Understand and harden Firecracker seccomp: default BPF filters vs custom --seccomp-filter
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Know that Firecracker ships a default BPF seccomp filter that allows only the minimum syscalls/params needed; it is loaded per-thread: on the VMM thread before executing guest code, on the API thread before the HTTP server, and on VCPU threads before guest code
Default filters live under resources/seccomp and are also shipped in each release archive; they are normally compiled into the binary at build time
Override for advanced use by compiling a custom JSON filter with seccompiler-bin and passing its path at startup: firecracker --seccomp-filter /path/to/filter.bin
For quick prototyping of new syscalls you can pass --no-seccomp to disable filtering entirely
Re-audit filters whenever you change Firecracker build type, since debug/release builds differ in a few syscalls
Known gotchas
Custom filters OVERRIDE the defaults and are dangerous: misconfiguration can abruptly terminate the process or disable the seccomp boundary entirely
On debug binaries and experimental GNU targets there are NO default seccomp filters installed — these builds are not for production
Debug vs release syscall sets differ (e.g. fcntl(F_GETFD) used by debug assertions), so a filter tuned for one may not fit the other
Verify integrity (checksums) of any downloaded filter file, Firecracker binary, or artifact to mitigate man-in-the-middle
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