[libvirt] [RFC][PATCH] lxc: drop CAP_SYS_BOOT capability to prevent rebooting from inside containers

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I needed to apply the following two small changes to get it compile.
> 
> On my system (Ubuntu 9.04) I don't have a sys/capability.h header, but
> a linux/capability.h header as part of the linux-libc-dev package.

That is because sys/capability.h is provided by libcap, not libc.
I guess you don't have libcap-dev installed.

$ rpm -qf /usr/include/sys/capability.h
libcap-devel-2.06-4.fc9.i386


> 
> diff --git a/src/lxc_container.c b/src/lxc_container.c
> index 3687750..a2b3051 100644
> --- a/src/lxc_container.c
> +++ b/src/lxc_container.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
>  #include <linux/fs.h>
> 
>  #include <sys/prctl.h>
> -#include <sys/capability.h>
> +#include <linux/capability.h>
> 
>  #include "virterror_internal.h"
>  #include "logging.h"

NACK to this change.

> @@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static int lxcContainerSetupMounts(virDomainDefPtr vmDef,
>          return lxcContainerSetupExtraMounts(vmDef);
>  }
> 
> -static int lxcContainerDropCapabilities( virDomainDefPtr vmDef )
> +static int lxcContainerDropCapabilities( virDomainDefPtr vmDef
> ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED )


I committed this fix a little while ago...

Daniel
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