Bug 1914451 - cluster-storage-operator pod running as root
Summary: cluster-storage-operator pod running as root
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: OpenShift Container Platform
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Storage
Version: 4.6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
: 4.7.0
Assignee: Hemant Kumar
QA Contact: Qin Ping
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-01-08 21:41 UTC by John McMeeking
Modified: 2021-02-24 15:51 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-02-24 15:51:26 UTC
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Github openshift cluster-csi-snapshot-controller-operator pull 74 0 None open Bug 1914451: Don't run the operator as root UID 2021-01-15 17:09:47 UTC
Github openshift cluster-storage-operator pull 123 0 None closed Bug 1914451: Run CSO as non-root user 2021-01-18 01:31:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5633 0 None None None 2021-02-24 15:51:37 UTC

Description John McMeeking 2021-01-08 21:41:47 UTC
Description of problem:

We see these pods running as root in our 4.6 cluster. We didn't see a reason why the operator needs to do that.

- openshift-cluster-storage-operator/cluster-storage-operator

To run in a financial services environment we need to explain why these are running as root or (preferably) change them if root is not required.

Can you provide an explanation or change these as appropriate?


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ oc version
Client Version: 4.5.0-202005291417-9933eb9
Server Version: 4.6.9
Kubernetes Version: v1.19.0+7070803

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. oc exec -n NS POD -- ps -e -o pid,uid,cmd
2.
3.

Actual results:

+ oc exec -n openshift-cluster-storage-operator cluster-storage-operator-54c8c9567c-cl2bf -- ps -e -o pid,uid,cmd
   PID   UID CMD
     1     0 cluster-storage-operator start


Expected results:

UID is not 0


Master Log:

Node Log (of failed PODs):

PV Dump:

PVC Dump:

StorageClass Dump (if StorageClass used by PV/PVC):

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jan Safranek 2021-01-15 13:06:05 UTC
@jmcmeek.com, there's lot of other pods/containers that run as root in OCP, basically everything that runs as cluster-admin. Is cluster-storage-operator special in any way?

Comment 2 Jan Safranek 2021-01-15 17:08:13 UTC
Nevermind, found the other BZs. From some reason, csi-snapshot-controller-operator was missing.

    PID   UID CMD
      1     0 /usr/bin/csi-snapshot-controller-operator start -v 5 --config=/var/run/configmaps/config/operator-config.yaml

Comment 4 Qin Ping 2021-01-18 05:37:09 UTC
Verified with: 4.7.0-0.nightly-2021-01-17-211555

$ oc -n openshift-cluster-storage-operator  exec cluster-storage-operator-6fff87cc8c-rjjdj -- ps -e -o pid,uid,cmd
    PID   UID CMD
      1 10400 cluster-storage-operator start

$ oc -n openshift-cluster-storage-operator  exec csi-snapshot-controller-operator-65db554cff-4jg46 -- ps -e -o pid,uid,cmd
    PID   UID CMD
      1 10400 /usr/bin/csi-snapshot-controller-operator start -v 5 --config=/var/run/configmaps/config/operator-config.yaml

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2021-02-24 15:51:26 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: OpenShift Container Platform 4.7.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5633


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