From: Yosuke Iwamatsu <y-iwamatsu@ab.jp.nec.com>
To: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: [PATCH] ioemu: Get guest uuid from xenstore
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:12:33 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49753311.8070903@ab.jp.nec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C59A73FE.2114F%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 19/01/2009 18:02, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
>
>> I don't think this patch is safe. /local/domain/<domid>/vm is
>> owned by (and thus writeable by) the domain in question. We need a
>> trustworthy copy of this information.
>
> Perhaps worth checking with a xenstore-ls -p, or a xenstore-write attempt
> within a domU, but the vm node should be owned by dom0 and read-only by the
> domU. The recent xenstore permissions fixes should ensure that.
>
> So the patch should be safe and if it's not it's a xend bug that needs
> fixing.
I checked with 'xenstore-ls -p' on my system and could confirm that
the permission of /local/domain/<domid>/vm was set properly
(owned by dom0 and set read-only by domU), apparently since cs 18933.
Thanks,
Yosuke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-20 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 7:00 [PATCH] ioemu: Get guest uuid from xenstore Yosuke Iwamatsu
2009-01-19 18:02 ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-19 18:16 ` Keir Fraser
2009-01-20 2:12 ` Yosuke Iwamatsu [this message]
2009-01-20 10:32 ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-27 11:04 ` Yosuke Iwamatsu
2009-01-27 11:40 ` Ian Jackson
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