Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V4 00/13] Proxy FS driver for VirtFS

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:48:37PM +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:
> From: "M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>
> 
> Pass-through security model in QEMU 9p server needs root privilege to do
> few file operations (like chown, chmod to any mode/uid:gid).  There are two
> issues in pass-through security model
> 
> 1) TOCTTOU vulnerability: Following symbolic links in the server could
> provide access to files beyond 9p export path.
> 
> 2) Running QEMU with root privilege could be a security issue.
> 
> To overcome above issues, following approach is used: A new filesytem
> type 'proxy' is introduced. Proxy FS uses chroot + socket combination
> for securing the vulnerability known with following symbolic links.
> Intention of adding a new filesystem type is to allow qemu to run
> in non-root mode, but doing privileged operations using socket IO.

Fails to build against qemu.git/master (217bfb4):

  CC    libhw64/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.o
hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c:1195:5: error: unknown field ‘parse_opts’ specified in initializer
hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c:1195:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
hw/9pfs/virtio-9p-proxy.c:1195:5: warning: (near initialization for ‘proxy_ops.init’) [enabled by default]

Is this against another public tree?

Stefan