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# Seccomp filtering
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As a means to harden Cloud Hypervisor's security, the project leverages seccomp
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filtering.
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## What is seccomp filtering
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A seccomp filter is a way for a process to tell the kernel which system calls
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are authorized.
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In case this process calls into a prohibited system call, the kernel will kill
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the process right away.
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## How does it apply to Cloud Hypervisor
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Cloud Hypervisor is a multi threaded application. It spawns dedicated threads
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for virtual CPUs, virtio devices and HTTP server, along with the main thread
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representing the VMM.
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Each of these threads has a limited scope of what it is expected to perform,
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which is why different filters are applied to each of them.
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By default, Cloud Hypervisor enables seccomp filtering as the project believes
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that security should not be an option.
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For development and debugging purposes, one might want to disable this feature
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or log the faulty system call.
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### Disabling seccomp filters
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Append `--seccomp false` to Cloud Hypervisor's command line to prevent seccomp
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filtering from being applied.
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### Logging prohibited system calls
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In the context of debug, one alternative to disabling seccomp filtering is to
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log faulty system calls that would have caused the application to be killed by
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the kernel.
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Append `--seccomp log` to Cloud Hypervisor's command line to enable faulty
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system calls to be logged.
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The kernel running on the host machine must have the `audit` parameter enabled.
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If this is not the case, update kernel boot options by appending `audit=1`.
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Unauthorized system calls will be logged to the journal similarly to the
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following example
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```
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type=SECCOMP msg=audit(1423263412.694:7878): auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 ses=3 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:cloud_hypervisor:s0-s0:c0.c1023 pid=1193 comm="cloud-hypervisor" exe="/usr/bin/cloud-hypervisor" sig=0 arch=c000003e syscall=47 compat=0 ip=0x7f4f63982604 code=0x50000
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```
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Provided `ausyscall` has been installed on the host, the system call can be
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identified with
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```
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$ ausyscall 47
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recvmsg
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```
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### Further debug with `strace`
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One more way of debugging seccomp related issues is to use the `strace` tool as
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it will log every system call issued by the process. It is important to use
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`-f` option in order to trace each and every thread belonging to the process.
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```
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strace --decode-pids=comm -f ./cloud-hypervisor ...
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```
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