Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.6] block: add an 'iscsi-id' value to match -drive with -iscsi opts

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 01:13:42PM +0200, Peter Lieven wrote:
> Am 22.04.2016 um 12:59 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
> > Am 22.04.2016 um 12:24 hat Daniel P. Berrange geschrieben:
> >> The iSCSI block driver has ability to lookup various options, in
> >> particular authentication info, specified by the separate -iscsi
> >> argument. It currently uses the iSCSI IQN as the ID value for this
> >> lookup, however, this does not work for common iSCSI IQNs as they
> >> contain characters such as ':' which are invalid for use as IDs.
> >>
> >> This adds an optional 'iscsi-id' parameter to the iSCSI block
> >> driver to allow an explicit ID string to be used to reference
> >> the -iscsi arg. For example
> >>
> >>  $QEMU \
> >>    -iscsi id=my_initiator,user=fred,password-secret=sec0 \
> >>    -drive driver=iscsi,iscsi-id=my_initiator,file=iscsi://somehost/iqn/1
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
> > I would consider this a new feature rather than a fix appropriate for
> > -rc4.
> 
> +1
> 
> Its rather late and this might have some side effects that are not obvious.
> If you need to specify different credentials for different targets you can stil
> supply them in the iscsi URL:
> 
> iscsi://username:password@host/iqn/0

Use of that syntax is why CVE-2015-5160 exists because it exposes the
password to any other process on the host which can see the QEMU argv.
-iscsi supports the new password-secret arg that lets us avoid that
flaw.

Regards,
Daniel
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