[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v6 10/10] virtiofsd: Add an option to enable/disable security label

Dr. David Alan Gilbert dgilbert at redhat.com
Mon Feb 14 13:32:38 UTC 2022


* Vivek Goyal (vgoyal at redhat.com) wrote:
> Provide an option "-o security_label/no_security_label" to enable/disable
> security label functionality. By default these are turned off.
> 
> If enabled, server will indicate to client that it is capable of handling
> one security label during file creation. Typically this is expected to
> be a SELinux label. File server will set this label on the file. It will
> try to set it atomically wherever possible. But its not possible in
> all the cases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>

OK, but you have missed some of the docs typos I mentined in the last
review; they can be cleared up any time.

> ---
>  docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst         | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/virtiofsd/helper.c         |  1 +
>  tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst b/docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst
> index 07ac0be551..0c0560203c 100644
> --- a/docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst
> +++ b/docs/tools/virtiofsd.rst
> @@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ Options
>    * posix_acl|no_posix_acl -
>      Enable/disable posix acl support.  Posix ACLs are disabled by default.
>  
> +  * security_label|no_security_label -
> +    Enable/disable security label support. Security labels are disabled by
> +    default. This will allow client to send a MAC label of file during
> +    file creation. Typically this is expected to be SELinux security
> +    label. Server will try to set that label on newly created file
> +    atomically wherever possible.
> +
>  .. option:: --socket-path=PATH
>  
>    Listen on vhost-user UNIX domain socket at PATH.
> @@ -348,6 +355,31 @@ client arguments or lists returned from the host.  This stops
>  the client seeing any 'security.' attributes on the server and
>  stops it setting any.
>  
> +SELinux support
> +---------------
> +One can enable support for SELinux by running virtiofsd with option
> +"-o security_label". But this will try to save guest's security context
> +in xattr security.selinux on host and it might fail if host's SELinux
> +policy does not permit virtiofsd to do this operation.
> +
> +Hence, it is preferred to remap guest's "security.selinux" xattr to say
> +"trusted.virtiofs.security.selinux" on host.
> +
> +"-o xattrmap=:map:security.selinux:trusted.virtiofs.:"
> +
> +This will make sure that guest and host's SELinux xattrs on same file
> +remain separate and not interfere with each other. And will allow both
> +host and guest to implement their own separate SELinux policies.
> +
> +Setting trusted xattr on host requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN. So one will need
> +add this capability to daemon.
> +
> +"-o modcaps=+sys_admin"
> +
> +Giving CAP_SYS_ADMIN increases the risk on system. Now virtiofsd is more
> +powerful and if gets compromised, it can do lot of damage to host system.
> +So keep this trade-off in my mind while making a decision.
> +
>  Examples
>  --------
>  
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/helper.c b/tools/virtiofsd/helper.c
> index a8295d975a..e226fc590f 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/helper.c
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/helper.c
> @@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ void fuse_cmdline_help(void)
>             "                               default: no_allow_direct_io\n"
>             "    -o announce_submounts      Announce sub-mount points to the guest\n"
>             "    -o posix_acl/no_posix_acl  Enable/Disable posix_acl. (default: disabled)\n"
> +           "    -o security_label/no_security_label  Enable/Disable security label. (default: disabled)\n"
>             );
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> index d49128a58d..f3ec6aafe5 100644
> --- a/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> +++ b/tools/virtiofsd/passthrough_ll.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct lo_data {
>      int user_posix_acl, posix_acl;
>      /* Keeps track if /proc/<pid>/attr/fscreate should be used or not */
>      bool use_fscreate;
> +    int user_security_label;
>  };
>  
>  static const struct fuse_opt lo_opts[] = {
> @@ -215,6 +216,8 @@ static const struct fuse_opt lo_opts[] = {
>      { "no_killpriv_v2", offsetof(struct lo_data, user_killpriv_v2), 0 },
>      { "posix_acl", offsetof(struct lo_data, user_posix_acl), 1 },
>      { "no_posix_acl", offsetof(struct lo_data, user_posix_acl), 0 },
> +    { "security_label", offsetof(struct lo_data, user_security_label), 1 },
> +    { "no_security_label", offsetof(struct lo_data, user_security_label), 0 },
>      FUSE_OPT_END
>  };
>  static bool use_syslog = false;
> @@ -808,6 +811,17 @@ static void lo_init(void *userdata, struct fuse_conn_info *conn)
>          fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG, "lo_init: disabling posix_acl\n");
>          conn->want &= ~FUSE_CAP_POSIX_ACL;
>      }
> +
> +    if (lo->user_security_label == 1) {
> +        if (!(conn->capable & FUSE_CAP_SECURITY_CTX)) {
> +            fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_ERR, "lo_init: Can not enable security label."
> +                     " kernel does not support FUSE_SECURITY_CTX capability.\n");
> +        }
> +        conn->want |= FUSE_CAP_SECURITY_CTX;
> +    } else {
> +        fuse_log(FUSE_LOG_DEBUG, "lo_init: disabling security label\n");
> +        conn->want &= ~FUSE_CAP_SECURITY_CTX;
> +    }
>  }
>  
>  static void lo_getattr(fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t ino,
> @@ -4279,6 +4293,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>          .proc_self_task = -1,
>          .user_killpriv_v2 = -1,
>          .user_posix_acl = -1,
> +        .user_security_label = -1,
>      };
>      struct lo_map_elem *root_elem;
>      struct lo_map_elem *reserve_elem;
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert at redhat.com / Manchester, UK




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