[PATCH] apparmor: allow kvm-spice compat wrapper

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Mon Nov 16 14:28:39 UTC 2020


On 11/16/20 1:26 PM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> 'kvm-spice' is a binary name used to call 'kvm' which actually is a wrapper
> around qemu-system-x86_64 enabling kvm acceleration. This isn't in use
> for quite a while anymore, but required to work for compatibility e.g.
> when migrating in old guests.
> 
> For years this was a symlink kvm-spice->kvm and therefore covered
> apparmor-wise by the existing entry:
>     /usr/bin/kvm rmix,
> But due to a recent change [1] in qemu packaging this now is no symlink,
> but a wrapper on its own and therefore needs an own entry that allows it
> to be executed.
> 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/-/commit/9944836d3
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>   src/security/apparmor/libvirt-qemu | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>

Michal




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