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<title>apparmor: Upgrade ABI version to 4.0, explicitly enable user namespace creation</title>
<updated>2026-01-14T00:07:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2026-01-10T13:15:44+00:00</published>
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In the 3.0 AppArmor ABI version we currently use, user namespace rules
are not supported, and, as long as we load confined profiles, those
implicitly allow creation of user namespaces.

However, ABI version 4.0 introduces rules for user namespaces, and if
we don't specify any, we can't create user namespaces, see:

  https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/unprivileged_userns_restriction

This wouldn't affect us in general, given that we're using the 3.0
ABI, but libvirt's policy uses 4.0 instead, and if our abstractions
are used from there, no matter what ABI policy version we declare,
rules for user namespace creation now match ABI policy version 4.0.

As a result, when libvirtd runs as root, and its profile includes
passt's abstraction, cf. commit 66769c2de825 ("apparmor: Workaround
for unconfined libvirtd when triggered by unprivileged user"), passt
can't detach user namespaces and will fail to start, as reported by
Niklas:

  ERROR    internal error: Child process (passt --one-off --socket /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0.socket --pid /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0-passt.pid --tcp-ports 8123) unexpected exit status 1: Multiple interfaces with IPv6 routes, picked first
  UNIX domain socket bound at /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0.socket
  Couldn't create user namespace: Permission denied

This isn't a problem with libvirtd running as regular user, because
in that case, as a workaround, passt currently runs under its own
profile, not as a libvirtd subprofile (see commit referenced above).

Given that ABI 4.0 has been around for a while, being introduced in
July 2023, finally take the step to upgrade to it and explicitly
enable user namespace creation.

No further changes are needed in the existing policies to match new
features introduced in AppArmor 4.0.

Reported-by: Niklas Edmundsson &lt;nikke@accum.se&gt;
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1124801
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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In the 3.0 AppArmor ABI version we currently use, user namespace rules
are not supported, and, as long as we load confined profiles, those
implicitly allow creation of user namespaces.

However, ABI version 4.0 introduces rules for user namespaces, and if
we don't specify any, we can't create user namespaces, see:

  https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/wikis/unprivileged_userns_restriction

This wouldn't affect us in general, given that we're using the 3.0
ABI, but libvirt's policy uses 4.0 instead, and if our abstractions
are used from there, no matter what ABI policy version we declare,
rules for user namespace creation now match ABI policy version 4.0.

As a result, when libvirtd runs as root, and its profile includes
passt's abstraction, cf. commit 66769c2de825 ("apparmor: Workaround
for unconfined libvirtd when triggered by unprivileged user"), passt
can't detach user namespaces and will fail to start, as reported by
Niklas:

  ERROR    internal error: Child process (passt --one-off --socket /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0.socket --pid /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0-passt.pid --tcp-ports 8123) unexpected exit status 1: Multiple interfaces with IPv6 routes, picked first
  UNIX domain socket bound at /run/libvirt/qemu/passt/1-haos-net0.socket
  Couldn't create user namespace: Permission denied

This isn't a problem with libvirtd running as regular user, because
in that case, as a workaround, passt currently runs under its own
profile, not as a libvirtd subprofile (see commit referenced above).

Given that ABI 4.0 has been around for a while, being introduced in
July 2023, finally take the step to upgrade to it and explicitly
enable user namespace creation.

No further changes are needed in the existing policies to match new
features introduced in AppArmor 4.0.

Reported-by: Niklas Edmundsson &lt;nikke@accum.se&gt;
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1124801
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: Workaround for unconfined libvirtd when triggered by unprivileged user</title>
<updated>2025-02-06T08:43:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-05T16:21:59+00:00</published>
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If libvirtd is triggered by an unprivileged user, the virt-aa-helper
mechanism doesn't work, because per-VM profiles can't be instantiated,
and as a result libvirtd runs unconfined.

This means passt can't start, because the passt subprofile from
libvirt's profile is not loaded either.

Example:

  $ virsh start alpine
  error: Failed to start domain 'alpine'
  error: internal error: Child process (passt --one-off --socket /run/user/1000/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/1-alpine-net0.socket --pid /run/user/1000/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/1-alpine-net0-passt.pid --tcp-ports 40922:2) unexpected fatal signal 11

Add an annoying workaround for the moment being. Much better than
encouraging users to start guests as root, or to disable AppArmor
altogether.

Reported-by: Prafulla Giri &lt;prafulla.giri@protonmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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If libvirtd is triggered by an unprivileged user, the virt-aa-helper
mechanism doesn't work, because per-VM profiles can't be instantiated,
and as a result libvirtd runs unconfined.

This means passt can't start, because the passt subprofile from
libvirt's profile is not loaded either.

Example:

  $ virsh start alpine
  error: Failed to start domain 'alpine'
  error: internal error: Child process (passt --one-off --socket /run/user/1000/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/1-alpine-net0.socket --pid /run/user/1000/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/1-alpine-net0-passt.pid --tcp-ports 40922:2) unexpected fatal signal 11

Add an annoying workaround for the moment being. Much better than
encouraging users to start guests as root, or to disable AppArmor
altogether.

Reported-by: Prafulla Giri &lt;prafulla.giri@protonmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>apparmor: Fix comments after PID file and AF_UNIX socket creation refactoring</title>
<updated>2024-05-23T14:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-23T11:14:22+00:00</published>
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Now:
- we don't open the PID file in main() anymore
- PID file and AF_UNIX socket are opened by pidfile_open() and
  tap_sock_unix_open()
- write_pidfile() becomes pidfile_write()

Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
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Now:
- we don't open the PID file in main() anymore
- PID file and AF_UNIX socket are opened by pidfile_open() and
  tap_sock_unix_open()
- write_pidfile() becomes pidfile_write()

Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: Add pasta's own profile</title>
<updated>2023-09-06T22:31:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-06T20:55:22+00:00</published>
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If pasta and pasta.avx2 are hard links to passt and passt.avx2,
AppArmor will attach their own profiles on execution, and we can
restrict passt's profile to what it actually needs. Note that pasta
needs to access all the resources that passt needs, so the pasta
abstraction still includes passt's one.

I plan to push the adaptation required for the Debian package in
commit 5bb812e79143 ("debian/rules: Override pasta symbolic links
with hard links"), on Salsa. If other distributions need to support
AppArmor profiles they can follow a similar approach.

The profile itself will be installed, there, via dh_apparmor, in a
separate commit, b52557fedcb1 ("debian/rules: Install new pasta
profile using dh_apparmor").

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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If pasta and pasta.avx2 are hard links to passt and passt.avx2,
AppArmor will attach their own profiles on execution, and we can
restrict passt's profile to what it actually needs. Note that pasta
needs to access all the resources that passt needs, so the pasta
abstraction still includes passt's one.

I plan to push the adaptation required for the Debian package in
commit 5bb812e79143 ("debian/rules: Override pasta symbolic links
with hard links"), on Salsa. If other distributions need to support
AppArmor profiles they can follow a similar approach.

The profile itself will be installed, there, via dh_apparmor, in a
separate commit, b52557fedcb1 ("debian/rules: Install new pasta
profile using dh_apparmor").

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>passt: Relicense to GPL 2.0, or any later version</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T16:00:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-05T18:11:44+00:00</published>
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.

Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.

Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>contrib/apparmor: Split profile into abstractions, use them</title>
<updated>2023-02-27T17:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-27T16:24:40+00:00</published>
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One day, libvirt might actually support running passt to provide
guest connectivity. Should libvirtd (or virtqemud) start passt, it
will need to access socket and PID files in specific locations, and
passt needs to accept SIGTERM in case QEMU fails to start after passt
is already started.

To make this more convenient, split the current profile into two
abstractions, for passt and for pasta, so that external programmes
can include the bits they need (and especially not include the pasta
abstraction if they only need to start passt), plus whatever specific
adaptation is needed.

For stand-alone usage of passt and pasta, the 'passt' profile simply
includes both abstractions, plus rules to create and access PID and
capture files in default or reasonable ($HOME) locations.

Tested on Debian with libvirt 9.0.0 together with a local fix to start
passt as intended, namely libvirt commit c0efdbdb9f66 ("qemu_passt:
Avoid double daemonizing passt"). This is an example of how the
libvirtd profile (or virtqemud abstraction, or virtqemud profile) can
use this:

  # support for passt network back-end
  /usr/bin/passt Cx -&gt; passt,
  profile passt {
    /usr/bin/passt r,

    owner @{run}/user/[0-9]*/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/* rw,
    signal (receive) set=("term") peer=/usr/sbin/libvirtd,
    signal (receive) set=("term") peer=libvirtd,

    include if exists &lt;abstractions/passt&gt;
  }

translated:

- when executing /usr/bin/passt, switch to the subprofile "passt"
  (not the "discrete", i.e. stand-alone profile), described below.
  Scrub the environment (e.g. LD_PRELOAD is dropped)

- in the "passt" subprofile:

  - allow reading the binary

  - allow read and write access to PID and socket files

  - make passt accept SIGTERM from /usr/sbin/libvirtd, and
    libvirtd peer names

  - include anything else that's needed by passt itself

Suggested-by: Andrea Bolognani &lt;abologna@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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One day, libvirt might actually support running passt to provide
guest connectivity. Should libvirtd (or virtqemud) start passt, it
will need to access socket and PID files in specific locations, and
passt needs to accept SIGTERM in case QEMU fails to start after passt
is already started.

To make this more convenient, split the current profile into two
abstractions, for passt and for pasta, so that external programmes
can include the bits they need (and especially not include the pasta
abstraction if they only need to start passt), plus whatever specific
adaptation is needed.

For stand-alone usage of passt and pasta, the 'passt' profile simply
includes both abstractions, plus rules to create and access PID and
capture files in default or reasonable ($HOME) locations.

Tested on Debian with libvirt 9.0.0 together with a local fix to start
passt as intended, namely libvirt commit c0efdbdb9f66 ("qemu_passt:
Avoid double daemonizing passt"). This is an example of how the
libvirtd profile (or virtqemud abstraction, or virtqemud profile) can
use this:

  # support for passt network back-end
  /usr/bin/passt Cx -&gt; passt,
  profile passt {
    /usr/bin/passt r,

    owner @{run}/user/[0-9]*/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/* rw,
    signal (receive) set=("term") peer=/usr/sbin/libvirtd,
    signal (receive) set=("term") peer=libvirtd,

    include if exists &lt;abstractions/passt&gt;
  }

translated:

- when executing /usr/bin/passt, switch to the subprofile "passt"
  (not the "discrete", i.e. stand-alone profile), described below.
  Scrub the environment (e.g. LD_PRELOAD is dropped)

- in the "passt" subprofile:

  - allow reading the binary

  - allow read and write access to PID and socket files

  - make passt accept SIGTERM from /usr/sbin/libvirtd, and
    libvirtd peer names

  - include anything else that's needed by passt itself

Suggested-by: Andrea Bolognani &lt;abologna@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>contrib/apparmor: Merge pasta and passt profiles, update rules</title>
<updated>2022-11-16T14:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T22:56:52+00:00</published>
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AppArmor resolves executable links before profile attachment rules
are evaluated, so, as long as pasta is installed as a link to passt,
there's no way to differentiate the two cases. Merge the two profiles
and leave a TODO note behind, explaining two possible ways forward.

Update the rules so that passt and pasta are actually usable, once
the profile is installed. Most required changes are related to
isolation and sandboxing features.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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AppArmor resolves executable links before profile attachment rules
are evaluated, so, as long as pasta is installed as a link to passt,
there's no way to differentiate the two cases. Merge the two profiles
and leave a TODO note behind, explaining two possible ways forward.

Update the rules so that passt and pasta are actually usable, once
the profile is installed. Most required changes are related to
isolation and sandboxing features.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>passt, pasta: Add examples of AppArmor policies</title>
<updated>2022-03-29T13:35:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-27T19:58:11+00:00</published>
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These should cover any reasonably common use case in distributions.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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These should cover any reasonably common use case in distributions.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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