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authorStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2025-02-05 17:21:59 +0100
committerStefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>2025-02-06 09:43:09 +0100
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apparmor: Workaround for unconfined libvirtd when triggered by unprivileged user
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 <prafulla.giri@protonmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--contrib/apparmor/usr.bin.passt21
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/apparmor/usr.bin.passt b/contrib/apparmor/usr.bin.passt
index 9568189..62a4514 100644
--- a/contrib/apparmor/usr.bin.passt
+++ b/contrib/apparmor/usr.bin.passt
@@ -27,4 +27,25 @@ profile passt /usr/bin/passt{,.avx2} {
owner @{HOME}/** w, # pcap(), pidfile_open(),
# pidfile_write()
+
+ # Workaround: libvirt's profile comes with a passt subprofile which includes,
+ # in turn, <abstractions/passt>, and adds libvirt-specific rules on top, to
+ # allow passt (when started by libvirtd) to write socket and PID files in the
+ # location requested by libvirtd itself, and to execute passt itself.
+ #
+ # However, when libvirt runs as unprivileged user, the mechanism based on
+ # virt-aa-helper, designed to build per-VM profiles as guests are started,
+ # doesn't work. The helper needs to create and load profiles on the fly, which
+ # can't be done by unprivileged users, of course.
+ #
+ # As a result, libvirtd runs unconfined if guests are started by unprivileged
+ # users, starting passt unconfined as well, which means that passt runs under
+ # its own stand-alone profile (this one), which implies in turn that execve()
+ # of /usr/bin/passt is not allowed, and socket and PID files can't be written.
+ #
+ # Duplicate libvirt-specific rules here as long as this is not solved in
+ # libvirt's profile itself.
+ /usr/bin/passt r,
+ owner @{run}/user/[0-9]*/libvirt/qemu/run/passt/* rw,
+ owner @{run}/libvirt/qemu/passt/* rw,
}