[PATCH] Allow VM to read sysfs PCI config, revision files

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu May 19 06:09:20 UTC 2022


On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:27 PM Max Goodhart <c at chromakode.com> wrote:
>
> Oops, I didn't intend for the commit author email to be gitlab at chromakode.com here. Would you please use c at chromakode.com as the author of the patch?

Yeah I can amend that (and we see you control that email address).

Also since I know this is coming from a particular LP bug I'd also add
the following to have the full trace-back from the commit message to
more context

Fixes: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1972075

Can I apply it that way or are there any objections?

> On Wed, May 11, 2022, 6:09 PM Max Goodhart <c at chromakode.com> wrote:
>>
>> From: Max Goodhart <gitlab at chromakode.com>
>>
>> This fixes a blank screen when viewing a VM with virtio graphics and
>> gl-accelerated Spice display on Ubuntu 22.04 / libvirt 8.0.0 / qemu 6.2.
>>
>> Without these AppArmor permissions, the libvirt error log contains
>> repetitions of:
>>
>> qemu_spice_gl_scanout_texture: failed to get fd for texture
>>
>> This appears to be similar to this GNOME Boxes issue:
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes/-/issues/586
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Max Goodhart <c at chromakode.com>
>> ---
>>  src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c b/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c
>> index 1f1cce8b3d..b314d2a059 100644
>> --- a/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c
>> +++ b/src/security/virt-aa-helper.c
>> @@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ get_files(vahControl * ctl)
>>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  \"/dev/nvidiactl\" rw,\n");
>>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  # Probe DRI device attributes\n");
>>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  \"/dev/dri/\" r,\n");
>> -        virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  \"/sys/devices/**/{uevent,vendor,device,subsystem_vendor,subsystem_device}\" r,\n");
>> +        virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  \"/sys/devices/**/{uevent,vendor,device,subsystem_vendor,subsystem_device,config,revision}\" r,\n");
>>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  # dri libs will trigger that, but t is not requited and DAC would deny it anyway\n");
>>          virBufferAddLit(&buf, "  deny \"/var/lib/libvirt/.cache/\" w,\n");
>>      }
>> --
>> 2.34.1
>>


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Christian Ehrhardt
Staff Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd



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