AdministriviaConfining code with legacy OSesUsing chrootEscaping chrootSystem call interpositionLimitations of syscall interpositionReview: What is an OSWhat ifldots How is a process different from HW?Virtual Machine MonitorOld idea from the 1960sVMM benefitsDifferent thought about OSesOS backwards compatibilityIsolation & Multi-level securityLogical partitioning of serversExample: VMMs for IDSVMM-based IDSCollective Project href {http://suif.stanford.edu/papers/nsdi05.pdf}{[Chandra]}Complete Machine SimulationVirtualizing the CPUVirtualizing trapsVirtualizing memoryShadow page tablesShadow PT issuesTracingTracing vs. hidden faultsI/O device virtualizationCPU virtualization requirementsBinary translationVMware binary translatorControl transferNon-identically translated codeAdaptive binary translationESX mem. mgmt. href {http://www.scs.stanford.edu/10wi-cs140/sched/readings/esx.pdf}{[Waldspurger]}Reclaiming pagesSharing pages across VMsIdle memory taxFinal thoughtsHow to learn more about OSesAdministrivia• Guest lecture Thursday- Amit Singh (Google): Real-world Operating Systems-Please attend lecture if at all possible• Last project due Thursday-No extensions unless all non-SCPD group members at lecture- If staff grants you extension, means only if you attend lecture- We will have a more stringent enforcement mechanism•Final Exam- Thursday March 18, 12:15-3:15pm- Open book, covers all 19 lectures(possibly including topics already on the midterm)• Televised final review session Friday- Bring questions on lecture material1/40Confining code with legacy OSes• Often want to confine code on legacy OSes• Analogy: FirewallsHopelesslyInsecureServerattackerattacker- Your machine runs hopelessly insecure software- Can’t fix it—no source or too complicated- Can reason about network traffic• Similarly block unrusted code within a machine- By limiting what it can interact with2/40Using chroot• chroot (char *dir) “c hanges ro o t directory ”- Kernel stores root directory of each process- File name “/” now refers to dir- Accessing “..” in dir now returns dir• Need root privs to call chroot- But subsequently can drop privileges• Ideally “Chrooted process” wouldn’t affect parts ofthe system outside of dir- Even process still running as root shouldn’t escape chroot•In reality, many way s to cause damage outside dir3/40Escaping chroot• Re-chroot to a lower directory, then chroot ..- Each process has one root directory, so chrooting to a newdirectory can put you above your new root• Create devices that let you access raw disk• Send signals to or ptrace non-chrooted processes• Create setuid program for non-chrooted proc. to run• Bind privileged ports, mess with clock, reboot, etc.• Problem: chroot was not originally intended forsecurity- FreeBSD jail, Linux vserver have tried to address problems4/40System call interposition• Why not use ptrace or other debugging facilities tocontrol untrusted programs?• Almost any “damage” must result from system call- delete files → unlink- overwrite files → open/write- attack over network → socket/bind/connect/send/recv- leak private data → open/read/socket/connect/write . . .• So enforce policy by allowing/disallowing eachsyscall- Theoretically much more fine-grained than chroot- Plus don’t need to be root to do it•Q: Why is this not a panacea?5/40Limitations of syscall interposition• Hard to know exact implications of a system call- Too much context not available outside of kernel(e.g., what does this file descriptor number mean?)- Context-dependent (e.g., /proc/self/cwd)• Indirect paths to resources- File descriptor passing, core dumps, “unhelpful processes”• Race conditions- Remember difficulty of eliminating TOCCTOU bugs?- Now imagine malicious application deliberately doing this- Symlinks, directory renames (so “..” changes), . . .• See[Garfinkel] for a more detailed discussion6/40Review: What is an OS• OS is software between applications and reality- Abstracts hardware and makes portable- Makes finite into (near) infinite- Provides protection7/40What if. . .• The process abstraction looked just like hardware?8/40How is a process different from HW?Process Hardware•CPU – Non-Privilegedregisters and instructions.• Memory – Virtual memory.• Exceptions – signals, errors.• I/O – File System, Directory,Files, raw devices.• CPU – All registers andinstructions.• Memory – Both virtual andphysical memory, memorymanagement, TLB/pagetables, etc.• Exceptions – Trap architecture,interrupts, etc.• I/O – I/O devices accessed us-ing programmed I/O, DMA,interrupts.9/40Virtual Machine Monitor• Thin layer of software that virtualizes the hardware- Exports a virtual machine abstraction that looks like thehardware10/40Old idea from the 1960s• See[Goldberg] from 1974• IBM VM/370 – A VMM for IBM mainframe- Multiplex multiple OS environments on expensive hardware- Desirable when few machine around• Interest died out in the 1980s and 1990s- Hardware got cheap- Compare Windows NT vs. N DOS machines• Interesting again today- Different problems today – software management- VMM attributes still relevant11/40VMM benefits• Software compatibility- Runs pretty much all software- Trick: Make virtual hardware match real hardware• Can get Low overheads/High performance- Near “raw” machine performance- Direct execution of CPU/MMU• Isolation- Seemingly total data isolation between virtual machines- Use hardware protection• Encapsulation- Virtual machines are not tied to physical machines- Checkpoint/Migration12/40Different thought about OSes• Installing software on hardware is broken- Tight coupling of OS and applications to hardware createsmanagement problems• Want to subdivide OS:- Hardware drivers- Hardware management- System support software• Turn OSes into normal software that can be manag e d13/40OS backwards compatibility• Backward compatibility is bane of new OSes- Huge effort require to innovate but not break• Security considerations may make it impossible- Choice: Close security hole and break apps or be insecure• Example: Not all WinNT a pplications run on WinXPor XP on Vista- In spite of a huge compatibility effort- Given the number of applications that ran on WinNT,practically any change would break somethingif (OS == WinNT) . . .• Solution: Use a VM M to run both WinNT and WinXP- Obvious for OS migration as well:
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