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Tag: process isolation
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Kristaps Dzonsons - Process
isolation for NetBSD and OpenBSD
Source: DCBSDCon
Added: 24 May 2009
Tags: dcbsdcon, dcbsdcon2009, slides, openbsd, netbsd, process isolation, kristaps dzonsons
PDF (687
Kb, 27 pages)
In NetBSD and OpenBSD, user-land process and process-context isolation is limited to
credential cross-checks, file-system chroot and explicit systrace/kauth applications.
I'll demonstrate a working mechanism of isolated process trees in branched OpenBSD-4.4
and NetBSD-5.0-beta kernels where an isolated process is started by a system call similar
to fork; following that, the child process and its descendants execute in a context
isolated from the caller. This system is the continued work of "mult" -- first prototyped
in a branched NetBSD-3.1 kernel and isolating all system resources -- pared down to a
lightweight, auditable patch of process-only separation for both OpenBSD and NetBSD. I
specifically address solutions to performance issues and mechanism design with an eye
toward more resources being isolated in the future.