KVP daemon does fork()/exec() (with popen()) so we need to close our fds
to avoid sharing them with child processes. The immediate implication of
not doing so I see is SELinux complaining about 'ip' trying to access
'/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp'.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 0d9f48e..bc7adb8 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
openlog("KVP", 0, LOG_USER);
syslog(LOG_INFO, "KVP starting; pid is:%d", getpid());
- kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR);
+ kvp_fd = open("/dev/vmbus/hv_kvp", O_RDWR | O_CLOEXEC);
if (kvp_fd < 0) {
syslog(LOG_ERR, "open /dev/vmbus/hv_kvp failed; error: %d %s",
--
2.5.5
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