Re: bug in dom create script regarding xenstore permission?

[Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>]

weiming wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded from xen 3.2 to xen 3.4 and found that in 3.4, I can't write 
> xenstore in domU.
> Then, I found that the owner of the /local/domain/<domid> is 0.
> That is:
> When I used xs_get_permissions to get the permission of 
> "/local/domain/1", I got
> (0,0), (1,1)   (dom, perm)
> which implies that dom0 is the owner, and dom1 has read-only perm.
> 
> in xen 3.2, it returns (1,0), which is correct.
> 
> So I guess it might be a bug in the dom create scripts, but I can't find 
> where.

Hi weiming,

it's not a bug. the behavior that you are seeing in 3.2 was a security 
issue. 3.4 got the issue fixed.

Cheers,
-- 
Vincent