Re: [PATCH] virtiofsd: Use clone() and not unshare(), support non-root

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Colin Walters (walters@verbum.org) wrote:
> I'd like to make use of virtiofs as part of our tooling in
> https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler
> Most of the code runs as non-root today; qemu also runs as non-root.
> We use 9p right now.
> 
> virtiofsd's builtin sandboxing effectively assumes it runs as
> root.
> 
> First, change the code to use `clone()` and not `unshare()+fork()`.
> 
> Next, automatically use `CLONE_NEWUSER` if we're running as non root.

Is it ever useful for root to run the code in a new user namespace?

Dave

> This is similar logic to that in https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
> (Which...BTW, it could make sense for virtiofs to depend on bubblewrap
>  and re-exec itself rather than re-implementing the containerization
>  itself)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
> ---
>  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> index 4c35c95b25..468617f6d6 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> @@ -2530,6 +2530,21 @@ static void print_capabilities(void)
>      printf("}\n");
>  }
>  
> +/* Copied from bubblewrap */
> +static int
> +raw_clone(unsigned long flags, void *child_stack)
> +{
> +#if defined(__s390__) || defined(__CRIS__)
> +  /*
> +   * On s390 and cris the order of the first and second arguments
> +   * of the raw clone() system call is reversed.
> +   */
> +    return (int) syscall(__NR_clone, child_stack, flags);
> +#else
> +    return (int) syscall(__NR_clone, flags, child_stack);
> +#endif
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * Move to a new mount, net, and pid namespaces to isolate this process.
>   */
> @@ -2547,14 +2562,15 @@ static void setup_namespaces(struct lo_data *lo, struct fuse_session *se)
>       * an empty network namespace to prevent TCP/IP and other network
>       * activity in case this process is compromised.
>       */
> -    if (unshare(CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWNET) != 0) {
> -        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "unshare(CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNS): %m\n");
> -        exit(1);
> +    int clone_flags = SIGCHLD | CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWNET;
> +    /* If we're non root, we need a new user namespace */
> +    if (getuid() != 0) {
> +        clone_flags |= CLONE_NEWUSER;
>      }
>  
> -    child = fork();
> +    child = raw_clone(clone_flags, NULL);
>      if (child < 0) {
> -        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "fork() failed: %m\n");
> +        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "clone() failed: %m\n");
>          exit(1);
>      }
>      if (child > 0) {
> -- 
> 2.24.1
> 
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK