Re: [Xen-devel] PATCH: Actually make /local/domain/$DOMID readonly to the guest

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:21:10PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 18/12/2008 15:53, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Explicitly give Dom0 permissions on the /local/domain/$DOMID so it
> > becomes the owner of the path. The guest is then granted read perm
> > on the path.
> 
> Thanks Daniel, that's a nasty one!
> 
> However there are other places in xend that commit the same error, and this
> interface weakness would doubtless bite us again in future. Hence the patch
> I actually committed (c/s 18933) actually takes a different strategy: in the
> bowels of the xend xenstore C package I check to see if the caller is try to
> change permissions of the node owner, and if so I fudge in dom0 as the owner
> instead. A bit grim, but I think probably a safer bet in this instance.

I think that looks correct to me. The easy way to test is to try and
write to '/local/domain/$DOMID/console/tty' from within the guest and
see if it succeeds or not 


Daniel
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