[Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/5] tools/dm_depriv: Add first cut RLIMITs

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Limit the ability of a potentially compromised QEMU to consume system
resources.  Key limits:
 - RLIMIT_FSIZE (file size): 256KiB
 - RLIMIT_NPROC (after uid changes to a unique uid)

Probably unnecessary limits but why not:
 - RLIMIT_CORE: 0
 - RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE: 0
 - RLIMIT_LOCKS: 0
 - RLIMIT_MEMLOCK: 0

NB that we do not yet set RLIMIT_AS (total virtual memory) or
RLIMIT_NOFILES (number of open files), since these require more care
and/or more coordination with QEMU to implement.

Suggested-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v2:
- Use a macro to define rlimit entries
- Use RLIMIT_NLIMITS as an end-of-list marker, rather than -1
- Various style clean-ups

CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Anthony Perard <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md | 12 +++++-----
 tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c        | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md b/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
index e1c9763a71..9028e68460 100644
--- a/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
+++ b/docs/designs/qemu-deprivilege.md
@@ -105,12 +105,6 @@ call:
 
 [qemu-namespaces]: 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-10/msg04723.html
 
-# Restrictions / improvements still to do
-
-This lists potential restrictions still to do.  It is meant to be
-listed in order of ease of implementation, with low-hanging fruit
-first.
-
 ### Basic RLIMITs
 
 '''Description''': A number of limits on the resources that a given
@@ -137,6 +131,12 @@ are specified; this does not apply to QEMU running as a 
Xen DM.
 
 '''Tested''': Not tested
 
+# Restrictions / improvements still to do
+
+This lists potential restrictions still to do.  It is meant to be
+listed in order of ease of implementation, with low-hanging fruit
+first.
+
 ### Further RLIMITs
 
 RLIMIT_AS limits the total amount of memory; but this includes the
diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
index 34af2e0d90..bd28f9271b 100644
--- a/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
+++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_linux.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include "libxl_osdeps.h" /* must come before any other headers */
 
 #include "libxl_internal.h"
+#include <sys/resource.h>
  
 int libxl__try_phy_backend(mode_t st_mode)
 {
@@ -307,9 +308,31 @@ int libxl__pci_topology_init(libxl__gc *gc,
     return err;
 }
 
+static struct {
+    int resource;
+    rlim_t limit;
+} rlimits[] = {
+#define RLIMIT_ENTRY(r, l) \
+    { .resource = r, .limit = l }
+    /* Big enough for log files, not big enough for a DoS */
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_FSIZE, 256*1024),
+
+    /* Shouldn't need any of these */
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_NPROC, 0),
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_CORE, 0),
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, 0),
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_LOCKS, 0),
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, 0),
+
+    /* End-of-list marker */
+    RLIMIT_ENTRY(RLIMIT_NLIMITS, 0),
+};
+#undef RLIMIT_ENTRY
+
 int libxl__local_dm_preexec_restrict(libxl__gc *gc)
 {
     int r;
+    unsigned i;
 
     /* Unshare mount and IPC namespaces.  These are unused by QEMU. */
     r = unshare(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWIPC);
@@ -318,6 +341,22 @@ int libxl__local_dm_preexec_restrict(libxl__gc *gc)
         return ERROR_FAIL;
     }
 
+    /* Set various "easy" rlimits */
+    for (i = 0; rlimits[i].resource != RLIMIT_NLIMITS; i++) {
+        struct rlimit rlim;
+
+        rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max = rlimits[i].limit;
+        
+        r = setrlimit(rlimits[i].resource, &rlim);
+        if (r < 0) {
+            LOGE(ERROR, "Setting rlimit %d to %lld failed\n",
+                                  rlimits[i].resource,
+                                  (unsigned long long)rlimits[i].limit);
+            return ERROR_FAIL;
+        }
+
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.19.0


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