Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 00/11] Add a standard authorization framework

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

ping, is anyone able to review the patches in this series. We are
awfully close to soft freeze and KVM forum...

On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 02:04:31PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> An update to
> 
>  v2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04469.html
>  v3: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg05660.html
>  v4: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-08/msg02961.html
> 
> The current network services now support encryption via TLS and in some
> cases support authentication via SASL. In cases where SASL is not
> available, x509 client certificates can be used as a crude authorization
> scheme, but using a sub-CA and controlling who you give certs to. In
> general this is not very flexible though, so this series introduces a
> new standard authorization framework.
> 
> It comes with four initial authorization mechanisms
> 
>  - Simple - an exact username match. This is useful when there is
>    exactly one user that is known to connect. For example when live
>    migrating from one QEMU to another with TLS, libvirt would use
>    the simple scheme to whitelist the TLS cert of the source QEMU.
> 
>  - List - an full access control list, with optional regex matching.
>    This is more flexible and is used to provide 100% backcompat with
>    the existing HMP ACL commands. The caveat is that we can't create
>    these via the CLI -object arg yet.
> 
>  - ListFile - the same as List, but with the rules stored in JSON
>    format in an external file. This avoids the -object limitation
>    while also allowing the admin to change list entries on the file.
>    QEMU uses inotify to notice these changes and auto-reload the
>    file contents. This is likely a good default choice for most
>    network services, if the "simple" mechanism isn't sufficient.
> 
>  - PAM - delegate the username lookup to a PAM module, which opens
>    the door to many options including things like SQL/LDAP lookups.
> 
> A later series that follows will integrate this framework into the VNC,
> NBD, migration, and character device servers.
> 
> Changed in v5:
> 
>  - Rebase to latest git master
> 
> Changed in v4:
> 
>  - Rebase to latest git master
> 
> Changed in v3:
> 
>  - Added docs for object types in qemu-options.hx
>  - Added example CLI syntax in header files
>  - Improved commit messages
> 
> Changed in v2:
> 
>  - Switch to a global shared instance of the file monitor so only
>    a single inotify file descriptor is required
> 
>  - Require all watches to be registered against directories. File
>    watches are useless in Linux, since they are tied to inodes, and
>    so stop working when editors save by doing a tmpfile + rename
>    dance.
> 
>  - Change auth list impl to use a directory based watch instead
>    of filename
> 
>  - Put MTP const-ness fixes in separate patch
> 
>  - Split QOM change off into separate patch
> 
>  - Fix conditionals on Win32 build
> 
> Daniel P. Berrangé (11):
>   util: add helper APIs for dealing with inotify in portable manner
>   qom: don't require user creatable objects to be registered
>   hw/usb: don't set IN_ISDIR for inotify watch in MTP driver
>   hw/usb: fix const-ness for string params in MTP driver
>   hw/usb: switch MTP to use new inotify APIs
>   authz: add QAuthZ object as an authorization base class
>   authz: add QAuthZSimple object type for easy whitelist auth checks
>   authz: add QAuthZList object type for an access control list
>   authz: add QAuthZListFile object type for a file access control list
>   authz: add QAuthZPAM object type for authorizing using PAM
>   authz: delete existing ACL implementation
> 
>  .gitignore                     |   4 +
>  MAINTAINERS                    |  14 ++
>  Makefile                       |  17 +-
>  Makefile.objs                  |  10 ++
>  Makefile.target                |   2 +
>  authz/Makefile.objs            |   7 +
>  authz/base.c                   |  82 +++++++++
>  authz/list.c                   | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  authz/listfile.c               | 284 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  authz/pamacct.c                | 149 ++++++++++++++++
>  authz/simple.c                 | 122 +++++++++++++
>  authz/trace-events             |  18 ++
>  configure                      |  37 ++++
>  crypto/tlssession.c            |  35 ++--
>  crypto/trace-events            |   2 +-
>  hw/usb/dev-mtp.c               | 257 ++++++++++-----------------
>  hw/usb/trace-events            |   2 +-
>  include/authz/base.h           | 112 ++++++++++++
>  include/authz/list.h           | 106 +++++++++++
>  include/authz/listfile.h       | 110 ++++++++++++
>  include/authz/pamacct.h        | 100 +++++++++++
>  include/authz/simple.h         |  84 +++++++++
>  include/qemu/acl.h             |  66 -------
>  include/qemu/filemonitor.h     | 117 ++++++++++++
>  monitor.c                      | 180 ++++++++++++-------
>  qapi/authz.json                |  58 ++++++
>  qapi/qapi-schema.json          |   1 +
>  qemu-options.hx                | 103 +++++++++++
>  qom/object.c                   |  12 +-
>  qom/object_interfaces.c        |  16 +-
>  tests/Makefile.include         |   8 +-
>  tests/test-authz-list.c        | 171 ++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-crypto-tlssession.c |  15 +-
>  tests/test-io-channel-tls.c    |  16 +-
>  ui/vnc-auth-sasl.c             |  23 ++-
>  ui/vnc-auth-sasl.h             |   5 +-
>  ui/vnc-auth-vencrypt.c         |   2 +-
>  ui/vnc-ws.c                    |   2 +-
>  ui/vnc.c                       |  37 ++--
>  ui/vnc.h                       |   4 +-
>  util/Makefile.objs             |   2 +-
>  util/acl.c                     | 179 -------------------
>  util/filemonitor.c             | 315 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  util/trace-events              |   9 +
>  44 files changed, 2671 insertions(+), 539 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 authz/Makefile.objs
>  create mode 100644 authz/base.c
>  create mode 100644 authz/list.c
>  create mode 100644 authz/listfile.c
>  create mode 100644 authz/pamacct.c
>  create mode 100644 authz/simple.c
>  create mode 100644 authz/trace-events
>  create mode 100644 include/authz/base.h
>  create mode 100644 include/authz/list.h
>  create mode 100644 include/authz/listfile.h
>  create mode 100644 include/authz/pamacct.h
>  create mode 100644 include/authz/simple.h
>  delete mode 100644 include/qemu/acl.h
>  create mode 100644 include/qemu/filemonitor.h
>  create mode 100644 qapi/authz.json
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-authz-list.c
>  delete mode 100644 util/acl.c
>  create mode 100644 util/filemonitor.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 

Regards,
Daniel
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