Attest the pod a unix peer runs in

SO_PEERCRED names the process; the kubelet's cgroup names the pod it
was placed in. A server on a socket shared across pods needs the second
to scope what the first may read, and neither is a value the caller
states.
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//go:build linux
package zip
import (
"os"
"regexp"
"strconv"
"strings"
)
// podRE matches the pod segment the kubelet writes into a container's cgroup
// path under either cgroup driver: `kubepods-burstable-pod<uid>.slice` for
// systemd, where the uid's dashes become underscores, and
// `/kubepods/burstable/pod<uid>` for cgroupfs.
var podRE = regexp.MustCompile(`pod([0-9a-f]{8})[-_]([0-9a-f]{4})[-_]([0-9a-f]{4})[-_]([0-9a-f]{4})[-_]([0-9a-f]{12})`)
// PodUID returns the UID of the Kubernetes pod the peer process runs in, read
// from the cgroup the kubelet placed it in, or "" for a process outside any
// pod. The kernel wrote the cgroup and the kubelet named it, so like the peer
// itself it is a fact about the caller and not a value the caller states.
func (p *Peer) PodUID() string {
if p == nil || p.PID <= 0 {
return ""
}
b, err := os.ReadFile("/proc/" + strconv.Itoa(p.PID) + "/cgroup")
if err != nil {
return ""
}
return podUID(string(b))
}
func podUID(cgroup string) string {
m := podRE.FindStringSubmatch(cgroup)
if m == nil {
return ""
}
return strings.Join(m[1:], "-")
}
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//go:build linux
package zip
import (
"os"
"testing"
)
func TestPodUIDReadsTheKubeletsCgroupUnderEitherDriver(t *testing.T) {
const uid = "e03401ab-1ff2-44e3-8260-3d175888e4a7"
cases := map[string]string{
"systemd besteffort": "0::/kubepods.slice/kubepods-besteffort.slice/kubepods-besteffort-pode03401ab_1ff2_44e3_8260_3d175888e4a7.slice/cri-containerd-2acff90d.scope\n",
"systemd burstable": "0::/kubepods.slice/kubepods-burstable.slice/kubepods-burstable-pode03401ab_1ff2_44e3_8260_3d175888e4a7.slice/cri-containerd-2acff90d.scope\n",
"systemd guaranteed": "0::/kubepods.slice/kubepods-pode03401ab_1ff2_44e3_8260_3d175888e4a7.slice/cri-containerd-2acff90d.scope\n",
"cgroupfs": "0::/kubepods/burstable/pode03401ab-1ff2-44e3-8260-3d175888e4a7/2acff90d\n",
"cgroup v1": "12:pids:/kubepods/besteffort/pode03401ab-1ff2-44e3-8260-3d175888e4a7/2acff90d\n11:memory:/kubepods/besteffort/pode03401ab-1ff2-44e3-8260-3d175888e4a7/2acff90d\n",
}
for name, cg := range cases {
if got := podUID(cg); got != uid {
t.Errorf("%s: got %q, want %q", name, got, uid)
}
}
for name, cg := range map[string]string{
"host process": "0::/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-3.scope\n",
"docker, no pod": "0::/system.slice/docker-2acff90d.scope\n",
"uid too short": "0::/kubepods.slice/kubepods-pode03401ab_1ff2.slice\n",
"empty": "",
} {
if got := podUID(cg); got != "" {
t.Errorf("%s: got %q, want no pod", name, got)
}
}
}
// A peer outside Kubernetes is not a pod, and a peer the kernel never attested
// is not one either.
func TestPodUIDIsEmptyOffCluster(t *testing.T) {
if os.Getenv("KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST") != "" {
t.Skip("running inside a pod")
}
if got := (&Peer{PID: os.Getpid()}).PodUID(); got != "" {
t.Fatalf("this process reads as pod %q", got)
}
var none *Peer
if got := none.PodUID(); got != "" {
t.Fatalf("nil peer reads as pod %q", got)
}
}
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//go:build !linux
package zip
// PodUID is "" where there is no cgroup to read.
func (p *Peer) PodUID() string { return "" }