[lxc-devel] [PATCH v4] Parse rootfs->path

Christian Brauner christianvanbrauner at gmail.com
Thu Oct 22 08:09:19 UTC 2015


On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 02:59:28AM +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Christian Brauner (christianvanbrauner at gmail.com):
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 09:21:48PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > The mount_entry_overlay_dirs() and mount_entry_aufs_dirs() functions create
> > > workdirs and upperdirs for overlay and aufs lxc.mount.entry entries. They try
> > > to make sure that the workdirs and upperdirs can only be created under the
> > > containerdir (e.g. /path/to/the/container/CONTAINERNAME). In order to do this
> > > the right hand side of
> > > 
> > >                 if ((strncmp(upperdir, lxcpath, dirlen) == 0) && (strncmp(upperdir, rootfs->path, rootfslen) != 0))
> > > 
> > > was thought to check if the rootfs->path is not present in the workdir and
> > > upperdir mount options. But the current check is bogus since it will be
> > > trivially true whenever the container is a block-dev or overlay or aufs backed
> > > since the rootfs->path will then have a form like e.g.
> > > 
> > >         overlayfs:/some/path:/some/other/path
> > > 
> > > This patch adds the function ovl_get_rootfs_dir() which parses rootfs->path by
> > > searching backwards for the first occurrence of the delimiter pair ":/". We do
> > > not simply search for ":" since it might be used in path names. If ":/" is not
> > > found we assume the container is directory backed and simply return
> > > strdup(rootfs->path).
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christianvanbrauner at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  src/lxc/conf.c | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > >  1 file changed, 76 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/src/lxc/conf.c b/src/lxc/conf.c
> > > index 16a62f8..fc072f7 100644
> > > --- a/src/lxc/conf.c
> > > +++ b/src/lxc/conf.c
> > > @@ -1815,12 +1815,51 @@ static void cull_mntent_opt(struct mntent *mntent)
> > >  	}
> > >  }
> > >  
> > > +static char *ovl_get_rootfs_dir(const char *rootfs_path, size_t *rootfslen)
> > > +{
> > > +	char *rootfsdir = NULL;
> > > +	char *s1 = NULL;
> > > +	char *s2 = NULL;
> > > +	char *s3 = NULL;
> > > +	size_t s3len = 0;
> > > +
> > > +	if (!rootfs_path || !rootfslen)
> > > +		return NULL;
> > > +
> > > +	s1 = strdup(rootfs_path);
> > > +	if (!s1)
> > > +		return NULL;
> > > +
> > > +	if ((s2 = strstr(s1, ":/"))) {
> > > +		s2 = s2 + 1;
> > > +		if ((s3 = strstr(s2, ":/"))) {
> > > +			s3len = strlen(s3);
> > > +			s2[strlen(s2) - s3len] = '\0';
> > > +		}
> > > +		rootfsdir = strdup(s2);
> > > +		if (!rootfsdir) {
> > > +			free(s1);
> > > +			return NULL;
> > > +		}
> > > +	}
> > > +
> > > +	if (!rootfsdir)
> > > +		rootfsdir = s1;
> > > +	else
> > > +		free(s1);
> > > +
> > > +	*rootfslen = strlen(rootfsdir);
> > > +
> > > +	return rootfsdir;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >  static int mount_entry_create_overlay_dirs(const struct mntent *mntent,
> > >  					   const struct lxc_rootfs *rootfs,
> > >  					   const char *lxc_name,
> > >  					   const char *lxc_path)
> > >  {
> > >  	char lxcpath[MAXPATHLEN];
> > > +	char *rootfsdir = NULL;
> > >  	char *upperdir = NULL;
> > >  	char *workdir = NULL;
> > >  	char **opts = NULL;
> > > @@ -1832,13 +1871,13 @@ static int mount_entry_create_overlay_dirs(const struct mntent *mntent,
> > >  	size_t rootfslen = 0;
> > >  
> > >  	if (!rootfs->path || !lxc_name || !lxc_path)
> > > -		return -1;
> > > +		goto err;
> > >  
> > >  	opts = lxc_string_split(mntent->mnt_opts, ',');
> > >  	if (opts)
> > >  		arrlen = lxc_array_len((void **)opts);
> > >  	else
> > > -		return -1;
> > > +		goto err;
> > >  
> > >  	for (i = 0; i < arrlen; i++) {
> > >  		if (strstr(opts[i], "upperdir=") && (strlen(opts[i]) > (len = strlen("upperdir="))))
> > > @@ -1848,31 +1887,37 @@ static int mount_entry_create_overlay_dirs(const struct mntent *mntent,
> > >  	}
> > >  
> > >  	ret = snprintf(lxcpath, MAXPATHLEN, "%s/%s", lxc_path, lxc_name);
> > > -	if (ret < 0 || ret >= MAXPATHLEN) {
> > > -		lxc_free_array((void **)opts, free);
> > > -		return -1;
> > > -	}
> > > +	if (ret < 0 || ret >= MAXPATHLEN)
> > > +		goto err;
> > > +
> > > +	rootfsdir = ovl_get_rootfs_dir(rootfs->path, &rootfslen);
> > > +	if (!rootfsdir)
> > > +		goto err;
> > >  
> > >  	dirlen = strlen(lxcpath);
> > > -	rootfslen = strlen(rootfs->path);
> > >  
> > >  	/* We neither allow users to create upperdirs and workdirs outside the
> > >  	 * containerdir nor inside the rootfs. The latter might be debatable. */
> > >  	if (upperdir)
> > > -		if ((strncmp(upperdir, lxcpath, dirlen) == 0) && (strncmp(upperdir, rootfs->path, rootfslen) != 0))
> > > +		if ((strncmp(upperdir, lxcpath, dirlen) == 0) && (strncmp(upperdir, rootfsdir, rootfslen) != 0))
> > >  			if (mkdir_p(upperdir, 0755) < 0) {
> > >  				WARN("Failed to create upperdir");
> > >  			}
> > 
> > We should also consider putting
> > 
> >         return -1;
> > 
> > here when the check fails. Consider a container named AA which has an
> > lxc.mount.entry for an overlay mount:
> > 
> >         lxc.mount.entry = /lowerdir dest overlay lowerdir=/lowerdir,upperdir=/path/to/BB/delta,workdir=/path/to/BB/workdir,create=dir
> > 
> > whose upperdir and workdir refer to another container BB. Both, upperdir and
> > workdir already exist under BB's containerdir. If we do not return -1 when the
> > check fails the mount will succeed and we will write changes to workdir/upperdir
> > of BB. That should not happen. Once you let me know that you're fine with the
> > reimplementation of ovl_get_rootfs_dir() I would like to change that too before
> > you ack it.
> 
> Sorry, I just don't know who uses this or how they use it.  The example you
> show could be problematic, but enforcing that the upperdir be in the container's
> lxcdir could annoy some people.
> 
> -serge

Hm, just to be clear, I didn't mean that we return error when no upperdir or
workdir is given, just when one is given but it fails the pre mkdir_p() check.
In code:

	if (upperdir)
		if ((strncmp(upperdir, lxcpath, dirlen) == 0) && (strncmp(upperdir, rootfsdir, rootfslen) != 0)) {
			if (mkdir_p(upperdir, 0755) < 0) {
				WARN("Failed to create upperdir");
			}
                } else {
                        return -1;
                }

	if (workdir)
		if ((strncmp(workdir, lxcpath, dirlen) == 0) && (strncmp(workdir, rootfsdir, rootfslen) != 0)) {
			if (mkdir_p(workdir, 0755) < 0) {
				WARN("Failed to create workdir");
			}
                } else {
                        return -1;
                }

Your point about that this might annoy some people still stands though. But I
think not returning -1 or at least some informative INFO() where the upperdir
actually is located in this case could be a security issue.

>  (For workdir that does not apply, in fact I'm
> tempted to say we should just auto-choose a random workdir if none is given)

We can do this. I will need that function for lxc-copy anyway. What do you
think about something along the lines of:

char *generate_random_name(const char *name, const char *path, const char *sep)
{
	char testpath[MAXPATHLEN];
	char tmp[MAXPATHLEN];
	char *randname = NULL;
	int ret = 0;
	unsigned int seed;
	int suffix = 0;

	do {
#ifndef HAVE_RAND_R
		seed = randseed(true);
#endif

#ifdef HAVE_RAND_R
		seed = randseed(false);
		suffix = rand_r(&seed);
#else
		suffix = rand();
#endif

		if (name)
			ret = snprintf(tmp, MAXPATHLEN, "%s%s%x", name, sep, suffix);
		else
			ret = snprintf(tmp, MAXPATHLEN, "%s%x", sep, suffix);
		if (ret < 0 || ret >= MAXPATHLEN) {
			return NULL;
		}

		ret = snprintf(testpath, MAXPATHLEN, "%s/%s", path, tmp);
		if (ret < 0 || ret >= MAXPATHLEN) {
			return NULL;
		}
	} while (dir_exists(testpath));

	randname = strdup(tmp);
	if (!randname)
		return NULL;

	return randname;
}

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