From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 26840437cbd6d3625ea6ab34e17cd34bb810c861 ] 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> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@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", -- 2.7.4