Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2018-11-07

Re: [PATCH v6 0/1] ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace

From: Laurent Vivier <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-01 21:32:05
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On 01/11/2018 04:51, Jann Horn wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 3:59 AM James Bottomley
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Tue, 2018-10-16 at 11:52 +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
quoted
Hi,

Any comment on this last version?

Any chance to be merged?
I've got a use case for this:  I went to one of the Graphene talks in
Edinburgh and it struck me that we seem to keep reinventing the type of
sandboxing that qemu-user already does.  However if you want to do an
x86 on x86 sandbox, you can't currently use the binfmt_misc mechanism
because that has you running *every* binary on the system emulated.
Doing it per user namespace fixes this problem and allows us to at
least cut down on all the pointless duplication.
Waaaaaait. What? qemu-user does not do "sandboxing". qemu-user makes
your code slower and *LESS* secure. As far as I know, qemu-user is
only intended for purposes like development and testing.
I think the idea here is not to run qemu, but to use an interpreter
(something like gVisor) into a container to control the binaries
execution inside the container without using this interpreter on the
host itself (container and host shares the same binfmt_misc magic/mask).

Thanks,
Laurent
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