Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD386C433F5 for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 20:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233220AbhL0Uz3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:55:29 -0500 Received: from linux.microsoft.com ([13.77.154.182]:39680 "EHLO linux.microsoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229579AbhL0Uz1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Dec 2021 15:55:27 -0500 Received: from machine.home (lfbn-lyo-1-1484-111.w86-207.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.207.51.111]) by linux.microsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DDEE120B7179; Mon, 27 Dec 2021 12:55:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 linux.microsoft.com DDEE120B7179 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.microsoft.com; s=default; t=1640638526; bh=HueOl0icIDbW5HbZ9Pw28VTajfXTkM3xtqaOIywQqds=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=n/PQxvSbhewEGU4/bJ22YzxtVbSQtFaobXDzl4vdMJJxsKvoWkPfJrfzInEjxtVjS Ccj0FKh2ogv9n6YYW7TVEGJibQ0Oi2zgva2A+X5xgO8xh2oRQjRTVKv/4VSgyXTY2f fO6/hmaZlpspoTof1fWf/kWVZ0zkylmEuq4mfhzY= From: Francis Laniel To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Serge Hallyn , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Francis Laniel Subject: [RFC PATCH v1 0/2] Add capabilities file to sysfs Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:54:58 +0100 Message-Id: <20211227205500.214777-1-flaniel@linux.microsoft.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. First, I hope you are fine and the same for your relatives. Capabilities are used to check if a thread has the right to perform a given action [1]. For example, a thread with CAP_BPF set can use the bpf() syscall. Capabilities are used in the container world. In terms of code, several projects related to container maintain code where the capabilities are written alike include/uapi/linux/capability.h [2][3][4][5]. For these projects, their codebase should be updated when a new capability is added to the kernel. Some other projects rely on [6]. In this case, this header file should reflect the capabilities offered by the kernel. So, in this series, I added a new file to sysfs: /sys/kernel/capabilities. The goal of this file is to be used by "container world" software to know kernel capabilities at run time instead of compile time. The underlying kernel attribute is read-only and its content is the capability number associated with the capability name: root@vm-amd64:~# cat /sys/kernel/capabilities 0 CAP_CHOWN 1 CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE ... 39 CAP_BPF The kernel already exposes the last capability number under: /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap So, I think there should not be any issue exposing all the capabilities it offers. If there is any, please share it as I do not want to introduce issue with this series. Also, if you see any way to improve this series please share it as it would increase this contribution quality. Francis Laniel (2): capability: Add cap_strings. kernel/ksysfs.c: Add capabilities attribute. include/uapi/linux/capability.h | 1 + kernel/capability.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/ksysfs.c | 18 +++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 64 insertions(+) Best regards and thank you in advance for your reviews. --- [1] man capabilities [2] https://github.com/containerd/containerd/blob/1a078e6893d07fec10a4940a5664fab21d6f7d1e/pkg/cap/cap_linux.go#L135 [3] https://github.com/moby/moby/commit/485cf38d48e7111b3d1f584d5e9eab46a902aabc#diff-2e04625b209932e74c617de96682ed72fbd1bb0d0cb9fb7c709cf47a86b6f9c1 moby relies on containerd code. [4] https://github.com/syndtr/gocapability/blob/42c35b4376354fd554efc7ad35e0b7f94e3a0ffb/capability/enum.go#L47 [5] https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/blob/00f56786bb220b55b41748231880ba0e6380519a/libcontainer/capabilities/capabilities.go#L12 runc relies on syndtr package. [6] https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/fafb556f09e6ffd4690c452ff51856b880c089f1/src/libcrun/linux.c#L35 -- 2.30.2