Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit 7b146ceb authored by Andrey Ignatov's avatar Andrey Ignatov Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
Browse files

bpf: Sysctl hook


Containerized applications may run as root and it may create problems
for whole host. Specifically such applications may change a sysctl and
affect applications in other containers.

Furthermore in existing infrastructure it may not be possible to just
completely disable writing to sysctl, instead such a process should be
gradual with ability to log what sysctl are being changed by a
container, investigate, limit the set of writable sysctl to currently
used ones (so that new ones can not be changed) and eventually reduce
this set to zero.

The patch introduces new program type BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL and
attach type BPF_CGROUP_SYSCTL to solve these problems on cgroup basis.

New program type has access to following minimal context:
	struct bpf_sysctl {
		__u32	write;
	};

Where @write indicates whether sysctl is being read (= 0) or written (=
1).

Helpers to access sysctl name and value will be introduced separately.

BPF_CGROUP_SYSCTL attach point is added to sysctl code right before
passing control to ctl_table->proc_handler so that BPF program can
either allow or deny access to sysctl.

Suggested-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent b1cd609d
No related branches found
No related tags found
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment