[libvirt] [PATCH v2 1/2] nwfilter: Disallow binding creation in session mode

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 11:06:07AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote:
> Similar to nwfilterDefineXML, let's be sure the a filter binding
> creation is not attempted in session mode and generate the proper
> error message.
> 
> Failure to open nwfilter in session mode (nwfilterConnectOpen)
> fails already, but that doesn't stop the free thinker from using
> a different connection in order to attempt to attempt to create
> the binding. Although even doing that would result in a failure:
> 
> $ virsh nwfilter-binding-create QEMUGuest1-binding.xml
> error: Failed to create network filter from QEMUGuest1-binding.xml
> error: internal error: Could not get access to ACL tech driver 'ebiptables'
> 
> $
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> index ac3a964388..1ee5162b9a 100644
> --- a/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> +++ b/src/nwfilter/nwfilter_driver.c
> @@ -745,6 +745,12 @@ nwfilterBindingCreateXML(virConnectPtr conn,
>  
>      virCheckFlags(0, NULL);
>  
> +    if (!driver->privileged) {
> +        virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID, "%s",
> +                       _("Can't define NWFilter bindings in session mode"));
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      def = virNWFilterBindingDefParseString(xml);
>      if (!def)
>          return NULL;

How do we ever get to this point in a session daemon ?

The nwfilterConnectOpen() method should have failed due to 'driver'
being NULL, so the virConnectPtr doesn't exist and so no driver
callback points to nwfilterBindingCreateXML.


Regards,
Daniel
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