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Jim Fehlig 2e8ebfe3fa qemu: Set label on vhostuser net device when hotplugging
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>
2021-08-26 16:06:45 -06:00
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==============================
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:

https://libvirt.org


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:

https://libvirt.org/contact.html