Re: [PATCH] Add pidfs filesystem

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Mon Feb 27 2017 - 13:58:30 EST


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Hi Alexey

This is a change to the kernel-user-space API. Please CC
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Thanks,

Michael


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Alexey Gladkov
<gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The pidfs filesystem contains a subset of the /proc file system which
> contains only information about the processes.
>
> Some of the container virtualization systems are mounted /proc inside
> the container. This is done in most cases to operate with information
> about the processes. Knowing that /proc filesystem is not fully
> virtualized they are mounted on top of dangerous places empty files or
> directories (for exmaple /proc/kcore, /sys/firmware, etc.).
>
> The structure of this filesystem is dynamic and any module can create a
> new object which will not necessarily be virtualized. There are
> proprietary modules that aren't in the mainline whose work we can not
> verify.
>
> This opens up a potential threat to the system. The developers of the
> virtualization system can't predict all dangerous places in /proc by
> definition.
>
> A more effective solution would be to mount into the container only what
> is necessary and ignore the rest.
>
> Right now there is the opportunity to pass in the container any port of
> the /proc filesystem using mount --bind expect the pids.
>
> This patch allows to mount only the part of /proc related to pids
> without rest objects. Since this is an addon to /proc, flags applied to
> /proc have an effect on this pidfs filesystem.
>
> Why not implement it as another flag to /proc ?
>
> The /proc flags is stored in the pid_namespace and are global for
> namespace. It means that if you add a flag to hide all except the pids,
> then it will act on all mounted instances of /proc.
>
> Originally the idea was that the container will be mounted only pidfs
> and additional required files will be mounted on top using the
> overlayfs. But I found out that /proc does not support overlayfs and
> does not allow to mount anything on top or under it.
>
> My question is whether it's possible to add overlayfs support for /proc?
>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/pidfs.txt | 16 ++++++++
> fs/proc/Kconfig | 8 ++++
> fs/proc/inode.c | 8 +++-
> fs/proc/internal.h | 2 +
> fs/proc/root.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> fs/proc/self.c | 6 +++
> fs/proc/thread_self.c | 6 +++
> include/linux/pid_namespace.h | 5 +++
> 8 files changed, 119 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/pidfs.txt
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/pidfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/pidfs.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ce958a5
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/pidfs.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
> +The PIDFS Filesystem
> +====================
> +
> +The pidfs filesystem contains a subset of the /proc file system which contains
> +only information about the processes. The link self points to the process
> +reading the file system. All other special files and directories in /proc are
> +not available in this filesystem.
> +
> +The pidfs is not an independent filesystem, its implementation shares code
> +with /proc.
> +
> +All mount options applicable to /proc filesystem are also applicable
> +to pidfs filesystem. For example, access to the information in /proc/[pid]
> +directories can be restricted using hidepid option.
> +
> +To get more information about the processes read the proc.txt
> diff --git a/fs/proc/Kconfig b/fs/proc/Kconfig
> index 1ade120..fa568f6 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/proc/Kconfig
> @@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ config PROC_VMCORE
> help
> Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
>
> +config PROC_PIDFS
> + bool "pidfs file system support"
> + depends on PROC_FS
> + default n
> + help
> + The pidfs filesystem contains a subset of the /proc file system
> + which contains only information only about the processes.
> +
> config PROC_SYSCTL
> bool "Sysctl support (/proc/sys)" if EXPERT
> depends on PROC_FS
> diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
> index 783bc19..1be65b4 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> @@ -474,12 +474,16 @@ struct inode *proc_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
> int proc_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
> {
> struct pid_namespace *ns = get_pid_ns(s->s_fs_info);
> + struct proc_dir_entry *fs_root = &proc_root;
> struct inode *root_inode;
> int ret;
>
> if (!proc_parse_options(data, ns))
> return -EINVAL;
>
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS) && s->s_type == &pidfs_fs_type)
> + fs_root = &pidfs_root;
> +
> /* User space would break if executables or devices appear on proc */
> s->s_iflags |= SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE | SB_I_NOEXEC | SB_I_NODEV;
> s->s_flags |= MS_NODIRATIME | MS_NOSUID | MS_NOEXEC;
> @@ -496,8 +500,8 @@ int proc_fill_super(struct super_block *s, void *data, int silent)
> */
> s->s_stack_depth = FILESYSTEM_MAX_STACK_DEPTH;
>
> - pde_get(&proc_root);
> - root_inode = proc_get_inode(s, &proc_root);
> + pde_get(fs_root);
> + root_inode = proc_get_inode(s, fs_root);
> if (!root_inode) {
> pr_err("proc_fill_super: get root inode failed\n");
> return -ENOMEM;
> diff --git a/fs/proc/internal.h b/fs/proc/internal.h
> index 2de5194..a7c068c 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/internal.h
> +++ b/fs/proc/internal.h
> @@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ static inline void proc_tty_init(void) {}
> /*
> * root.c
> */
> +extern struct file_system_type pidfs_fs_type;
> +extern struct proc_dir_entry pidfs_root;
> extern struct proc_dir_entry proc_root;
> extern int proc_parse_options(char *options, struct pid_namespace *pid);
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
> index 4bd0373..de16ac1 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/root.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/root.c
> @@ -102,10 +102,21 @@ static void proc_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
> struct pid_namespace *ns;
>
> ns = (struct pid_namespace *)sb->s_fs_info;
> - if (ns->proc_self)
> - dput(ns->proc_self);
> - if (ns->proc_thread_self)
> - dput(ns->proc_thread_self);
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS) && sb->s_type == &pidfs_fs_type) {
> + if (ns->pidfs_self)
> + dput(ns->pidfs_self);
> +
> + if (ns->pidfs_thread_self)
> + dput(ns->pidfs_thread_self);
> + } else {
> + if (ns->proc_self)
> + dput(ns->proc_self);
> +
> + if (ns->proc_thread_self)
> + dput(ns->proc_thread_self);
> + }
> +
> kill_anon_super(sb);
> put_pid_ns(ns);
> }
> @@ -117,6 +128,13 @@ static struct file_system_type proc_fs_type = {
> .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
> };
>
> +struct file_system_type pidfs_fs_type = {
> + .name = "pidfs",
> + .mount = proc_mount,
> + .kill_sb = proc_kill_sb,
> + .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
> +};
> +
> void __init proc_root_init(void)
> {
> int err;
> @@ -127,6 +145,10 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void)
> if (err)
> return;
>
> + err = register_filesystem(&pidfs_fs_type);
> + if (err)
> + return;
> +
> proc_self_init();
> proc_thread_self_init();
> proc_symlink("mounts", NULL, "self/mounts");
> @@ -148,8 +170,7 @@ void __init proc_root_init(void)
> proc_sys_init();
> }
>
> -static int proc_root_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat
> -)
> +static int proc_root_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat)
> {
> generic_fillattr(d_inode(dentry), stat);
> stat->nlink = proc_root.nlink + nr_processes();
> @@ -176,6 +197,14 @@ static int proc_root_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
> return proc_pid_readdir(file, ctx);
> }
>
> +static int pidfs_root_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
> +{
> + if (ctx->pos < FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY)
> + ctx->pos = FIRST_PROCESS_ENTRY;
> +
> + return proc_pid_readdir(file, ctx);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * The root /proc directory is special, as it has the
> * <pid> directories. Thus we don't use the generic
> @@ -187,6 +216,12 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_root_operations = {
> .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
> };
>
> +static const struct file_operations pidfs_root_operations = {
> + .read = generic_read_dir,
> + .iterate_shared = pidfs_root_readdir,
> + .llseek = generic_file_llseek,
> +};
> +
> /*
> * proc root can do almost nothing..
> */
> @@ -195,6 +230,11 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_root_inode_operations = {
> .getattr = proc_root_getattr,
> };
>
> +static const struct inode_operations pidfs_root_inode_operations = {
> + .lookup = proc_pid_lookup,
> + .getattr = proc_root_getattr,
> +};
> +
> /*
> * This is the root "inode" in the /proc tree..
> */
> @@ -211,6 +251,19 @@ struct proc_dir_entry proc_root = {
> .name = "/proc",
> };
>
> +struct proc_dir_entry pidfs_root = {
> + .low_ino = PROC_ROOT_INO,
> + .namelen = 6,
> + .mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO,
> + .nlink = 2,
> + .count = ATOMIC_INIT(1),
> + .proc_iops = &pidfs_root_inode_operations,
> + .proc_fops = &pidfs_root_operations,
> + .parent = &pidfs_root,
> + .subdir = RB_ROOT,
> + .name = "/pidfs",
> +};
> +
> int pid_ns_prepare_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> {
> struct vfsmount *mnt;
> @@ -220,10 +273,21 @@ int pid_ns_prepare_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> return PTR_ERR(mnt);
>
> ns->proc_mnt = mnt;
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS)) {
> + mnt = kern_mount_data(&pidfs_fs_type, ns);
> + if (IS_ERR(mnt))
> + return PTR_ERR(mnt);
> +
> + ns->pidfs_mnt = mnt;
> + }
> return 0;
> }
>
> void pid_ns_release_proc(struct pid_namespace *ns)
> {
> kern_unmount(ns->proc_mnt);
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS))
> + kern_unmount(ns->pidfs_mnt);
> }
> diff --git a/fs/proc/self.c b/fs/proc/self.c
> index 4024595..dea7e17 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/self.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/self.c
> @@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ int proc_setup_self(struct super_block *s)
> pr_err("proc_fill_super: can't allocate /proc/self\n");
> return PTR_ERR(self);
> }
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS) && s->s_type == &pidfs_fs_type) {
> + ns->pidfs_self = self;
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> ns->proc_self = self;
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/proc/thread_self.c b/fs/proc/thread_self.c
> index 595b90a97..274c618 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/thread_self.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/thread_self.c
> @@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ int proc_setup_thread_self(struct super_block *s)
> pr_err("proc_fill_super: can't allocate /proc/thread_self\n");
> return PTR_ERR(thread_self);
> }
> +
> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS) && s->s_type == &pidfs_fs_type) {
> + ns->pidfs_thread_self = thread_self;
> + return 0;
> + }
> +
> ns->proc_thread_self = thread_self;
> return 0;
> }
> diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> index 34cce96..fca3a76 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
> @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ struct pid_namespace {
> int hide_pid;
> int reboot; /* group exit code if this pidns was rebooted */
> struct ns_common ns;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_PIDFS
> + struct vfsmount *pidfs_mnt;
> + struct dentry *pidfs_self;
> + struct dentry *pidfs_thread_self;
> +#endif
> };
>
> extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;
> --
> 2.10.2
>
>
> --
> Rgrds, legion
>



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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface", http://blog.man7.org/