[libvirt] [PATCH 1/5] write pid file into stateDir

[Jim Meyering]

Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-address.args b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-address.args
> index 3d6c16d..e1c5638 100644
> --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-address.args
> +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvdata/qemuxml2argv-hostdev-usb-address.args
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc -m 214 -smp 1 -nographic -monitor pty -no-acpi -boot c -hda /dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1 -net none -serial none -parallel none -usb -usbdevice host:014.006
> +LC_ALL=C PATH=/bin HOME=/home/test USER=test LOGNAME=test /usr/bin/qemu -S -M pc -m 214 -smp 1 -nographic -monitor pty -pidfile /tmp/QEMUGuest1.pid -no-acpi -boot c -hda /dev/HostVG/QEMUGuest1 -net none -serial none -parallel none -usb -usbdevice host:014.006
> diff --git a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
> index 6e5355a..585eb08 100644
> --- a/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
> +++ b/tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c
> @@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ mymain(int argc, char **argv)
>
>      if ((driver.caps = testQemuCapsInit()) == NULL)
>          return EXIT_FAILURE;
> +    if((driver.stateDir = strdup("/tmp")) == NULL)
> +        return EXIT_FAILURE;
>
>  #define DO_TEST(name, extraFlags)                                       \
>      do {                                                                \

Hi Guido,

Please don't use a world-writable directory like /tmp for this, since
someone running this test on a multi-user system would then be vulnerable
to a symlink attack for any predictably-named file it creates in that
directory.