Without this, session libvirt won't start if it fails to create the directory. --- So far the directory is only used by SRIOV, which I believe does not work for unprivileged libvirt, but I found always creating the state dir nicer than possibly crashing on NULL derefernce. src/util/virhostdev.c | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virhostdev.c b/src/util/virhostdev.c index d80dbf7..7936289 100644 --- a/src/util/virhostdev.c +++ b/src/util/virhostdev.c @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ static virHostdevManagerPtr virHostdevManagerNew(void) { virHostdevManagerPtr hostdevMgr; + bool privileged = geteuid() == 0; if (!(hostdevMgr = virObjectNew(virHostdevManagerClass))) return NULL; @@ -105,14 +106,39 @@ virHostdevManagerNew(void) if ((hostdevMgr->activeSCSIHostdevs = virSCSIDeviceListNew()) == NULL) goto error; - if (VIR_STRDUP(hostdevMgr->stateDir, HOSTDEV_STATE_DIR) < 0) - goto error; + if (privileged) { + if (VIR_STRDUP(hostdevMgr->stateDir, HOSTDEV_STATE_DIR) < 0) + goto error; - if (virFileMakePath(hostdevMgr->stateDir) < 0) { - virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, - _("Failed to create state dir '%s'"), - hostdevMgr->stateDir); - goto error; + if (virFileMakePath(hostdevMgr->stateDir) < 0) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("Failed to create state dir '%s'"), + hostdevMgr->stateDir); + goto error; + } + } else { + char *rundir = NULL; + mode_t old_umask; + + if (!(rundir = virGetUserRuntimeDirectory())) + goto error; + + if (virAsprintf(&hostdevMgr->stateDir, "%s/hostdevmgr", rundir) < 0) { + VIR_FREE(rundir); + goto error; + } + VIR_FREE(rundir); + + old_umask = umask(077); + + if (virFileMakePath(hostdevMgr->stateDir) < 0) { + umask(old_umask); + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, + _("Failed to create state dir '%s'"), + hostdevMgr->stateDir); + goto error; + } + umask(old_umask); } return hostdevMgr; -- 1.8.3.2 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list