[libvirt] libvirt? qemu change that mmaps ELF files breaks libvirt svirt handling for os.kernel

Christian Borntraeger borntraeger at de.ibm.com
Fri Oct 4 12:18:49 UTC 2019



On 04.10.19 14:13, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/10/19 14:03, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> Stefano, Paolo,
>>
>> I have an interesting fail in QEMU 
>>
>> 2019-10-04T12:00:32.675188Z qemu-system-s390x: GLib: g_mapped_file_unref: assertion 'file != NULL' failed
>> that bisected to 
>> commit 816b9fe450220e19acb91a0ce4a8ade7000648d1 (refs/bisect/bad)
>>     elf-ops.h: Map into memory the ELF to load
>>
>> strace tells that I can read the ELF file, but not mmap
>> strace:
>> 214365 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/libvirt/images/test_cpu_timer.elf", O_RDONLY) = 36
>> 214365 read(46, "\177ELF\2\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 16
>> 214365 lseek(46, 0, SEEK_SET)           = 0
>> [...]
>> 214365 fstat(46, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=168176, ...}) = 0
>> 214365 mmap(NULL, 168176, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 46, 0) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
>>
>> So reading from /var/lib/libvirt/images/test_cpu_timer.elf does work, mmaping does not.
>> setenforce 0 makes the problem go away. 
>>
>> This might be more of an issue in libvirt, setting the svirt context too
>> restrictive, but I am not too deep into the svirt part of libvirt.
>> Reverting the qemu commit makes the problem go away.
> 
> Yes, the policy is too restrictive in my opinion.
> 
> Can you include the output of "audit2allow" and/or "audit2allow -R"?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo
> 

require {
	type unconfined_t;
	type virt_content_t;
	type svirt_t;
	type systemd_tmpfiles_t;
	type user_home_t;
	type NetworkManager_t;
	class file { entrypoint execute ioctl lock map open read write };
	class bpf prog_run;
}

#============= svirt_t ==============
allow svirt_t user_home_t:file { entrypoint execute ioctl lock open read write };

#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'domain_can_mmap_files'
allow svirt_t virt_content_t:file map;
corecmd_bin_entry_type(svirt_t)
userdom_manage_user_home_content_dirs(svirt_t)
userdom_map_user_home_files(svirt_t)
virt_rw_svirt_image(svirt_t)

#============= systemd_tmpfiles_t ==============
kernel_read_usermodehelper_state(systemd_tmpfiles_t)

#============= unconfined_t ==============
allow unconfined_t NetworkManager_t:bpf prog_run;




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