Re: [PATCH] event: move event filtering to daemon (regression fix)

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On 01/28/2014 03:48 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Commit f9f56340 for CVE-2014-0028 almost had the right idea - we
> need to check the ACL rules to filter which events to send.  But
> it overlooked one thing: the event dispatch queue is running in
> the main loop thread, and therefore does not normally have a
> current virIdentityPtr.  But filter checks can be based on current
> identity, so when libvirtd.conf contains access_drivers=["polkit"],
> we ended up rejecting access for EVERY event due to failure to
> look up the current identity, even if it should have been allowed.

Ping.

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