Omer Katz <o...@kazuar-tech.com> writes: > What would be a simpler way to do this so that the guest machine would > still be able to recognize the USB drive? > Right now we're triggering a script whenever udev recognizes that a USB > drive is plugged in. > The script copies the allowed files to a certain folder. The guest has a > cron job that periodically triggers scp from that folder to the guest. > That's a very complicated flow and I just described only the flow which > files are imported. I even omitted some of the moving parts since they are > irrelevant. > Long story short our architecture is very complicated because of this > issue.
If you are using a physical USB drive, where do you envision the emulated mtp share fits ? One way would be that your udev scripts only copies files that can be read to the mtp share. Similarly, it only copies back written files that accept a certain criteria from the share. Ofcourse, you can try out adding your filter hooks to dev-mtp.c as well if you think that seems more suited to your use case. I was just wondering whether reviewers will point it out as too specific. In the worst case, it will be a in-house change that you will have to maintain yourself. Bandan > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 7:17 PM Bandan Das <b...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Omer Katz <o...@kazuar-tech.com> writes: >> >> > We're connecting USB drives that we want the guests to copy files from. >> > The user should only be allowed to copy certain files into the system. >> > The same thing goes for copying files to the USB drive. We only allow >> > certain files to be exported from the guest. >> >> If I understand your problem correctly, this should be doable by plugging >> in >> your logic into usb_mtp_write_data for the write side and >> usb_mtp_handle_data >> for the read side. The write probably doesn't need a lot, you trigger an >> error >> response the moment your data has something you don't want and discard the >> new file. >> For the read, though, you probably have to read the whole file first, >> which is not what the current code is doing (I think). >> >> Apart from that dev-mtp.c is implementing a MTP server based on the MTP >> spec and adding >> something like this would be confusing, I also feel that this is too >> specific a usecase >> and as Daniel said, there are perhaps simpler ways of doing it. >> >> Bandan >> >> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 12:57 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 03:10:32PM +0000, Omer Katz wrote: >> >> > Hi everyone, >> >> > >> >> > We have a use case that requires us to only allow certain files to >> pass >> >> > through to the guest machine from USB storage devices. >> >> > >> >> > I was told on IRC that such a feature does not exist but the easiest >> way >> >> to >> >> > achieve our goal is to contribute a patch the the MTP device driver >> since >> >> > other drivers operate on a filesystem level instead of a file level >> which >> >> > is what we need. >> >> >> >> IMHO the easiest way to stop the guest accessing files is to simply not >> >> put them in the directory that you are exporting the guest in the first >> >> place. If you have a directory that has some files you don't want >> accessed >> >> and can't remove them, then perhaps create a second directory and use >> >> symlinks or hardlinks to pull in files from the original directory. >> >> >> >> > The plan is to pass the contents of each file to a program through >> stdin >> >> > and decide based on the exit code if the file should be allowed to >> pass >> >> > through to the guest or not. >> >> >> >> I can't say I like this idea. It is a really very inefficient and heavy >> >> solution. >> >> >> >> > Since this is the first time I'm contributing to QEMU I'd like some >> >> > guidance to where the filtering code should be. >> >> > https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/master/hw/usb/dev-mtp.c doesn't >> look >> >> that >> >> > complicated but I still need to understand it better to continue. >> >> > Furthermore, I need to know where to add such a command line option to >> >> > point QEMU to the filtering program. >> >> > >> >> > Would such a patch be accepted if all the requirements above are met? >> >> >> >> Can you explain the usage scenario you have in more details, rather than >> >> just the high level abstract. >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Daniel >> >> -- >> >> |: https://berrange.com -o- >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| >> >> |: https://libvirt.org -o- >> >> https://fstop138.berrange.com :| >> >> |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- >> >> https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| >> >> >>