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| author | Dylan Reid <dgreid@google.com> | Wed May 12 17:06:25 2021 -0700 |
| committer | Dylan Reid <dgreid@google.com> | Wed May 12 17:06:25 2021 -0700 |
| tree | 832aaffc3276b8ebfc0960c3d4bc4138ad8a6490 | |
| parent | 1403606682541761bc74399e798e912969c7c886 [diff] |
Add minijail_copy_jail crosvm's main process sets up many identical jails. For example, by default there are four serial devices that use the same jail. Allowing a jail to be cloned places all that set up in one place. TEST=Added a marshall test as that infrastructure is re-used. BUG=b/187741537 Change-Id: I8743e35a47fb118d300e831d3dd6b5dc54cc7c34
The Minijail homepage is https://google.github.io/minijail/.
The main source repo is https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/minijail/.
There might be other copies floating around, but this is the official one!
Minijail is a sandboxing and containment tool used in Chrome OS and Android. It provides an executable that can be used to launch and sandbox other programs, and a library that can be used by code to sandbox itself.
You're one git clone away from happiness.
$ git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/minijail $ cd minijail
Releases are tagged as linux-vXX: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/minijail/+refs
See the HACKING.md document for more details.
See the RELEASE.md document for more details.
See the tools/README.md document for more details.
We've got a couple of contact points.
The following talk serves as a good introduction to Minijail and how it can be used.
The Chromium OS project has a comprehensive sandboxing document that is largely based on Minijail.
After you play with the simple examples below, you should check that out.
# id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),128(pkcs11) # minijail0 -u jorgelo -g 5000 /usr/bin/id uid=72178(jorgelo) gid=5000(eng) groups=5000(eng)
# minijail0 -u jorgelo -c 3000 -- /bin/cat /proc/self/status Name: cat ... CapInh: 0000000000003000 CapPrm: 0000000000003000 CapEff: 0000000000003000 CapBnd: 0000000000003000
Q. "Why is it called minijail0?"
A. It is minijail0 because it was a rewrite of an earlier program named minijail, which was considerably less mini, and in particular had a dependency on libchrome (the Chrome OS packaged version of Chromium's //base). We needed a new name to not collide with the deprecated one.
We didn't want to call it minijail2 or something that would make people start using it before we were ready, and it was also concretely less since it dropped libbase, etc. Technically, we needed to be able to fork/preload with minimal extra syscall noise which was too hard with libbase at the time (onexit handlers, etc that called syscalls we didn't want to allow). Also, Elly made a strong case that C would be the right choice for this for linking and ease of controlled surprise system call use.
https://crrev.com/c/4585/ added the original implementation.
Source: Conversations with original authors, ellyjones@ and wad@.