//go:build go1.10 // +build go1.10 package unshare // import "github.com/docker/docker/internal/unshare" import ( "fmt" "os" "runtime" "golang.org/x/sys/unix" ) func init() { // The startup thread of a process is special in a few different ways. // Most pertinent to the discussion at hand, any per-thread kernel state // reflected in the /proc/[pid]/ directory for a process is taken from // the state of the startup thread. Same goes for /proc/self/; it shows // the state of the current process' startup thread, no matter which // thread the files are being opened from. For most programs this is a // distinction without a difference as the kernel state, such as the // mount namespace and current working directory, is shared among (and // kept synchronized across) all threads of a process. But things start // to break down once threads start unsharing and modifying parts of // their kernel state. // // The Go runtime schedules goroutines to execute on the startup thread, // same as any other. How this could be problematic is best illustrated // with a concrete example. Consider what happens if a call to // Go(unix.CLONE_NEWNS, ...) spawned a goroutine which gets scheduled // onto the startup thread. The thread's mount namespace will be // unshared and modified. The contents of the /proc/[pid]/mountinfo file // will then describe the mount tree of the unshared namespace, not the // namespace of any other thread. It will remain this way until the // process exits. (The startup thread is special in another way: exiting // it puts the process into a "non-waitable zombie" state. To avoid this // fate, the Go runtime parks the thread instead of exiting if a // goroutine returns while locked to the startup thread. More // information can be found in the Go runtime sources: // `go doc -u -src runtime.mexit`.) The github.com/moby/sys/mountinfo // package reads from /proc/self/mountinfo, so will read the mount tree // for the wrong namespace if the startup thread has had its mount // namespace unshared! The /proc/thread-self/ directory, introduced in // Linux 3.17, is one potential solution to this problem, but every // package which opens files in /proc/self/ would need to be updated, // and fallbacks to /proc/self/task/[tid]/ would be required to support // older kernels. Overlooking any reference to /proc/self/ would // manifest as stochastically-reproducible bugs, so this is far from an // ideal solution. // // Reading from /proc/self/ would not be a problem if we could prevent // the per-thread state of the startup thread from being modified // nondeterministically in the first place. We can accomplish this // simply by locking the main() function to the startup thread! Doing so // excludes any other goroutine from being scheduled on the thread. runtime.LockOSThread() } // reversibleSetnsFlags maps the unshare(2) flags whose effects can be fully // reversed using setns(2). The values are the basenames of the corresponding // /proc/self/task/[tid]/ns/ magic symlinks to use to save and restore the // state. var reversibleSetnsFlags = map[int]string{ unix.CLONE_NEWCGROUP: "cgroup", unix.CLONE_NEWNET: "net", unix.CLONE_NEWUTS: "uts", unix.CLONE_NEWPID: "pid", unix.CLONE_NEWTIME: "time", // The following CLONE_NEW* flags are not included because they imply // another, irreversible flag when used with unshare(2). // - unix.CLONE_NEWIPC: implies CLONE_SYSVMEM // - unix.CLONE_NEWNS: implies CLONE_FS // - unix.CLONE_NEWUSER: implies CLONE_FS since Linux 3.9 } // Go calls the given functions in a new goroutine, locked to an OS thread, // which has had the parts of its execution state disassociated from the rest of // the current process using [unshare(2)]. It blocks until the new goroutine has // started and setupfn has returned. fn is only called if setupfn returns nil. A // nil setupfn or fn is equivalent to passing a no-op function. // // The disassociated execution state and any changes made to it are only visible // to the goroutine which the functions are called in. Any other goroutines, // including ones started from the function, will see the same execution state // as the rest of the process. // // The acceptable flags are documented in the [unshare(2)] Linux man-page. // The corresponding CLONE_* constants are defined in package [unix]. // // # Warning // // This function may terminate the thread which the new goroutine executed on // after fn returns, which could cause subprocesses started with the // [syscall.SysProcAttr] Pdeathsig field set to be signaled before process // termination. Any subprocess started before this function is called may be // affected, in addition to any subprocesses started inside setupfn or fn. // There are more details at https://go.dev/issue/27505. // // [unshare(2)]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/unshare.2.html func Go(flags int, setupfn func() error, fn func()) error { started := make(chan error) maskedFlags := flags for f := range reversibleSetnsFlags { maskedFlags &^= f } isReversible := maskedFlags == 0 go func() { // Prepare to manipulate per-thread kernel state. runtime.LockOSThread() // Not all changes to the execution state can be reverted. // If an irreversible change to the execution state is made, our // only recourse is to have the tampered thread terminated by // returning from this function while the goroutine remains // wired to the thread. The Go runtime will terminate the thread // and replace it with a fresh one as needed. if isReversible { defer func() { if isReversible { // All execution state has been restored without error. // The thread is once again fungible. runtime.UnlockOSThread() } }() tid := unix.Gettid() for f, ns := range reversibleSetnsFlags { if flags&f != f { continue } // The /proc/thread-self directory was added in Linux 3.17. // We are not using it to maximize compatibility. pth := fmt.Sprintf("/proc/self/task/%d/ns/%s", tid, ns) fd, err := unix.Open(pth, unix.O_RDONLY|unix.O_CLOEXEC, 0) if err != nil { started <- &os.PathError{Op: "open", Path: pth, Err: err} return } defer func() { if isReversible { if err := unix.Setns(fd, 0); err != nil { isReversible = false } } _ = unix.Close(fd) }() } } // Threads are implemented under Linux as processes which share // a virtual memory space. Therefore in a multithreaded process // unshare(2) disassociates parts of the calling thread's // context from the thread it was clone(2)'d from. if err := unix.Unshare(flags); err != nil { started <- os.NewSyscallError("unshare", err) return } if setupfn != nil { if err := setupfn(); err != nil { started <- err return } } close(started) if fn != nil { fn() } }() return <-started }