[libvirt] [PATCH 12/13] Protection against doing bad stuff to the root group

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Jul 23 15:21:17 UTC 2013


From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>

Add protection such that the virCgroupRemove and
virCgroupKill* do not do anything to the root cgroup.

Killing all PIDs in the root cgroup does not end well.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/vircgroup.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/vircgroup.c b/src/util/vircgroup.c
index 6f9d25a..2141154 100644
--- a/src/util/vircgroup.c
+++ b/src/util/vircgroup.c
@@ -546,8 +546,13 @@ int virCgroupPathOfController(virCgroupPtr group,
     if (controller == -1) {
         size_t i;
         for (i = 0; i < VIR_CGROUP_CONTROLLER_LAST; i++) {
+            /* Reject any controller with a placement
+             * of '/' to avoid doing bad stuff to the root
+             * cgroup
+             */
             if (group->controllers[i].mountPoint &&
-                group->controllers[i].placement) {
+                group->controllers[i].placement &&
+                STRNEQ(group->controllers[i].placement, "/")) {
                 controller = i;
                 break;
             }
@@ -1002,6 +1007,11 @@ int virCgroupRemove(virCgroupPtr group)
         if (!group->controllers[i].mountPoint)
             continue;
 
+        /* Don't delete the root group, if we accidentally
+           ended up in it for some reason */
+        if (STREQ(group->controllers[i].placement, "/"))
+            continue;
+
         if (virCgroupPathOfController(group,
                                       i,
                                       NULL,
-- 
1.8.1.4




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