Virtualization - Aug 2023 - [PATCH v3 0/3] vduse: add support for networking devices

On 8/11/23 00:00, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:42:11 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> Directly into the stack? I thought VDUSE is vDPA in user space,
>>> meaning to get to the kernel the packet has to first go thru
>>> a virtio-net instance.
>>
>> yes. is that a sufficient filter in your opinion?
> 
> Yes, the ability to create the device feels stronger than CAP_NET_RAW,
> and a bit tangential to CAP_NET_ADMIN. But I don't have much practical
> experience with virt so no strong opinion, perhaps it does make sense
> for someone's deployment? Dunno..
> 
I'm not sure CAP_NET_ADMIN should be required for creating the VDUSE
devices, as the device could be attached to vhost-vDPA and so not
visible to the Kernel networking stack.

However, CAP_NET_ADMIN should be required to attach the VDUSE device to 
virtio-vdpa/virtio-net.

Does that make sense?

Maxime

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 03:34:06PM +0200, Maxime Coquelin
wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/11/23 00:00, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:42:11 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Directly into the stack? I thought VDUSE is vDPA in user
space,
> > > > meaning to get to the kernel the packet has to first go thru
> > > > a virtio-net instance.
> > > 
> > > yes. is that a sufficient filter in your opinion?
> > 
> > Yes, the ability to create the device feels stronger than CAP_NET_RAW,
> > and a bit tangential to CAP_NET_ADMIN. But I don't have much
practical
> > experience with virt so no strong opinion, perhaps it does make sense
> > for someone's deployment? Dunno..
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure CAP_NET_ADMIN should be required for creating the VDUSE
> devices, as the device could be attached to vhost-vDPA and so not
> visible to the Kernel networking stack.
> 
> However, CAP_NET_ADMIN should be required to attach the VDUSE device to
> virtio-vdpa/virtio-net.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> Maxime
OK. How are we going to enforce it?
Also, we need a way for selinux to enable/disable some of these things
but not others.

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MST