Re: [PATCH for 5.0.0] qemu: Temporary disable owner remembering

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 06:01:24PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 17:57:39 +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Turns out, that there are few bugs that are not that trivial to
> > fix (e.g. around block jobs). Instead of rushing in not
> > thoroughly tested fixes disable the feature temporarily for the
> > release.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  docs/news.xml                      | 13 -------------
> >  src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug         |  1 -
> >  src/qemu/qemu.conf                 |  5 -----
> >  src/qemu/qemu_conf.c               |  4 ----
> >  src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug.in |  1 -
> >  5 files changed, 24 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> > index 90b7e8891e..c7a4dde463 100644
> > --- a/docs/news.xml
> > +++ b/docs/news.xml
> > @@ -66,19 +66,6 @@
> >            qemu: Add support for ARMv6l guests
> >          </summary>
> >        </change>
> > -      <change>
> > -        <summary>
> > -          Remember original owners and SELinux labels of files
> > -        </summary>
> > -        <description>
> > -          When a domain is starting up libvirt changes DAC and
> > -          SELinux labels so that domain can access it. However,
> > -          it never remembered the original labels and therefore
> > -          the file was returned back to <code>root:root</code>.
> > -          With this release, the original labels are remembered
> > -          and restored properly.
> > -        </description>
> > -      </change>
> >        <change>
> >          <summary>
> >            Support more NVDIMM configuration options
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
> > index 8a5b39e568..ddc4bbfd1d 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
> > +++ b/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
> > @@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ module Libvirtd_qemu =
> >                   | str_entry "user"
> >                   | str_entry "group"
> >                   | bool_entry "dynamic_ownership"
> > -                 | bool_entry "remember_owner"
> >                   | str_array_entry "cgroup_controllers"
> >                   | str_array_entry "cgroup_device_acl"
> >                   | int_entry "seccomp_sandbox"
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu.conf b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
> > index 29093f6329..28e51b2c59 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu.conf
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu.conf
> > @@ -450,11 +450,6 @@
> >  # Set to 0 to disable file ownership changes.
> >  #dynamic_ownership = 1
> >  
> > -# Whether libvirt should remember and restore the original
> > -# ownership over files it is relabeling. Defaults to 1, set
> > -# to 0 to disable the feature.
> > -#remember_owner = 1
> > -
> >  # What cgroup controllers to make use of with QEMU guests
> >  #
> >  #  - 'cpu' - use for scheduler tunables
> > diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> > index 20952e9607..b03e38b831 100644
> > --- a/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_conf.c
> > @@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ virQEMUDriverConfigPtr virQEMUDriverConfigNew(bool privileged)
> >          cfg->group = (gid_t)-1;
> >      }
> >      cfg->dynamicOwnership = privileged;
> > -    cfg->rememberOwner = privileged;
> 
> Can't we just set this to false and add a note to the qemu.conf file
> that it's currently disabled as being unstable so that you don't have to
> delete the qemu_conf.c changes?

If we do that, then people can turn it on. Then we have to ensure we can
handle upgrades correctly.  If it is buggy, it is safer to never let users
turn it on so we don't get ourselves into a painful place with upgrades
from the buggy version

Regards,
Daniel
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