On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:44:15AM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 03/13/2009 06:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:39:13PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >>Libvirt is executing qemu requiring it to execute pulseaudio which would
> >>require the folowing permissions,
> >>
> >>#============= svirt_t ==============
> >>allow svirt_t admin_home_t:dir setattr;
> >>allow svirt_t admin_home_t:file { read write };
> >>allow svirt_t pulseaudio_port_t:tcp_socket name_connect;
> >>allow svirt_t svirt_tmpfs_t:file read;
> >>allow svirt_t user_tmpfs_t:file read;
> >>
> >>Since qemu(svirt_t) is not allowed these permissions, pulseaudio crashes
> >>and qemu dies.
> >
> >I don't see it crashing - when I run with a guest with a sound device
> >attached, I see the AVC denials, and QEMU just carries on without a
> >active sound backend AFAICT.
> >
> >>I believe you need to run without sound if you are running as root.
> >
> >We can't disable sound unconditonally for root, because not everyone
> >will be using SELinux so its still valid to allow sound cards. I think
> >the focus has to be on stopping QEMU from crashing. It might actually
> >be an SDL bug, rather than a QEMU bug, because I believe its SDL that
> >is responsible for opening the sound devices.
> >
> >Daniel
> How about if we check if you are running with svirt then don't execute
> the code. Since I do not want to deal with these avc messages. Either
> they will happen always and I have to dontaudit them in which case a
> compromised svirt attacking the /root directory would be dontaudited, or
> people are going to see avc's all the time.
For that scenario I think it'd be better to make virt-manager prevent
addition of sound hardware, since its in a position to give feedback
to the user telling them why sound devices aren't allowed.
Daniel
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