[PATCH v2 4/5] apparmor: qemu access to @{PROC}/*/auxv for hw_cap

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Tue Aug 4 15:32:13 UTC 2020


From: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

On some architectures (ppc, s390x, sparc, arm) qemu will read auxv
to detect hardware capabilities via qemu_getauxval.

Allow that access read-only for the entry owned by the current
qemu process.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Jamie Strandboge <jamie at canonical.com>
---
 src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
index b132cf0226..ae3db68f82 100644
--- a/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
+++ b/src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
   owner @{PROC}/@{pid}/task/@{tid}/comm rw,
   @{PROC}/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap r,
   @{PROC}/sys/vm/overcommit_memory r,
+  # detect hardware capabilities via qemu_getauxval
+  owner @{PROC}/*/auxv r,
 
   # For hostdev access. The actual devices will be added dynamically
   /sys/bus/usb/devices/ r,
-- 
2.27.0




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