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<title>passt-repair: Add directory watch</title>
<updated>2025-03-12T20:34:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-03-07T22:27:03+00:00</published>
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It might not be feasible for users to start passt-repair after passt
is started, on a migration target, but before the migration process
starts.

For instance, with libvirt, the guest domain (and, hence, passt) is
started on the target as part of the migration process. At least for
the moment being, there's no hook a libvirt user (including KubeVirt)
can use to start passt-repair before the migration starts.

Add a directory watch using inotify: if PATH is a directory, instead
of connecting to it, we'll watch for a .repair socket file to appear
in it, and then attempt to connect to that socket.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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It might not be feasible for users to start passt-repair after passt
is started, on a migration target, but before the migration process
starts.

For instance, with libvirt, the guest domain (and, hence, passt) is
started on the target as part of the migration process. At least for
the moment being, there's no hook a libvirt user (including KubeVirt)
can use to start passt-repair before the migration starts.

Add a directory watch using inotify: if PATH is a directory, instead
of connecting to it, we'll watch for a .repair socket file to appear
in it, and then attempt to connect to that socket.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selinux: Fixes/workarounds for passt and passt-repair, mostly for libvirt usage</title>
<updated>2025-02-28T00:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2025-02-28T00:14:01+00:00</published>
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Here are a bunch of workarounds and a couple of fixes for libvirt
usage which are rather hard to split into single logical patches
as there appear to be some obscure dependencies between some of them:

- passt-repair needs to have an exec_type typeattribute (otherwise
  the policy for lsmd(1) causes a violation on getattr on its
  executable) file, and that typeattribute just happened to be there
  for passt as a result of init_daemon_domain(), but passt-repair
  isn't a daemon, so we need an explicit corecmd_executable_file()

- passt-repair needs a workaround, which I'll revisit once
  https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/issues/2579 is
  solved, for usage with libvirt: allow it to use qemu_var_run_t
  and virt_var_run_t sockets

- add 'bpf' and 'dac_read_search' capabilities for passt-repair:
  they are needed (for whatever reason I didn't investigate) to
  actually receive socket files via SCM_RIGHTS

- passt needs further workarounds in the sense of
  https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/issues/2579:
  allow it to use map and use svirt_tmpfs_t (not just svirt_image_t):
  it depends on where the libvirt guest image is

- ...it also needs to map /dev/null if &lt;access mode='shared'/&gt; is
  enabled in libvirt's XML for the memoryBacking object, for
  vhost-user operation

- and 'ioctl' on the TCP socket appears to be actually needed, on top
  of 'getattr', to dump some socket parameters

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Here are a bunch of workarounds and a couple of fixes for libvirt
usage which are rather hard to split into single logical patches
as there appear to be some obscure dependencies between some of them:

- passt-repair needs to have an exec_type typeattribute (otherwise
  the policy for lsmd(1) causes a violation on getattr on its
  executable) file, and that typeattribute just happened to be there
  for passt as a result of init_daemon_domain(), but passt-repair
  isn't a daemon, so we need an explicit corecmd_executable_file()

- passt-repair needs a workaround, which I'll revisit once
  https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/issues/2579 is
  solved, for usage with libvirt: allow it to use qemu_var_run_t
  and virt_var_run_t sockets

- add 'bpf' and 'dac_read_search' capabilities for passt-repair:
  they are needed (for whatever reason I didn't investigate) to
  actually receive socket files via SCM_RIGHTS

- passt needs further workarounds in the sense of
  https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/issues/2579:
  allow it to use map and use svirt_tmpfs_t (not just svirt_image_t):
  it depends on where the libvirt guest image is

- ...it also needs to map /dev/null if &lt;access mode='shared'/&gt; is
  enabled in libvirt's XML for the memoryBacking object, for
  vhost-user operation

- and 'ioctl' on the TCP socket appears to be actually needed, on top
  of 'getattr', to dump some socket parameters

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>contrib/fedora: Actually install passt-repair SELinux policy file</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T22:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T08:49:40+00:00</published>
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Otherwise we build it, but we don't install it. Not an issue that
warrants a a release right away as it's anyway usable.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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Otherwise we build it, but we don't install it. Not an issue that
warrants a a release right away as it's anyway usable.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>migrate: Migrate TCP flows</title>
<updated>2025-02-17T07:29:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-13T12:14:13+00:00</published>
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This implements flow preparation on the source, transfer of data with
a format roughly inspired by struct tcp_tap_conn, plus a specific
structure for parameters that don't fit in the flow table, and flow
insertion on the target, with all the appropriate window options,
window scaling, MSS, etc.

Contents of pending queues are transferred as well.

The target side is rather convoluted because we first need to create
sockets and switch them to repair mode, before we can apply options
that are *not* stored in the flow table. This also means that, if
we're testing this on the same machine, in the same namespace, we need
to close the listening socket on the source before we can start moving
data.

Further, we need to connect() the socket on the target before we can
restore data queues, but we can't do that (again, on the same machine)
as long as the matching source socket is open, which implies an
arbitrary limit on queue sizes we can transfer, because we can only
dump pending queues on the source as long as the socket is open, of
course.

Co-authored-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This implements flow preparation on the source, transfer of data with
a format roughly inspired by struct tcp_tap_conn, plus a specific
structure for parameters that don't fit in the flow table, and flow
insertion on the target, with all the appropriate window options,
window scaling, MSS, etc.

Contents of pending queues are transferred as well.

The target side is rather convoluted because we first need to create
sockets and switch them to repair mode, before we can apply options
that are *not* stored in the flow table. This also means that, if
we're testing this on the same machine, in the same namespace, we need
to close the listening socket on the source before we can start moving
data.

Further, we need to connect() the socket on the target before we can
restore data queues, but we can't do that (again, on the same machine)
as long as the matching source socket is open, which implies an
arbitrary limit on queue sizes we can transfer, because we can only
dump pending queues on the source as long as the socket is open, of
course.

Co-authored-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Tested-by: David Gibson &lt;david@gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>contrib/selinux: Enable mapping guest memory for libvirt guests</title>
<updated>2025-02-14T09:04:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-13T21:00:57+00:00</published>
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This doesn't actually belong to passt's own policy: we should export
an interface and libvirt's policy should use it, because passt's
policy shouldn't be aware of svirt_image_t at all.

However, libvirt doesn't maintain its own policy, which makes policy
updates rather involved. Add this workaround to ensure --vhost-user
is working in combination with libvirt, as it might take ages before
we can get the proper rule in libvirt's policy.

Reported-by: Laine Stump &lt;laine@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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This doesn't actually belong to passt's own policy: we should export
an interface and libvirt's policy should use it, because passt's
policy shouldn't be aware of svirt_image_t at all.

However, libvirt doesn't maintain its own policy, which makes policy
updates rather involved. Add this workaround to ensure --vhost-user
is working in combination with libvirt, as it might take ages before
we can get the proper rule in libvirt's policy.

Reported-by: Laine Stump &lt;laine@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>selinux: Add rules needed to run tests</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T23:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-12T23:42:52+00:00</published>
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...other than being convenient, they might be reasonably
representative of typical stand-alone usage.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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...other than being convenient, they might be reasonably
representative of typical stand-alone usage.

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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<entry>
<title>Introduce passt-repair</title>
<updated>2025-02-04T00:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T23:03:13+00:00</published>
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A privileged helper to set/clear TCP_REPAIR on sockets on behalf of
passt. Not used yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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A privileged helper to set/clear TCP_REPAIR on sockets on behalf of
passt. Not used yet.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pasta.te: fix demo.sh and remove one duplicate rule</title>
<updated>2025-02-03T06:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>7ppKb5bW</name>
<email>pONy4THS@protonmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-02T19:21:21+00:00</published>
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On Fedora 41, without "allow pasta_t unconfined_t:dir read"
/usr/bin/pasta can't open /proc/[pid]/ns, which is required by
pasta_netns_quit_init().

This patch also remove one duplicate rule "allow pasta_t nsfs_t:file
read;", "allow pasta_t nsfs_t:file { open read };" at line 123 is
enough.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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On Fedora 41, without "allow pasta_t unconfined_t:dir read"
/usr/bin/pasta can't open /proc/[pid]/ns, which is required by
pasta_netns_quit_init().

This patch also remove one duplicate rule "allow pasta_t nsfs_t:file
read;", "allow pasta_t nsfs_t:file { open read };" at line 123 is
enough.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selinux: Use auth_read_passwd() interface for all our getpwnam() needs</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T20:10:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefano Brivio</name>
<email>sbrivio@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-14T22:48:54+00:00</published>
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If passt or pasta are started as root, we need to read the passwd file
(be it /etc/passwd or whatever sssd provides) to find out UID and GID
of 'nobody' so that we can switch to it.

Instead of a bunch of allow rules for passwd_file_t and sssd macros,
use the more convenient auth_read_passwd() interface which should
cover our usage of getpwnam().

The existing rules weren't actually enough:

  # strace -e openat passt -f
  [...]
  Started as root, will change to nobody.
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4

with corresponding SELinux warnings logged in audit.log.

Reported-by: Minxi Hou &lt;mhou@redhat.com&gt;
Analysed-by: Miloš Malik &lt;mmalik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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If passt or pasta are started as root, we need to read the passwd file
(be it /etc/passwd or whatever sssd provides) to find out UID and GID
of 'nobody' so that we can switch to it.

Instead of a bunch of allow rules for passwd_file_t and sssd macros,
use the more convenient auth_read_passwd() interface which should
cover our usage of getpwnam().

The existing rules weren't actually enough:

  # strace -e openat passt -f
  [...]
  Started as root, will change to nobody.
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib64/libnss_sss.so.2", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/sss/mc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
  openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4

with corresponding SELinux warnings logged in audit.log.

Reported-by: Minxi Hou &lt;mhou@redhat.com&gt;
Analysed-by: Miloš Malik &lt;mmalik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
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