[libvirt PATCH 7/9] src: add API to determine if current identity is a system identity

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Tue May 4 17:43:48 UTC 2021


This is essentially a way to determine if the current identity
is that of another libvirt daemon.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 src/libvirt_private.syms |  1 +
 src/util/viridentity.c   | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 src/util/viridentity.h   |  1 +
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libvirt_private.syms b/src/libvirt_private.syms
index 90ca52c95c..698ba50d6b 100644
--- a/src/libvirt_private.syms
+++ b/src/libvirt_private.syms
@@ -2409,6 +2409,7 @@ virIdentityGetUNIXGroupID;
 virIdentityGetUNIXUserID;
 virIdentityGetUserName;
 virIdentityGetX509DName;
+virIdentityIsCurrentElevated;
 virIdentityNew;
 virIdentityNewCopy;
 virIdentitySetCurrent;
diff --git a/src/util/viridentity.c b/src/util/viridentity.c
index 9fa6ab0dd0..424de513d9 100644
--- a/src/util/viridentity.c
+++ b/src/util/viridentity.c
@@ -354,6 +354,34 @@ virIdentity *virIdentityGetSystem(void)
 }
 
 
+/**
+ * virIdentityIsCurrentElevated:
+ *
+ * Determine if the current identity has elevated privileges.
+ * This indicates that it was invoked on behalf of the
+ * user by a libvirt daemon.
+ *
+ * Returns: true if elevated
+ */
+int virIdentityIsCurrentElevated(void)
+{
+    g_autoptr(virIdentity) current = virIdentityGetCurrent();
+    const char *currentToken = NULL;
+    int rv;
+
+    if (!current) {
+        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
+                       _("No current identity"));
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    rv = virIdentityGetSystemToken(current, &currentToken);
+    if (rv <= 0)
+        return rv;
+
+    return STREQ_NULLABLE(currentToken, systemToken);
+}
+
 /**
  * virIdentityNew:
  *
diff --git a/src/util/viridentity.h b/src/util/viridentity.h
index 420cd82854..37a0c1ad4c 100644
--- a/src/util/viridentity.h
+++ b/src/util/viridentity.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ virIdentity *virIdentityGetCurrent(void);
 virIdentity *virIdentityGetCurrentElevated(void);
 int virIdentitySetCurrent(virIdentity *ident);
 
+int virIdentityIsCurrentElevated(void);
 virIdentity *virIdentityGetSystem(void);
 
 virIdentity *virIdentityNew(void);
-- 
2.31.1




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