On 8/20/25 17:49, Hector CAO wrote:
> From: Hector Cao <hector....@canonical.com>
> 
> when a device is dynamically attached to a VM, and it needs a special
> system access for apparmor, libvirt calls virt-aa-helper (with argument -F)
> to append a new rule to the apparmor profile of the VM. virt-aa-helper does
> not check for duplicate and blindly appends the rule to the profile. since
> there is no rule removal when a device is detached, this can make the profile
> grow in size if a big number of attach/detach operations are done and the
> profile might hit the size limit and futur attach operations might dysfunction
> because no rule can be added into the apparmor profile.
> 
> this patch tries to mitigate this issue by doing a duplicate check
> when rules are appended into the profile. this fix does not guarantee
> the absence of duplicates but should be enough to prevent the profile
> to grow significantly in size and reach its size limit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hector CAO <hector....@canonical.com>
> ---
>  src/security/virt-aa-helper.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com>

and merged. Congratulations on your first libvirt contribution!

Michal

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