Re: [PATCH qemu-kvm] Add raw(af_packet) network backend to qemu

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On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:58:48AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 10:37 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> So actually, this is an interesting argument in favor of
>> turning disablenetwork from per-process as it is now
>> to per-file.
>>    
>
> Yup.  I think we really need a file-based restriction mechanism and so  
> far, neither disablenetwork or network namespace seems to do that.
>
> I think you might be able to mitigate this with SELinux since I'm fairly  
> certain it can prevent SCM_RIGHTS but SELinux is not something that can  
> be enforced within a set of applications so we'd be relying on SELinux  
> being enabled (honestly, unlikely) and the policy being correctly  
> configured (unlikely in the general case at least).
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori

I am not convinced SELinux being disabled is a problem we necessarily
need to deal with, and qemu does not verify e.g. that it is not run as
root either. A more serious problem IMO is that SCM_RIGHTS might be
needed for some other functionality.

>>    
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Anthony Liguori
>>>
>>>      
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Anthony Liguori
>>>>>
>>>>>          
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