On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:48:02AM -0800, David Ahern wrote:
> The recently added VRF support in Linux leverages the bind-to-device
> API for programs to specify an L3 domain for a socket. While
> SO_BINDTODEVICE has been around for ages, not every ipv4/ipv6 capable
> program has support for it. Even for those programs that do support it,
> the API requires processes to be started as root (CAP_NET_RAW) which
> is not desirable from a general security perspective.
>
> This patch set leverages Daniel Mack's work to attach bpf programs to
> a cgroup to provide a capability to set sk_bound_dev_if for all
> AF_INET{6} sockets opened by a process in a cgroup when the sockets
> are allocated.
>
> For example:
> 1. configure vrf (e.g., using ifupdown2)
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> vrf mgmt
>
> auto mgmt
> iface mgmt
> vrf-table auto
>
> 2. configure cgroup
> mount -t cgroup2 none /tmp/cgroupv2
> mkdir /tmp/cgroupv2/mgmt
> test_cgrp2_sock /tmp/cgroupv2/mgmt 15
>
> 3. set shell into cgroup (e.g., can be done at login using pam)
> echo $$ >> /tmp/cgroupv2/mgmt/cgroup.procs
>
> At this point all commands run in the shell (e.g, apt) have sockets
> automatically bound to the VRF (see output of ss -ap 'dev == <vrf>'),
> including processes not running as root.
>
> This capability enables running any program in a VRF context and is key
> to deploying Management VRF, a fundamental configuration for networking
> gear, with any Linux OS installation.
>
> This patchset also exports the socket family, type and protocol as
> read-only allowing bpf filters to deny a process in a cgroup the ability
> to open specific types of AF_INET or AF_INET6 sockets.
>
> v7
> - comments from Alexei
Looks great.
In case you need to change something. Please keep my Acks
on patches that were kept as-is.
Thanks
