While all modern kernels (and I do mean _all_ of them -- this syscall
was added in 2.6.10 before git had begun development!) have support for
this syscall, LXC has a default seccomp profile that returns ENOSYS for
this syscall. For most syscalls this would be a deal-breaker, and our
use of session keyrings is security-based there are a few mitigating
factors that make this change not-completely-insane:
* We already have a flag that disables the use of session keyrings
(for older kernels that had system-wide keyring limits and so
on). So disabling it is not a new idea.
* While the primary justification of using session keys *is*
security-based, it's more of a security-by-obscurity protection.
The main defense keyrings have is VFS credentials -- which is
something that users already have better security tools for
(setuid(2) and user namespaces).
* Given the security justification you might argue that we
shouldn't silently ignore this. However, the only way for the
kernel to return -ENOSYS is either being ridiculously old (at
which point we wouldn't work anyway) or that there is a seccomp
profile in place blocking it.
Given that the seccomp profile (if malicious) could very easily
just return 0 or a silly return code (or something even more
clever with seccomp-bpf) and trick us without this patch, there
isn't much of a significant change in how much seccomp can trick
us with or without this patch.
Given all of that over-analysis, I'm pretty convinced there isn't a
security problem in this very specific case and it will help out the
ChromeOS folks by allowing Docker to run inside their LXC container
setup. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
Ref: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=860565
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>
Use KeyctlJoinSessionKeyring, KeyctlString and KeyctlSetperm from
golang.org/x/sys/unix instead of manually reimplementing them.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Since syscall is outdated and broken for some architectures,
use x/sys/unix instead.
There are still some dependencies on the syscall package that will
remain in syscall for the forseeable future:
Errno
Signal
SysProcAttr
Additionally:
- os still uses syscall, so it needs to be kept for anything
returning *os.ProcessState, such as process.Wait.
Signed-off-by: Christy Perez <christy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This avoid the goimports tool from remove the libcontainer/keys import line due the package name is diferent from folder name
Signed-off-by: Guilherme Rezende <guilhermebr@gmail.com>
No substantial code change.
Note that some style errors reported by `golint` are not fixed due to possible compatibility issues.
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <suda.kyoto@gmail.com>
Create a new session key ring '_ses' for every container. This avoids sharing
the key structure with the process that created the container and the
container inherits from.
This patch fixes it init and exec.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
John Hwang
Dominik Süß
Aleksa Sarai
Tobias Klauser
Christy Perez
Guilherme Rezende
Akihiro Suda
Stefan Berger