If root, this adds the following label to the libvirt XML which causes libvirt to run the qemu subprocess as root and not to do any SELinux relabelling of disks:
<seclabel type="static" model="dac" relabel="no"> <label>0:0</label> </seclabel> Partial mitigation for problems caused by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890291 --- lib/launch-libvirt.c | 59 ++++++++++------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/launch-libvirt.c b/lib/launch-libvirt.c index 844023b80..0b8ccb03a 100644 --- a/lib/launch-libvirt.c +++ b/lib/launch-libvirt.c @@ -528,53 +528,6 @@ launch_libvirt (guestfs_h *g, void *datav, const char *libvirt_uri) clear_socket_create_context (g); - /* libvirt, if running as root, will run the qemu process as - * qemu.qemu, which means it won't be able to access the socket. - * There are roughly three things that get in the way: - * - * (1) Permissions of the socket. - * - * (2) Permissions of the parent directory(-ies). Remember this if - * $TMPDIR is located in your home directory. - * - * (3) SELinux/sVirt will prevent access. libvirt ought to label - * the socket. - * - * Note that the 'current_proc_is_root' flag here just means that we - * are root. It's also possible for non-root user to try to use the - * system libvirtd by specifying a qemu:///system URI (RHBZ#913774) - * but there's no sane way to test for that. - */ - if (params.current_proc_is_root) { - /* Current process is root, so try to create sockets that are - * owned by root.qemu with mode 0660 and hence accessible to qemu. - */ - struct group *grp; - - if (chmod (data->guestfsd_path, 0660) == -1) { - perrorf (g, "chmod: %s", data->guestfsd_path); - goto cleanup; - } - - if (chmod (data->console_path, 0660) == -1) { - perrorf (g, "chmod: %s", data->console_path); - goto cleanup; - } - - grp = getgrnam ("qemu"); - if (grp != NULL) { - if (chown (data->guestfsd_path, 0, grp->gr_gid) == -1) { - perrorf (g, "chown: %s", data->guestfsd_path); - goto cleanup; - } - if (chown (data->console_path, 0, grp->gr_gid) == -1) { - perrorf (g, "chown: %s", data->console_path); - goto cleanup; - } - } else - debug (g, "cannot find group 'qemu'"); - } - /* Store any secrets in libvirtd, keeping a mapping from the secret * to its UUID. */ @@ -1257,7 +1210,17 @@ construct_libvirt_xml_seclabel (guestfs_h *g, const struct libvirt_xml_params *params, xmlTextWriterPtr xo) { - if (!params->enable_svirt) { + if (params->current_proc_is_root) { + start_element ("seclabel") { + attribute ("type", "static"); + attribute ("model", "dac"); + attribute ("relabel", "no"); + start_element ("label") { + string ("0:0"); + } end_element (); + } end_element (); + } + else if (!params->enable_svirt) { /* This disables SELinux/sVirt confinement. */ start_element ("seclabel") { attribute ("type", "none"); -- 2.16.2 _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs