[libvirt] [Patch v2 3/3] apparmor: QEMU bridge helper policy updates

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:22 -0400, rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> Quoting Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com>:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:05 -0400, rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> >> Quoting Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com>:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 14:08 -0400, rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
> >> >> From: Richa Marwaha <rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> This patch provides AppArmor policy updates for the QEMU bridge helper.
> >> >> The QEMU bridge helper is a SUID executable exec'd by QEMU that drops
> >> >> capabilities to CAP_NET_ADMIN and adds a tap device to a network bridge.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Richa Marwaha <rmarwah at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant<coreyb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >> >> ---
> >> >>  examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu |   21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> >> >>  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >> >>
> >> >> diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu  
> >> b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> >> index 10cdd36..766a334 100644
> >> >> --- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> >> +++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
> >> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >> >> -# Last Modified: Mon Apr  5 15:11:27 2010
> >> >> +# Last Modified: Fri Mar 9 14:43:22 2012
> >> >>
> >> >>    #include <abstractions/base>
> >> >>    #include <abstractions/consoles>
> >> >> @@ -108,3 +108,22 @@
> >> >>    /bin/dash rmix,
> >> >>    /bin/dd rmix,
> >> >>    /bin/cat rmix,
> >> >> +
> >> >> +  /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper Cx,
> >> >> +  # child profile for bridge helper process
> >> >> +  profile /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper {
> >> >> +   #include <abstractions/base>
> >> >> +
> >> >> +   capability setuid,
> >> >> +   capability setgid,
> >> >> +   capability setpcap,
> >> >> +   capability net_admin,
> >> >> +
> >> >> +   network inet stream,
> >> >> +
> >> >> +   /dev/net/tun rw,
> >> >> +   /etc/qemu/** r,
> >> >> +   owner @{PROC}/*/status r,
> >> >> +
> >> >> +   /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper rmix,
> >> >> +  }
> >> >
> >> > Looking at the child profile itself, this seems fine.
> >> >
> >> > However, the Cx transition makes it so that all libvirt-managed qemu
> >> > processes are allowed to execute this setuid helper and I wonder if that
> >> > is too much? Ie, a guest running under libvirt's NAT wouldn't need
> >> > access to this helper at all. I wonder if it would be better to adjust
> >> > virt-aa-helper to add this transition and child profile instead (the
> >> > child profile could theoretically still be in apparmor/libvirt-qemu, but
> >> > this is a bit messy)? Can we determine from the domain XML the
> >> > circumstances when /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper will be used? If so,
> >> > virt-aa-helper could add the access only then. As a side-benefit,
> >> > handling this in virt-aa-helper allows us at compile-time to adjust the
> >> > path to qemu-bridge-helper to use the configured path to the binary (ie,
> >> > some distros may not use /usr/libexec).
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot reviewing the apparmor patch. We cannot detemine from the
> >> domain XML whether /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper will be used or not
> >> because we cannot determine whether we are running as privileged user
> >> or not.
> > Hmmm, that's too bad.
> >
> >>  Is there a way we can specify the configured path to the
> >> binary in the current policy we have?
> >
> > Not in a convenient way, no. The policy is intended as example policy
> > anyway, and distributions are expected to modify this, so I don't think
> > this alone is a blocker.
> 
> Right now the only way we can think of is that whenever in domain XML  
> we see interface=bridge
> we set the policy for the qemu-bridge-helper even though we don't know  
> if the qemu-bridge-helper
> is going to be used or not.

Ah, well, that would at least be somewhat better and IMHO, worthwhile.


-- 
Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com
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