Re: [PATCH 2/2] Notify container-init parent a 'reboot' occured

Serge Hallyn
2011-08-11T21:50:19Z

Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano@free.fr):
> On 08/11/2011 11:09 PM, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Daniel Lezcano (daniel.lezcano@free.fr):
> >> When the reboot syscall is called and the pid namespace where the calling
> >> process belongs to is not from the init pidns, we send a SIGCHLD with CLD_REBOOTED
> >> to the parent of this pid namespace.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
> > ...
> >
> >> +void do_notify_parent_cldreboot(struct task_struct *tsk, int why, char *buffer)
> >> +{
> >> + struct siginfo info = { };
> >> + struct task_struct *parent;
> >> + struct sighand_struct *sighand;
> >> + unsigned long flags;
> >> +
> >> + if (tsk->ptrace)
> >> + parent = tsk->parent;
> >> + else {
> >> + tsk = tsk->group_leader;
> >> + parent = tsk->real_parent;
> >> + }
> >> +
> >> + info.si_signo = SIGCHLD;
> >> + info.si_errno = 0;
> >> + info.si_status = why;
> >> +
> >> + rcu_read_lock();
> >> + info.si_pid = task_pid_nr_ns(tsk, parent->nsproxy->pid_ns);
> >> + info.si_uid = __task_cred(tsk)->uid;
> >
> > This eventually should become:
> >
> > info.si_uid = user_ns_map_uid(task_cred_xxx(t, user_ns),
> > current_cred(), current_uid());
> >
> > I've got a first-stab patch at converting the rest of
> > kernel/signal.c in http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge/userns-2.6.git
>
> Ok, thanks.
>
> >> + rcu_read_unlock();
> >> +
> >> + info.si_utime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->utime);
> >> + info.si_stime = cputime_to_clock_t(tsk->stime);
> >> +
> >> + info.si_code = CLD_REBOOTED;
> >> +
> >> + sighand = parent->sighand;
> >> + spin_lock_irqsave(&sighand->siglock, flags);
> >> + if (sighand->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN &&
> >> + sighand->action[SIGCHLD-1].sa.sa_flags & SA_CLDREBOOT)
> >> + __group_send_sig_info(SIGCHLD, &info, parent);
> >> + /*
> >> + * Even if SIGCHLD is not generated, we must wake up wait4 calls.
> >> + */
> >> + __wake_up_parent(tsk, parent);
> >> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, flags);
> >> +}
> > ...
> >
> >> @@ -426,10 +434,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
> >> {
> >> char buffer[256];
> >> int ret = 0;
> >> + struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = current->nsproxy->pid_ns;
> >> +
> >> + /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
> >> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT)) {
> > Doesn't this mean that an unprivileged task in a container can shut
> > down the container?
>
> Ha ha ! Right, good catch :)
>
> Yes, rethinking about it, we can do what initially proposed Bruno by
> just preventing to reboot when we are not in the init_pid_ns. Actually,
> the sys_reboot occurs after the services shutdown and "kill -1 SIGTERM"
> and "kill -1 SIGKILL", and would not make sense to do that in a child
> pid namespace, except if we are in a container where we don't want to
> reboot :)
>
> So IMO, it is safe to do:
>
> if (!ns_capable(current_pid_ns()->user_ns, CAP_SYS_BOOT))
> return -EPERM;

That sounds good. Until the pid_ns->user_ns patch goes in, just
capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT) works too.

Actually, if this is the only thing CAP_SYS_BOOT grants you, and
if it is always fully namespaced, then I'm not sure there'll ever
be a reason to switch this to ns_capable().

thanks,
-serge

> if (pid_ns != &init_pid_ns)
> return pid_namespace_reboot(pid_ns, cmd, buffer);
>
>
> > The pidns->user_ns patch I sent earlier today gives you what you need
> > so that you can add
> >
> > if (!ns_capable(current_pid_ns()->user_ns, CAP_SYS_BOOT)
> > return -EPERM;
> >
> > right here to prevent that.
> >
> >> + /* If we are not in the initial pid namespace, we send a signal
> >> + * to the parent of this init pid namespace, notifying a shutdown
> >> + * occured */
> >> + if (pid_ns != &init_pid_ns)
> >> + pid_namespace_reboot(pid_ns, cmd, buffer);
> >>
> >> - /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
> >> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT))
> >> return -EPERM;
> >> + }
> >>
> >> /* For safety, we require "magic" arguments. */
> >> if (magic1 != LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 ||
> >> --
> >> 1.7.4.1
> >>
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