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author | Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> | 2009-01-15 16:50:59 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-15 19:39:37 -0500 |
commit | 45ce80fb6b6f9594d1396d44dd7e7c02d596fef8 (patch) | |
tree | 2409270f7073c08329ac01c82df0509a264af48c /Documentation/cgroups/devices.txt | |
parent | 23964d2d02984d44aeb2d84d7ffb3359e728df43 (diff) |
cgroups: consolidate cgroup documents
Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to
Documentation/cgroups/
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 | Device Whitelist Controller | ||
2 | |||
3 | 1. Description: | ||
4 | |||
5 | Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions | ||
6 | on device files. A device cgroup associates a device access | ||
7 | whitelist with each cgroup. A whitelist entry has 4 fields. | ||
8 | 'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block). 'all' means it applies | ||
9 | to all types and all major and minor numbers. Major and minor are | ||
10 | either an integer or * for all. Access is a composition of r | ||
11 | (read), w (write), and m (mknod). | ||
12 | |||
13 | The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'. A child device | ||
14 | cgroup gets a copy of the parent. Administrators can then remove | ||
15 | devices from the whitelist or add new entries. A child cgroup can | ||
16 | never receive a device access which is denied by its parent. However | ||
17 | when a device access is removed from a parent it will not also be | ||
18 | removed from the child(ren). | ||
19 | |||
20 | 2. User Interface | ||
21 | |||
22 | An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using | ||
23 | devices.deny. For instance | ||
24 | |||
25 | echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow | ||
26 | |||
27 | allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as | ||
28 | /dev/null. Doing | ||
29 | |||
30 | echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny | ||
31 | |||
32 | will remove the default 'a *:* rwm' entry. Doing | ||
33 | |||
34 | echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.allow | ||
35 | |||
36 | will add the 'a *:* rwm' entry to the whitelist. | ||
37 | |||
38 | 3. Security | ||
39 | |||
40 | Any task can move itself between cgroups. This clearly won't | ||
41 | suffice, but we can decide the best way to adequately restrict | ||
42 | movement as people get some experience with this. We may just want | ||
43 | to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which at least is a separate bit from | ||
44 | CAP_MKNOD. We may want to just refuse moving to a cgroup which | ||
45 | isn't a descendent of the current one. Or we may want to use | ||
46 | CAP_MAC_ADMIN, since we really are trying to lock down root. | ||
47 | |||
48 | CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to modify the whitelist or move another | ||
49 | task to a new cgroup. (Again we'll probably want to change that). | ||
50 | |||
51 | A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's | ||
52 | parent has. | ||