Re: [PATCH] util: fix clear_emulator_capabilities=0

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 04:09:44PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/13/2013 01:37 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
> > My commit 7a2e845a865dc7fa82d2393ea2a770cfc8cf00b4 (and its
> > prerequisites) managed to effectively ignore the
> > clear_emulator_capabilities setting in qemu.conf (visible in the code
> > as the VIR_EXEC_CLEAR_CAPS flag when qemu is being exec'ed), with the
> > result that the capabilities are always cleared regardless of the
> > qemu.conf setting. This patch fixes it by passing the flag through to
> > virSetUIDGIDWithCaps(), which uses it to decide whether or not to
> > clear existing capabilities before adding in those that were
> > requested.
> > 
> > Note that the existing capabilities are *always* cleared if the new
> > process is going to run as non-root, since the whole point of running
> > non-root is to have the capabilities removed (it's still possible to
> > add back individual capabilities as needed though).
> > ---
> > This will need to be backported to v1.0.3-maint.
> 
> Yeah, now that Fedora 19 has branched and settled on 1.0.3 as its
> starting point, it looks like v1.0.3-maint will be getting lots of fixes :)

Nah, we can continue to rebase Fedora 19 until either Beta release
or the Virtualization test day. So we have at least one more release
rebase possible.


Daniel
-- 
|: http://berrange.com      -o-    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :|
|: http://libvirt.org              -o-             http://virt-manager.org :|
|: http://autobuild.org       -o-         http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
|: http://entangle-photo.org       -o-       http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|

--
libvir-list mailing list
libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list


[Index of Archives]     [Virt Tools]     [Libvirt Users]     [Lib OS Info]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Big List of Linux Books]     [Yosemite News]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]