On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM Hector Cao <hector....@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> For executables dynamically linked to libnuma, the runtimer linker
> invokes libnuma functions (num_init) that try to access
> /sys/devices/system/node/ and if the application's apparmor
> profile does not allow this access, this access will be denied
> by apparmor with following error message:
>
> apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" class="file"
> name="/sys/devices/system/node/" comm="qemu-bridge-hel"
> requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=0
>
> Here is the simplified call trace:
>
> 0 ... in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnuma.so.1
> 1 ... in call_init (...) at ./elf/dl-init.c:74
> 2 ... in call_init (...) at ./elf/dl-init.c:120
> 3 _dl_init (...) at ./elf/dl-init.c:121
> 4 ... in _dl_start_user () from /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
>
> This commit adds an abstract profile that applications that are
> linked to libnuma can include in their apparmor profile.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hector Cao <hector....@canonical.com>
> ---
> profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/libnuma | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/libnuma
>
> diff --git a/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/libnuma
> b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/libnuma
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..e06e03299
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/profiles/apparmor.d/abstractions/libnuma
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +# vim:syntax=apparmor
> +# ------------------------------------------------------------------
> +#
> +# Copyright (C) 2025 Canonical Ltd.
> +#
> +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> +# modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
> +# License published by the Free Software Foundation.
> +#
> +# ------------------------------------------------------------------
> +
> + abi <abi/4.0>,
> +
> + # this abstract profile can be included by applications that are
> + # dynamically linked to libnuma
> + # libnuma defines the function num_init() as the .init function
> + # to be called by the runtime linker (ld) when libnuma is loaded
> +
> + @{sys}/devices/system/cpu/node/ r,
> +
> + # Include additions to the abstraction
> + include if exists <abstractions/libnuma.d>
> --
> 2.45.2
>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Lee <ryan....@canonical.com>
