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Aleksa Sarai 9d8fa6d695 libcontainer: dmz: fix "go get" builds
Because runc-dmz is not checked into Git, go get will end up creating a
copy of libcontainer/dmz with no runc-dmz binary, which causes external
libcontainer users to have compilation errors.

Unfortunately, we cannot get go:embed to just ignore that there are no
files matching the provided pattern, so instead we need to create a
dummy file that matches the go:embed (which we check into Git and so go
get _will_ copy) and switch to embed.FS.

This is a little bit uglier, but at least it will fix external
libcontainer users.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
2023-11-03 08:23:14 +11:00
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Runc-dmz

runc-dmz is a small and very simple binary used to execute the container's entrypoint.

Making it small

To make it small we use the Linux kernel's nolibc include files, so we don't use the libc.

A full cp of it is here in nolibc/, but removing the Makefile that is GPL. DO NOT FORGET to remove the GPL code if updating the nolibc/ directory.

The current version in that folder is from Linux 6.6-rc3 tag (556fb7131e03b0283672fb40f6dc2d151752aaa7).

It also support all the architectures we support in runc.

If the GOARCH we use for compiling doesn't support nolibc, it fallbacks to using the C stdlib.

SELinux compatibility issue and a workaround

Older SELinux policy can prevent runc to execute the dmz binary. The issue is fixed in container-selinux v2.224.0. Yet, some older distributions may not have the fix, so runc has a runtime workaround of disabling dmz if it finds that SELinux is in enforced mode and the container SELinux label is set.

Distributions that have a sufficiently new container-selinux can disable the workaround by building runc with the runc_dmz_selinux_nocompat build flag, essentially allowing dmz to be used together with SELinux.