[libvirt] [PATCH] Disable NWFilter driver completely when unprivileged

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Fri Jul 20 14:49:21 UTC 2012


On 20.07.2012 16:22, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> 
> Running libvirtd unprivileged results in a warning message from
> the NWFilter driver
> 
>   virNWFilterSnoopLeaseFileRefresh:1882 : open("/var/run/libvirt/network/nwfilter.ltmp"): No such file or directory
> 
> Since it requires privileged network access, this driver should
> not even run when unprivileged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c |    3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> index 58d91f9..9034549 100644
> --- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> +++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ static int
>  nwfilterDriverStartup(int privileged) {
>      char *base = NULL;
>  
> +    if (!privileged)
> +        return 0;
> +
>      if (virNWFilterIPAddrMapInit() < 0)
>          return -1;
>      if (virNWFilterLearnInit() < 0)
> 

ACK




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