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David Gibson
ca0c33ae5b Tweak dhclient arguments for readability
A number of tests and examples use dhclient in both IPv4 and IPv6 modes.
We use "dhclient -6" for IPv6, but usually just "dhclient" for IPv4.  Add
an explicit "-4" argument to make it more clear and explicit.

In addition, when dhclient is run from within pasta it usually won't be
"real" root, and so will not have access to write the default global pid
file.  This results in a mostly harmless but irritating error:
    Can't create /var/run/dhclient.pid: Permission denied
We can avoid that by using the --no-pid flag to dhclient.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-06-15 09:38:10 +02:00
David Gibson
2320ac3349 Don't abbreviate ip(8) arguments in examples and tests
ip(8)'s ability to take abbreviated arguments (e.g. "li sh" instead of
"link show") is very handy when using it interactively, but it doesn't make
for very readable scripts and examples when shown that way.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
2022-06-15 09:38:10 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
c447344158 demo/pasta: Fix bad sleep directive
'sleep' always needs an argument, this was meant to introduce
a 2 seconds delay.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-05-19 15:24:15 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
763f281155 demo/pasta: Clean up before rebuilding with -g
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-03-01 21:32:08 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
213c397492 passt, pasta: Run-time selection of AVX2 build
Build-time selection of AVX2 flags and routines is not practical for
distributions, but limiting AVX2 usage to checksum routines with
specific run-time detection doesn't allow for easy performance gains
from auto-vectorisation of batched packet handling routines.

For x86_64, build non-AVX2 and AVX2 binaries, and implement a simple
wrapper replacing the current executable with the AVX2 build if it's
available, and if AVX2 is supported by the current CPU.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-28 16:46:28 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
28fb960451 demo/pasta: Exit namespace in 'ns' pane before restarting pasta
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-28 02:50:25 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
0515adceaa passt, pasta: Namespace-based sandboxing, defer seccomp policy application
To reach (at least) a conceptually equivalent security level as
implemented by --enable-sandbox in slirp4netns, we need to create a
new mount namespace and pivot_root() into a new (empty) mountpoint, so
that passt and pasta can't access any filesystem resource after
initialisation.

While at it, also detach IPC, PID (only for passt, to prevent
vulnerabilities based on the knowledge of a target PID), and UTS
namespaces.

With this approach, if we apply the seccomp filters right after the
configuration step, the number of allowed syscalls grows further. To
prevent this, defer the application of seccomp policies after the
initialisation phase, before the main loop, that's where we expect bad
things to happen, potentially. This way, we get back to 22 allowed
syscalls for passt and 34 for pasta, on x86_64.

While at it, move #syscalls notes to specific code paths wherever it
conceptually makes sense.

We have to open all the file handles we'll ever need before
sandboxing:

- the packet capture file can only be opened once, drop instance
  numbers from the default path and use the (pre-sandbox) PID instead

- /proc/net/tcp{,v6} and /proc/net/udp{,v6}, for automatic detection
  of bound ports in pasta mode, are now opened only once, before
  sandboxing, and their handles are stored in the execution context

- the UNIX domain socket for passt is also bound only once, before
  sandboxing: to reject clients after the first one, instead of
  closing the listening socket, keep it open, accept and immediately
  discard new connection if we already have a valid one

Clarify the (unchanged) behaviour for --netns-only in the man page.

To actually make passt and pasta processes run in a separate PID
namespace, we need to unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) before forking to
background (if configured to do so). Introduce a small daemon()
implementation, __daemon(), that additionally saves the PID file
before forking. While running in foreground, the process itself can't
move to a new PID namespace (a process can't change the notion of its
own PID): mention that in the man page.

For some reason, fork() in a detached PID namespace causes SIGTERM
and SIGQUIT to be ignored, even if the handler is still reported as
SIG_DFL: add a signal handler that just exits.

We can now drop most of the pasta_child_handler() implementation,
that took care of terminating all processes running in the same
namespace, if pasta started a shell: the shell itself is now the
init process in that namespace, and all children will terminate
once the init process exits.

Issuing 'echo $$' in a detached PID namespace won't return the
actual namespace PID as seen from the init namespace: adapt
demo and test setup scripts to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-02-21 13:41:13 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
6910c1ef28 demo/pasta: Don't wait for pasta to return to a prompt
Debug information might be printed after a prompt is seen,
just wait those 3 seconds and be done with it.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2022-01-26 16:30:59 +01:00
Stefano Brivio
7f1e7019cb test/demo: Don't wait for # after pasta is started by perf report
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-20 08:34:22 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
6231422dfb demo/pasta: Swap init>ns and ns>init flows
...make those short performance tests actually match table headers.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-15 20:46:17 +02:00
Giuseppe Scrivano
9a175cc2ce pasta: Allow specifying paths and names of namespaces
Based on a patch from Giuseppe Scrivano, this adds the ability to:

- specify paths and names of target namespaces to join, instead of
  a PID, also for user namespaces, with --userns

- request to join or create a network namespace only, without
  entering or creating a user namespace, with --netns-only

- specify the base directory for netns mountpoints, with --nsrun-dir

Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
[sbrivio: reworked logic to actually join the given namespaces when
 they're not created, implemented --netns-only and --nsrun-dir,
 updated pasta demo script and man page]
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-07 04:05:15 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
529b245d2b demo/pasta: Enter the right directory before issuing perf report -g
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-10-04 22:21:21 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
4e5129719d test: Record CI and demo videos in Xvfb by default, fix demo setup sequence
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-29 16:45:26 +02:00
Stefano Brivio
061519b562 test: Add CI/demo scripts
Not really quick, definitely dirty.

Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
2021-09-27 15:10:35 +02:00