards,
Daniel
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