[Virtio-fs] [PATCH 2/2] virtiofsd: drop all capabilities in the wait parent process
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
philmd at redhat.com
Thu Apr 16 17:50:53 UTC 2020
On 4/16/20 6:49 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> All this process does is wait for its child. No capabilities are
> needed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at redhat.com>
> ---
> tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> index af97ba1c41..0c3f33b074 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> @@ -2530,6 +2530,17 @@ static void print_capabilities(void)
> printf("}\n");
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Drop all Linux capabilities because the wait parent process only needs to
> + * sit in waitpid(2) and terminate.
> + */
> +static void setup_wait_parent_capabilities(void)
> +{
> + capng_setpid(syscall(SYS_gettid));
Maybe worth a /* Drop all capabilities */ comment here.
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd at redhat.com>
> + capng_clear(CAPNG_SELECT_BOTH);
> + capng_apply(CAPNG_SELECT_BOTH);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Move to a new mount, net, and pid namespaces to isolate this process.
> */
> @@ -2561,6 +2572,8 @@ static void setup_namespaces(struct lo_data *lo, struct fuse_session *se)
> pid_t waited;
> int wstatus;
>
> + setup_wait_parent_capabilities();
> +
> /* The parent waits for the child */
> do {
> waited = waitpid(child, &wstatus, 0);
>
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