On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Paul Durrant wrote: > On 21/11/2023 22:10, Volodymyr Babchuk wrote: > > Add option to preserve owner when creating an entry in Xen Store. This > > may be needed in cases when Qemu is working as device model in a > > *may* be needed? > > I don't undertstand why this patch is necessary and the commit comment isn't > really helping me. > > > domain that is Domain-0, e.g. in driver domain.
I think Volodymyr meant: domain that is *not* Domain-0 So I am guessing this patch is needed otherwise QEMU will run into permissions errors doing xenstore operations > > "owner" parameter for qemu_xen_xs_create() function can have special > > value XS_PRESERVE_OWNER, which will make specific implementation to > > get original owner of an entry and pass it back to > > set_permissions() call. > > > > Please note, that XenStore inherits permissions, so even if entry is > > newly created by, it already has the owner set to match owner of entry > > at previous level. > > > > Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <volodymyr_babc...@epam.com> >
