[libvirt] [PATCH] [RFC] virSetUIDGID: Don't leak supplementary groups

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:48:42PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> The LXC driver uses virSetUIDGID() to become UID/GID 0.
> It passes an empty groups list to virSetUIDGID()
> to get rid of all supplementary groups from the host side.
> But virSetUIDGID() calls setgroups() only if the supplied list
> is larger than 0.
> This leads to a container root with unrelated supplementary groups.
> In most cases this issue is unoticed as libvirtd runs as UID/GID 0
> without any supplementary groups.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard at nod.at>
> ---
> I've marked that patch as RFC as I'm not sure if all users of virSetUIDGID()
> expect this behavior too.

ACK & pushed - I concur with Martin that this is good practice.


Regards,
Daniel
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