[libvirt] libseccomp and KVM

Stefan Berger stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Dec 12 16:06:44 UTC 2014


On 12/12/2014 10:32 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 04:24:55PM +0100, Raymond Durand wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> How are the rules managed so as to fit the VM system calls?
>> Is tuning possible? recommended?
> QEMU has a built-in policy that adds rules for every conceivable
> function that QEMU might need to execute. Given that is quite
> broad, the security benefit from seccomp enablement is quit low
> IMHO

Base code and (active) devices would each have to report what syscalls 
they need so this list could be reduced to the minimum ...

     Stefan

> Regards,
> Daniel




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