2e8ebfe3fa
Attaching a newly created vhostuser port to a VM fails due to an
apparmor denial
internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'chardev-add': Failed
to bind socket to /run/openvswitch/vhu838c4d29-c9: Permission denied
In the case of a net device type VIR_DOMAIN_NET_TYPE_VHOSTUSER, the
underlying chardev is not labeled in qemuDomainAttachNetDevice prior
to calling qemuMonitorAttachCharDev.
A simple fix would be to call qemuSecuritySetChardevLabel using the
embedded virDomainChrSourceDef in the virDomainNetDef vhostuser data,
but this incurs the risk of incorrectly restoring the label. E.g.
consider the DAC driver behavior with a vhostuser net device, which
uses a socket for the chardev backend. The DAC driver uses XATTRS to
store original labelling information, but XATTRS are not compatible
with sockets. Without the original labelling information, the socket
labels will be restored with root ownership, preventing other
less-privileged processes from connecting to the socket.
This patch avoids overloading chardev labelling with vhostuser net
devices by introducing virSecurityManager{Set,Restore}NetdevLabel,
which is currently only implemented for the apparmor driver. The
new APIs are then used to set and restore labels for the vhostuser
net devices.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Libvirt API for virtualization
Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER Hypervisor.
For some of these hypervisors, it provides a stateful management daemon which runs on the virtualization host allowing access to the API both by non-privileged local users and remote users.
Layered packages provide bindings of the libvirt C API into other languages including Python, Perl, PHP, Go, Java, OCaml, as well as mappings into object systems such as GObject, CIM and SNMP.
Further information about the libvirt project can be found on the website:
License
The libvirt C API is distributed under the terms of GNU Lesser
General Public License, version 2.1 (or later). Some parts of the code
that are not part of the C library may have the more restrictive GNU
General Public License, version 2.0 (or later). See the files
COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for full license
terms & conditions.
Installation
Instructions on building and installing libvirt can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/compiling.html
Contributing
The libvirt project welcomes contributions in many ways. For most components the best way to contribute is to send patches to the primary development mailing list. Further guidance on this can be found on the website:
https://libvirt.org/contribute.html
Contact
The libvirt project has two primary mailing lists:
- libvirt-users@redhat.com (for user discussions)
- libvir-list@redhat.com (for development only)
Further details on contacting the project are available on the website: