[lxc-devel] Detecting if you are running in a container

[Michael Tokarev]

On 02.11.2011 03:51, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
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>> And having CAP_MKNOD in container may not be that bad either, while
>> cgroup device.permission is set correctly - some nodes may need to
>> be created still, even in an unprivileged containers.  Who filters
>> out CAP_MKNOD during container startup (I don't see it in the code,
>> which only removes CAP_SYS_BOOT, and even that due to current
>> limitation), and which evil things can be done if it is not filtered?
> 
> If you don't filter which device nodes you a process can read/write then
> that process can access any device on the system.  Steal the keyboard,
> the X display, access any filesystem, directly access memory.  Basically
> the process can escalate that permission to full control of the system
> without needing any kernel bugs to help it.

There's cap_mknod, and cgroup/devices.{allow,deny}.  Even with CAP_MKNOD,
container can not _use_ devices not allowed in the latter.  That's what
I'm talking about - there's more fine control exist than CAP_MKNOD.  And
my question was about this context - with proper cgroup-level device
control in place, what bad CAP_MKNOD have?

Thanks,

/mjt