mainlining shenanigans
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We've been making heavy use of the seccomp notifier to intercept and handle certain syscalls for containers. This patch allows a syscall supervisor listening on a given notifier to be notified when a seccomp filter has become unused. A container is often managed by a singleton supervisor process the so-called "monitor". This monitor process has an event loop which has various event handlers registered. If the user specified a seccomp profile that included a notifier for various syscalls then we also register a seccomp notify even handler. For any container using a separate pid namespace the lifecycle of the seccomp notifier is bound to the init process of the pid namespace, i.e. when the init process exits the filter must be unused. If a new process attaches to a container we force it to assume a seccomp profile. This can either be the same seccomp profile as the container was started with or a modified one. If the attaching process makes use of the seccomp notifier we will register a new seccomp notifier handler in the monitor's event loop. However, when the attaching process exits we can't simply delete the handler since other child processes could've been created (daemons spawned etc.) that have inherited the seccomp filter and so we need to keep the seccomp notifier fd alive in the event loop. But this is problematic since we don't get a notification when the seccomp filter has become unused and so we currently never remove the seccomp notifier fd from the event loop and just keep accumulating fds in the event loop. We've had this issue for a while but it has recently become more pressing as more and larger users make use of this. To fix this, we introduce a new "users" reference counter that tracks any tasks and dependent filters making use of a filter. When a notifier is registered waiting tasks will be notified that the filter is now empty by receiving a (E)POLLHUP event. The concept in this patch introduces is the same as for signal_struct, i.e. reference counting for life-cycle management is decoupled from reference counting taks using the object. There's probably some trickery possible but the second counter is just the correct way of doing this IMHO and has precedence. Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Matt Denton <mpdenton@google.com> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Robert Sesek <rsesek@google.com> Cc: Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com> Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200531115031.391515-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
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Linux kernel
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