Re: [RFC/GIT PULL] Linux KVM tool for v3.2

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On 11/10/2011 11:04 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> >>> Start with a clean read/write raw image.  Probing declares it raw.
> >>> Guest writes QCOW signature to it, with a backing file of its choice.
> >>>
> >>> Restart with the same image.  Probing declares it QCOW2.  Guest can read
> >>> the backing file.  Oops.
> >>
> >> Thats an excellent scenario why you'd want to have 'Secure KVM' with
> >> seccomp filters :)
> >
> > Yup.
> >
> > For what it's worth, sVirt (use SELinux to secure virtualization)
> > mitigates the problem.  Doesn't mean we couldn't use "Secure KVM".
>
> How does it do it do that? You have a hypervisor trying to read
> arbitrary files on the host FS, no?

Trying and failing.  sVirt will deny access to all files except those
explicitly allowed by libvirt.

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