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

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

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:20:58AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Namsun Ch'o" <namnamc@Safe-mail.net> writes:
> 
> >> If we intend seccomp to protect against flaws during QEMU setup, then having
> >> it earlier is neccessary. eg QEMU opening a corrupt qcow2 image which might
> >> exploit QEMU before the guest CPUs start.
> >
> >> If the latter is the case, then we could start with a relaxed seccomp
> >> sandbox which included the setuid/chroot features, and then switch to a
> >> more restricted one which blocked them before main_loop() runs.
> >
> > That's not possible. Seccomp will not be enforced until seccomp_load(ctx) is
> > called, after which no new changes to the filter can be made.
> 
> That's a pity.
> 
> As long as it's the case, we need to pick: either we protect against
> rogue guests, or against rogue images.  The original idea was the
> former, and it still makes the most sense to me.

Yep, protecting against rogue guests seems much more important.

Regards,
Daniel
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