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firecracker: adopt firecracker-jailer for VM launch (Phase B)

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Each VM's firecracker now runs inside a per-VM chroot dropped to the
registered owner UID via firecracker-jailer. Closes the broad ambient-
sudo escalation surface that survived Phase A: the helper still needs
caps for tap/bridge/dm/loop/iptables, but the VMM itself no longer
runs as root in the host root filesystem.

The host helper stages each chroot up front: hard-links the kernel
and (optional) initrd, mknods block-device drives + /dev/vhost-vsock,
copies in the firecracker binary (jailer opens it O_RDWR so a ro bind
fails with EROFS), and bind-mounts /usr/lib + /lib trees read-only so
the dynamic linker can resolve. Self-binds the chroot first so the
findmnt-guarded cleanup can recurse safely.

AF_UNIX sun_path is 108 bytes; the chroot path easily blows past that.
Daemon-side launch pre-symlinks the short request socket path to the
long chroot socket before Machine.Start so the SDK's poll/connect
sees the short path while the kernel resolves to the chroot socket.
--new-pid-ns is intentionally disabled — jailer's PID-namespace fork
makes the SDK see the parent exit and tear the API socket down too
early.

CapabilityBoundingSet for the helper expands to add CAP_FOWNER,
CAP_KILL, CAP_MKNOD, CAP_SETGID, CAP_SETUID, CAP_SYS_CHROOT alongside
the existing CAP_CHOWN/CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE/CAP_NET_ADMIN/CAP_NET_RAW/
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thales Maciel 2026-04-28 14:38:07 -03:00
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internal/system/system.go
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@ -172,7 +172,19 @@ func ProcessRunning(pid int, apiSock string) bool {
return false
}
cmdline := strings.ReplaceAll(string(data), "\x00", " ")
return strings.Contains(cmdline, "firecracker") && strings.Contains(cmdline, apiSock)
if !strings.Contains(cmdline, "firecracker") {
return false
}
if strings.Contains(cmdline, apiSock) {
return true
}
// Jailer mode: apiSock is a symlink; firecracker's cmdline has the
// chroot-internal path (e.g. "/firecracker.socket"), not the host path.
// Fall back to matching the symlink target's base name.
if target, err := os.Readlink(apiSock); err == nil {
return strings.Contains(cmdline, filepath.Base(target))
}
return false
}
type ProcessStats struct {