[libvirt] [PATCH] virt-aa-helper: locking disk files for qemu 2.10

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Thu Aug 17 14:12:15 UTC 2017


On 08/10/2017 11:19 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> Testing qemu-2.10-rc2 shows issues like:
>   qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/kvmguest- \
>   artful-normal.qcow,format=qcow2,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0:
>   Failed to lock byte 100
> 
> It seems the following qemu commit changed the needs for the backing
> image rules:
> 
> (qemu) commit 244a5668106297378391b768e7288eb157616f64
> Author: Fam Zheng <famz at redhat.com>
>     file-posix: Add image locking to perm operations
> 
> The block appears as:
>  apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_lock" [...]
>  name="/var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/kvmguest-artful-normal.qcow"
>  [...] comm="qemu-system-x86" requested_mask="k" denied_mask="k"
> 
> With that qemu change in place the rules generated for the image
> and backing files need the allowance to also lock (k) the files.
> 
> Disks are added via add_file_path and with this fix rules now get
> that permission, but no other rules are changed, example:
>   -  "/var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/kvmguest-artful-normal-a2.qcow" rw,
>   +  "/var/lib/uvtool/libvirt/images/kvmguest-artful-normal-a2.qcow" rwk
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

ACKed and pushed.

Michal




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