[libvirt] [PATCH 0/4] manage the shmem device source

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 04:09:01PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi Luyao
> 
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Luyao Huang <lhuang at redhat.com> wrote:
> > But the problem is we cannot change the running shm-server process label,
> > We need wait ivshmem-server to be a part of qemu progrem, then setup the
> > ivshmem-server by libvirt. we cannot do nothing for the ivshmem-server right now.
> 
> ivshmem-server is going to be a separate server process, not part of
> qemu process.
> 
> Is it enough if ivshmem-server is started by libvirt to solve the selinux issue?
> 
> What's missing to get started to support it with libvirt?

The complexity arises when multiple QEMUs want to connect to the same
memory region. Each QEMU has its own unique SELinux label (eg something
like svirt_t:s0:c352,c850 with random category values) So there is
no single SElinux label you can give to an ivshmem server process to
let it "just work" with multiple QEMUs, unless we chose to effectively
just let any QEMU connect whatsoever by running ivmshmem-server under
svirt_t:s0:c0.c1023 which removes all isolation between the guests.
This is label we use for disk images which must be shared between
QEMUs currently, but long term we're going to need to come up with
a way to allow concurrent access but kep separation. At that point
we'll likely need to implement the ivmshmem server as part of the
libvirt project itself, so we can deal with SELinux.

Until that point though, I think the simplest thing todo is to get
an addition to the SELinux policy. We want to have

  - ivshmem-server running under a 'qemu_shmemd_t' type
  - ivshmem-server UNIX domain socket labeled 'qemu_shmemd_sock_t'
  - svirt_t permitted to connect to any qemu_shmemd_sock_t

this doesn't require any code in libvirt or QEMU - should be possible
todo it entirely in selinux policy rules.

Regards,
Daniel
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