systemd-mountfsd so far provided a MountImage() API call for mounting a
disk image and returning a set of mount fds. This complements the API
with a new MountDirectory() API call, that operates on a directory
instead of an image file. Now, what makes this interesting is that it
applies an idmapping from the foreign UID range to the provided target
userns – and in which case unpriveleged operation is allowed (well,
under some conditions: in particular the client must own a parent dir of
the provided path).
This allows container managers to run fully unprivileged from
directories – as long as those directories are owned by the foreign UID
range. Basic operation is like this:
1. acquire a transient userns from systemd-nsresourced with 64K users
2. ask systemd-mountfsd for an idmapped mount of the container dir
matching that userns
3. join the userns and bind the mount fd as root.
Note that we have to drop various sandboxing knobs from the mountfsd
service file for this to work, since the kernel's security checks that
try to ensure than an obstructed /proc/ cannot be circumvented via
mounting a new procfs will otherwise prohibit mountfsd to duplicate the
mounts properly.
…ith fd passing enabled
Let's add a simple flag that enables fd passing for all connections of a
server. It's much easier to use this than to install a connect handler
which manually enables this for each connection.
- Make fd_is_namespace() take NamespaceType
- Drop support for kernel without NS_GET_NSTYPE (< 4.11)
- Port is_our_namespace() to namespace_open_by_type()
(preparation for later commits, where the latter
would go by pidfd if available, avoiding procfs)
The values that were previously hardcoded in sd-varlink.c are now defined
in new varlink_set_info_systemd() and that function is called everywhere
where we create a server.
It's time. sd-json was already done earlier in this cycle, let's now
make sd-varlink public too.
This is mostly just a search/replace job of epical proportions.
I left some functions internal (mostly IDL handling), and I turned some
static inline calls into regular calls.
This is preparation for making our Varlink API a public API. Since our
Varlink API is built on top of our JSON API we need to make that public
first (it's a nice API, but JSON APIs there are already enough, this is
purely about the Varlink angle).
I made most of the json.h APIs public, and just placed them in
sd-json.h. Sometimes I wasn't so sure however, since the underlying data
structures would have to be made public too. If in doubt I didn#t risk
it, and moved the relevant API to src/libsystemd/sd-json/json-util.h
instead (without any sd_* symbol prefixes).
This is mostly a giant search/replace patch.
