[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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