[libvirt] [RFC][PATCH] lxc: drop CAP_SYS_BOOT capability to prevent rebooting from inside containers

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 09:04:35AM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Current lxc driver unexpectedly allows users inside containers to reboot
> host physical machine. This patch prevents this by dropping CAP_SYS_BOOT
> capability in the bounding set of the init processes in every containers.
> 
> Note that the patch intends to make it easy to add further capabilities
> to drop if needed, although I'm not sure which capabilities should be
> dropped. (We might need to drop CAP_SETFCAP as well to be strict...)
> 
> Thanks,
>   ozaki-r
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota at gmail.com>
> 
> >From 0e7a7622bc6411bbe76c05c63c6e6e61d379d97b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki.ryota at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 04:29:24 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] lxc: drop CAP_SYS_BOOT capability to prevent
> rebooting from inside containers
> 
> Current lxc driver unexpectedly allows users inside containers to reboot
> host physical machine. This patch prevents this by dropping CAP_SYS_BOOT
> capability in the bounding set of the init processes in every containers.
> ---
>  src/lxc_container.c |   30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc_container.c
> index 3946b84..37ab216 100644
> --- a/src/lxc_container.c
> +++ b/src/lxc_container.c
> @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
>  #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>  #include <sys/mount.h>
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
> +#include <sys/prctl.h>
> +#include <sys/capability.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  #include <mntent.h>

  I had to move those 2 includes after #include <linux/fs.h>
otherwise MS_MOVE which is defined in the later would not be found
anymore. Weird but true !

> @@ -639,6 +641,30 @@ static int lxcContainerSetupMounts(virDomainDefPtr vmDef,
>          return lxcContainerSetupExtraMounts(vmDef);
>  }
> 
> +
> +static int lxcContainerDropCapabilities( virDomainDefPtr vmDef )
> +{
> +    int i;
> +    const struct {
> +        int id;
> +        const char *name;
> +    } caps[] = {
> +#define ID_STRING(name) name, #name
> +        { ID_STRING(CAP_SYS_BOOT) },
> +    };
> +
> +    for (i = 0 ; i < ARRAY_CARDINALITY(caps) ; i++) {
> +        if (prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, caps[i].id, 0, 0, 0)) {
> +            lxcError(NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
> +                     "%s", _("failed to drop %s"), caps[i].name);

   Here the compiler complained about the args it really should be 

               lxcError(NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
                        _("failed to drop %s"), caps[i].name);

> +            return -1;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +

  That said with the two fixes this looks like a good patch,
so applied and commited, thanks !

Daniel

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