tag	e4bccdbd64361ac5ea8ba90bb8845add78f957a6
tagger	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>	Mon Dec 06 04:09:13 2021
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v1.0.3 -- "If you were waiting for the opportune moment, that was it."

This is the third stable release in the 1.0 branch, fixing a handful of medium
priority issues related to mounts and cgroups, as well as a potential security
vulnerability.

This release is expected to be the last point release in the 1.0 branch, as we
are planning to release runc 1.1 in the near future.

Security:
 * A potential vulnerability was discovered in runc (related to an internal
   usage of netlink), however upon further investigation we discovered that
   while this bug was exploitable on the master branch of runc, no released
   version of runc could be exploited using this bug. The exploit required
   being able to create a netlink attribute with a length that would overflow a
   uint16 but this was not possible in any released version of runc. For more
   information see GHSA-v95c-p5hm-xq8f and CVE-2021-43784.

   Due to an abundance of caution we decided to do an emergency release with
   this fix, but to reiterate *we do not believe this vulnerability was
   possible to exploit*. Thanks to Felix Wilhelm from Google Project Zero for
   discovering and reporting this vulnerability so quickly.

Bugfixes:
 * Fixed inability to start a container with read-write bind mount of a
   read-only fuse host mount (#3292)
 * Fixed inability to start when read-only /dev in set in spec (#3277)
 * Fixed not removing sub-cgroups upon container delete, when rootless cgroup v2
   is used with older systemd (#3297)
 * Fixed returning error from GetStats when hugetlb is unsupported (which causes
   excessive logging for kubernetes) (#3295)
 * [CI only] Fixed criu 3.16 compatibility issue (#3282)
 * [CI only] Add Go 1.17 to the testing matrix (#3299)

Enhancements:
 * Improved an error message when dbus-user-session is not installed and
   rootless + cgroup2 + systemd are used (#3212)

Thanks to all of the contributors who made this release possible:

 * Akihiro Suda <akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp>
 * Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
 * Kailun Qin <kailun.qin@intel.com>
 * Kang Chen <kongchen28@gmail.com>
 * Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
 * Odin Ugedal <odin@uged.al>
 * Sebastiaan van Stijn <thaJeztah@users.noreply.github.com>

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>

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README.md

runc

Introduction

runc is a CLI tool for spawning and running containers according to the OCI specification.

Releases

runc depends on and tracks the runtime-spec repository. We will try to make sure that runc and the OCI specification major versions stay in lockstep. This means that runc 1.0.0 should implement the 1.0 version of the specification.

You can find official releases of runc on the release page.

Security

The reporting process and disclosure communications are outlined here.

Security Audit

A third party security audit was performed by Cure53, you can see the full report here.

Building

runc currently supports the Linux platform with various architecture support. It must be built with Go version 1.13 or higher.

In order to enable seccomp support you will need to install libseccomp on your platform.

e.g. libseccomp-devel for CentOS, or libseccomp-dev for Ubuntu

# create a 'github.com/opencontainers' in your GOPATH/src
cd github.com/opencontainers
git clone https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
cd runc

make
sudo make install

You can also use go get to install to your GOPATH, assuming that you have a github.com parent folder already created under src:

go get github.com/opencontainers/runc
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/opencontainers/runc
make
sudo make install

runc will be installed to /usr/local/sbin/runc on your system.

Build Tags

runc supports optional build tags for compiling support of various features, with some of them enabled by default (see BUILDTAGS in top-level Makefile).

To change build tags from the default, set the BUILDTAGS variable for make, e.g. to disable seccomp:

make BUILDTAGS=""

Build Tag	Feature	Enabled by default	Dependency
seccomp	Syscall filtering	yes	libseccomp

The following build tags were used earlier, but are now obsoleted:

nokmem (since runc v1.0.0-rc94 kernel memory settings are ignored)
apparmor (since runc v1.0.0-rc93 the feature is always enabled)
selinux (since runc v1.0.0-rc93 the feature is always enabled)

Running the test suite

runc currently supports running its test suite via Docker. To run the suite just type make test.

make test

There are additional make targets for running the tests outside of a container but this is not recommended as the tests are written with the expectation that they can write and remove anywhere.

You can run a specific test case by setting the TESTFLAGS variable.

# make test TESTFLAGS="-run=SomeTestFunction"

You can run a specific integration test by setting the TESTPATH variable.

# make test TESTPATH="/checkpoint.bats"

You can run a specific rootless integration test by setting the ROOTLESS_TESTPATH variable.

# make test ROOTLESS_TESTPATH="/checkpoint.bats"

You can run a test using your container engine's flags by setting CONTAINER_ENGINE_BUILD_FLAGS and CONTAINER_ENGINE_RUN_FLAGS variables.

# make test CONTAINER_ENGINE_BUILD_FLAGS="--build-arg http_proxy=http://yourproxy/" CONTAINER_ENGINE_RUN_FLAGS="-e http_proxy=http://yourproxy/"

Dependencies Management

runc uses Go Modules for dependencies management. Please refer to Go Modules for how to add or update new dependencies. When updating dependencies, be sure that you are running Go 1.14 or newer.

# Update vendored dependencies
make vendor
# Verify all dependencies
make verify-dependencies

Using runc

Please note that runc is a low level tool not designed with an end user in mind. It is mostly employed by other higher level container software.

Therefore, unless there is some specific use case that prevents the use of tools like Docker or Podman, it is not recommended to use runc directly.

If you still want to use runc, here's how.

Creating an OCI Bundle

In order to use runc you must have your container in the format of an OCI bundle. If you have Docker installed you can use its export method to acquire a root filesystem from an existing Docker container.

# create the top most bundle directory
mkdir /mycontainer
cd /mycontainer

# create the rootfs directory
mkdir rootfs

# export busybox via Docker into the rootfs directory
docker export $(docker create busybox) | tar -C rootfs -xvf -

After a root filesystem is populated you just generate a spec in the format of a config.json file inside your bundle. runc provides a spec command to generate a base template spec that you are then able to edit. To find features and documentation for fields in the spec please refer to the specs repository.

runc spec

Running Containers

Assuming you have an OCI bundle from the previous step you can execute the container in two different ways.

The first way is to use the convenience command run that will handle creating, starting, and deleting the container after it exits.

# run as root
cd /mycontainer
runc run mycontainerid

If you used the unmodified runc spec template this should give you a sh session inside the container.

The second way to start a container is using the specs lifecycle operations. This gives you more power over how the container is created and managed while it is running. This will also launch the container in the background so you will have to edit the config.json to remove the terminal setting for the simple examples below (see more details about runc terminal handling). Your process field in the config.json should look like this below with "terminal": false and "args": ["sleep", "5"].

        "process": {
                "terminal": false,
                "user": {
                        "uid": 0,
                        "gid": 0
                },
                "args": [
                        "sleep", "5"
                ],
                "env": [
                        "PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin",
                        "TERM=xterm"
                ],
                "cwd": "/",
                "capabilities": {
                        "bounding": [
                                "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
                                "CAP_KILL",
                                "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
                        ],
                        "effective": [
                                "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
                                "CAP_KILL",
                                "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
                        ],
                        "inheritable": [
                                "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
                                "CAP_KILL",
                                "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
                        ],
                        "permitted": [
                                "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
                                "CAP_KILL",
                                "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
                        ],
                        "ambient": [
                                "CAP_AUDIT_WRITE",
                                "CAP_KILL",
                                "CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE"
                        ]
                },
                "rlimits": [
                        {
                                "type": "RLIMIT_NOFILE",
                                "hard": 1024,
                                "soft": 1024
                        }
                ],
                "noNewPrivileges": true
        },

Now we can go through the lifecycle operations in your shell.

# run as root
cd /mycontainer
runc create mycontainerid

# view the container is created and in the "created" state
runc list

# start the process inside the container
runc start mycontainerid

# after 5 seconds view that the container has exited and is now in the stopped state
runc list

# now delete the container
runc delete mycontainerid

This allows higher level systems to augment the containers creation logic with setup of various settings after the container is created and/or before it is deleted. For example, the container's network stack is commonly set up after create but before start.

Rootless containers

runc has the ability to run containers without root privileges. This is called rootless. You need to pass some parameters to runc in order to run rootless containers. See below and compare with the previous version.

Note: In order to use this feature, “User Namespaces” must be compiled and enabled in your kernel. There are various ways to do this depending on your distribution:

Confirm CONFIG_USER_NS=y is set in your kernel configuration (normally found in /proc/config.gz)
Arch/Debian: echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
RHEL/CentOS 7: echo 28633 > /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces

Run the following commands as an ordinary user:

# Same as the first example
mkdir ~/mycontainer
cd ~/mycontainer
mkdir rootfs
docker export $(docker create busybox) | tar -C rootfs -xvf -

# The --rootless parameter instructs runc spec to generate a configuration for a rootless container, which will allow you to run the container as a non-root user.
runc spec --rootless

# The --root parameter tells runc where to store the container state. It must be writable by the user.
runc --root /tmp/runc run mycontainerid

Supervisors

runc can be used with process supervisors and init systems to ensure that containers are restarted when they exit. An example systemd unit file looks something like this.

[Unit]
Description=Start My Container

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/runc run -d --pid-file /run/mycontainerid.pid mycontainerid
ExecStopPost=/usr/local/sbin/runc delete mycontainerid
WorkingDirectory=/mycontainer
PIDFile=/run/mycontainerid.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

License

The code and docs are released under the Apache 2.0 license.