freebsd-dev/contrib/capsicum-test/README.md
Enji Cooper 8ac5aef8f3 Integrate capsicum-test into the FreeBSD test suite
This change takes capsicum-test from upstream and applies some local changes to make the
tests work on FreeBSD when executed via Kyua.

The local modifications are as follows:
1. Make `OpenatTest.WithFlag` pass with the new dot-dot lookup behavior in FreeBSD 12.x+.
2. capsicum-test references a set of helper binaries: `mini-me`, `mini-me.noexec`, and
   `mini-me.setuid`, as part of the execve/fexecve tests, via execve, fexecve, and open.
   It achieves this upstream by assuming `mini-me*` is in the current directory, however,
   in order for Kyua to execute `capsicum-test`, it needs to provide a full path to
   `mini-me*`. In order to achieve this, I made `capsicum-test` cache the executable's
   path from argv[0] in main(..) and use the cached value to compute the path to
   `mini-me*` as part of the execve/fexecve testcases.
3. The capsicum-test test suite assumes that it's always being run on CAPABILITIES enabled
   kernels. However, there's a chance that the test will be run on a host without a
   CAPABILITIES enabled kernel, so we must check for the support before running the tests.
   The way to achieve this is to add the relevant `feature_present("security_capabilities")`
   check to SetupEnvironment::SetUp() and skip the tests when the support is not available.
   While here, add a check for `kern.trap_enotcap` being enabled. As noted by markj@ in
   https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/issues/23, this sysctl being enabled can trigger
   non-deterministic failures. Therefore, the tests should be skipped if this sysctl is
   enabled.

All local changes have been submitted to the capsicum-test project
(https://github.com/google/capsicum-test) and are in various stages of review.
Please see the following pull requests for more details:
1. https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/pull/35
2. https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/pull/41
3. https://github.com/google/capsicum-test/pull/42

Reviewed by:	asomers
Discussed with:	emaste, markj
Approved by:	emaste (mentor)
MFC after:	2 months
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D19758
2019-04-01 21:24:50 +00:00

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Capsicum User Space Tests

This directory holds unit tests for Capsicum object-capabilities. The tests exercise the syscall interface to a Capsicum-enabled operating system, currently either FreeBSD >=10.x or a modified Linux kernel (the capsicum-linux project).

The tests are written in C++98, and use the Google Test framework, with some additions to fork off particular tests (because a process that enters capability mode cannot leave it again).

Provenance

The original basis for these tests was:

  • unit tests written by Robert Watson and Jonathan Anderson for the original FreeBSD 9.x Capsicum implementation
  • unit tests written by Meredydd Luff for the original Capsicum-Linux port.

These tests were coalesced and moved into an independent repository to enable comparative testing across multiple OSes, and then substantially extended.

OS Configuration

Linux

The following kernel configuration options are needed to run the tests:

  • CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPSICUM: enable the Capsicum framework
  • CONFIG_PROCDESC: enable Capsicum process-descriptor functionality
  • CONFIG_DEBUG_FS: enable debug filesystem
  • CONFIG_IP_SCTP: enable SCTP support

FreeBSD (>= 10.x)

The following kernel configuration options are needed so that all tests can run:

  • options P1003_1B_MQUEUE: Enable POSIX message queues (or kldload mqueuefs)

Other Dependencies

Linux

The following additional development packages are needed to build the full test suite on Linux.

  • libcaprights: See below
  • libcap-dev: Provides headers for POSIX.1e capabilities.
  • libsctp1: Provides SCTP library functions.
  • libsctp-dev: Provides headers for SCTP library functions.

Linux libcaprights

The Capsicum userspace library is held in the libcaprights/ subdirectory. Ideally, this library should be built (with ./configure; make or dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us) and installed (with make install or dpkg -i libcaprights*.deb) so that the tests will use behave like a normal Capsicum-aware application.

However, if no installed copy of the library is found, the GNUmakefile will attempt to use the local libcaprights/*.c source; this requires ./configure to have been performed in the libcaprights subdirectory. The local code is also used for cross-compiled builds of the test suite (e.g. make ARCH=32 or make ARCH=x32).