[libvirt] libseccomp and KVM

Raymond Durand secalf at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 17:13:15 UTC 2014


Thanks.

2014-12-12 17:06 GMT+01:00 Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
>
> 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 ...
>

"Could be reduced": how? do you have in mind by selecting the appropriate
active devices at the initialization time?


>
>     Stefan
>
>  Regards,
>> Daniel
>>
>
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Regards,
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