[libvirt] [PATCH 2/4] virt-aa-helper: fix libusb access to udev usb data

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Wed Sep 20 14:59:07 UTC 2017


libusb as used by qemu needs to read data from /run/udev/data/ about usb
devices. That is read once on the first initialization of libusb_init by
qemu.

Therefore generating just the device we need would not be sufficient as
another hotplug later can need another device which would fail as the
data is no more re-read at this point.

But we can restrict the paths very much to just the major number of
potential usb devices which will make it match approximately the detail
that e.g. an lsusb -v would reveal - that is much safer than the
"/run/udev/data/* r" blanket many users are using now as a workaround.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
 examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
index dcfb1a5..b341e31 100644
--- a/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
+++ b/examples/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
   # For hostdev access. The actual devices will be added dynamically
   /sys/bus/usb/devices/ r,
   /sys/devices/**/usb[0-9]*/** r,
+  # libusb needs udev data about usb devices (~equal to content of lsusb -v)
+  /run/udev/data/c16[6,7]* r,
+  /run/udev/data/c18[0,8,9]* r,
 
   # WARNING: this gives the guest direct access to host hardware and specific
   # portions of shared memory. This is required for sound using ALSA with kvm,
-- 
2.7.4




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