Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project

Joerg Roedel
2010-03-24T16:17:13Z

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 05:52:54PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/24/2010 05:50 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> If we go the /proc/<pid>/kvm way then the directory should probably
>> inherit the label from /proc/<pid>/?
>
> That's a security policy. The security people like their policies
> outside the kernel.
>
> For example, they may want a label that allows a trace context to read
> the data, and also qemu itself for introspection.

Hm, I am not a security expert. But is this not only one entity more for
sVirt to handle? I would leave that decision to the sVirt developers.
Does attaching the same label as for the VM resources mean that root
could not access it anymore?

Joerg