[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1626972] Re: QEMU memfd_create fallback mechanism change for security drivers

[Louis Bouchard]

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Yakkety)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Zesty)
   Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Rafael David Tinoco (inaddy)
       Status: In Progress

** Also affects: qemu (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  QEMU memfd_create fallback mechanism change for security drivers

Status in QEMU:
  In Progress
Status in qemu package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in qemu source package in Xenial:
  In Progress
Status in qemu source package in Yakkety:
  In Progress
Status in qemu source package in Zesty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  And, when libvirt starts using apparmor, and creating apparmor
  profiles for every virtual machine created in the compute nodes,
  mitaka qemu (2.5 - and upstream also) uses a fallback mechanism for
  creating shared memory for live-migrations. This fall back mechanism,
  on kernels 3.13 - that don't have memfd_create() system-call, try to
  create files on /tmp/ directory and fails.. causing live-migration not
  to work.

  Trusty with kernel 3.13 + Mitaka with qemu 2.5 + apparmor capability =
  can't live migrate.

  From qemu 2.5, logic is on :

  void *qemu_memfd_alloc(const char *name, size_t size, unsigned int seals, int 
*fd)
  {
      if (memfd_create)... ### only works with HWE kernels

      else ### 3.13 kernels, gets blocked by apparmor
         tmpdir = g_get_tmp_dir
         ...
         mfd = mkstemp(fname)
  }

  And you can see the errors:

  From the host trying to send the virtual machine:

  2016-08-15 16:36:26.160 1974 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver 
[req-0cac612b-8d53-4610-b773-d07ad6bacb91 691a581cfa7046278380ce82b1c38ddd 
133ebc3585c041aebaead8c062cd6511 - - -] [instance: 
2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e] Migration operation has aborted
  2016-08-15 16:36:26.248 1974 ERROR nova.virt.libvirt.driver 
[req-0cac612b-8d53-4610-b773-d07ad6bacb91 691a581cfa7046278380ce82b1c38ddd 
133ebc3585c041aebaead8c062cd6511 - - -] [instance: 
2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e] Live Migration failure: internal error: 
unable to execute QEMU command 'migrate': Migration disabled: failed to 
allocate shared memory

  From the host trying to receive the virtual machine:

  Aug 15 16:36:19 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.356794] type=1400 
audit(1471289779.791:72): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" 
profile="unconfined" name="libvirt-2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e" 
pid=12565 comm="apparmor_parser"
  Aug 15 16:36:19 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.357048] type=1400 
audit(1471289779.791:73): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" 
profile="unconfined" name="qemu_bridge_helper" pid=12565 comm="apparmor_parser"
  Aug 15 16:36:20 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.877027] type=1400 
audit(1471289780.311:74): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
profile="unconfined" name="libvirt-2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e" 
pid=12613 comm="apparmor_parser"
  Aug 15 16:36:20 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.904407] type=1400 
audit(1471289780.343:75): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" 
profile="unconfined" name="qemu_bridge_helper" pid=12613 comm="apparmor_parser"
  Aug 15 16:36:20 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.973064] type=1400 
audit(1471289780.407:76): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" 
profile="libvirt-2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e" name="/tmp/memfd-tNpKSj" 
pid=12625 comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=107 
ouid=107
  Aug 15 16:36:20 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.979871] type=1400 
audit(1471289780.411:77): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" 
profile="libvirt-2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e" name="/tmp/" pid=12625 
comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=107 ouid=0
  Aug 15 16:36:20 tkcompute01 kernel: [ 1194.979881] type=1400 
audit(1471289780.411:78): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" 
profile="libvirt-2afa1131-bc8c-43d2-9c4a-962c1bf7723e" name="/var/tmp/" 
pid=12625 comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=107 
ouid=0

  When leaving libvirt without apparmor capabilities (thus not confining
  virtual machines on compute nodes, the live migration works as
  expected, so, clearly, apparmor is stepping into the live migration).
  I'm sure that virtual machines have to be confined and that this isn't
  the desired behaviour...

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