[PATCH] virt-aa-helper: allow common riscv64 loader paths

Michal Prívozník mprivozn at redhat.com
Thu Sep 29 13:33:41 UTC 2022


On 9/28/22 14:45, christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> 
> Riscv64 usually uses u-boot as external -kernel and a loader from
> the open implementation of RISC-V SBI. The paths for those binaries
> as packaged in Debian and Ubuntu are in paths which are usually
> forbidden to be added by the user under /usr/lib...
> 
> People used to start riscv64 guests only manually via qemu cmdline,
> but trying to encapsulate that via libvirt now causes failures when
> starting the guest due to the apparmor isolation not allowing that:
>    virt-aa-helper: error: skipped restricted file
>    virt-aa-helper: error: invalid VM definition
> 
> Explicitly allow the sub-paths used by u-boot-qemu and opensbi
> under /usr/lib/ as readonly rules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 12 +++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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

Michal



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